someone who knows stuff about the Japanese language: what exactly is meant to be conveyed by a title that says something like "Title of Thing ~More Title~"? it seems very common in japanese music titles

oh yeah @typhlosion you're learning japanese, can you explain this thing?

@typhlosion there's an event in the game i'm playing a translation hack of titled "追求 ~風見を逮捕できない理由~"

@Felthry i mean, it comes off to me as similar to how we use subtitles in english and elsewhere

「Dr. Strangelove ~How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb~」

@typhlosion hmm. so it's just like a way of formatting subtitles? I guess that makes sense but it feels like it ought to be more versatile than that

we've seen it used as like.. "Name of Music ~Guitar Version~" which isn't really a subtitle

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@Felthry @typhlosion that's also sth English language titles would use brackets for

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