Talk:Thunder Breathing/@comment-38868511-20190714164911/@comment-43995814-20191002093934

This is because there is a bit of a mistranslation of concept between logographic language and script language isn't it?

雷 (kaminari) actually means "the phenomenon of thunder and lightning"

Though modern conversational Nihonngo would use 雷 (kaminari) as "thunder" and 稲妻 (inazuma - characters mean rice plant and wife - why these 2 is a whole different story) as "lightning".

But seeing as the story is set in Meija era Japan and not modern times, not to mention the techniques themselves is antiquated in the story could only mean the proper and real translation of the form SHOULD be: Breath of Thunder and Lightning. But that's a mouthful(eyeful?) isn't it?