Mr 3: it never occurred to me to connect his speech quirk with money, but I could see how that might work. By itself, -gane or -kane are fairly meaningless filler phrases (the Swedish translation is a pretty close parallel), but when it's repeated every single time, it really starts to stand out. "kane" sounds like the word meaning money (金, kane), so it could easily sound to a Japanese speaker like he's ending all of his sentences with that word.
(Random, but when I first noticed the speech quirk while watching the anime, the phrase that stood out to me was the -gane rather than the -kane, and I thought it had something to do with wire (=harigane in Japanese), because the 3 on his head looks like a coil of wire. I'm sure this was a complete misunderstanding on my part, but it shows how my head tried to translate a meaningless sentence-ending phrase into an actual word.)
Isgubben -- too cute!! (I might just call him that from now on.)
Oh, good point that Robin's attention would have been caught by the D in Luffy's name (of course, the reader at this point has no idea that the D means anything). And yes, definitely not reporting to Crocodile, so she's playing a lone game of some sort.
I figure she was never in the habit of sharing information with people like Crocodile if it wasn't necessary to guarantee her survival. Information is power, always.
A lot depends on whether Nothing Island is actually on the route to Alabasta or not (I don't think that is clarified in ch. 129). If it isn't, the crew would have been up s### creek without a paddle (literally, LOLOL Robin), even if they weren't in any immediate danger. If it is, then one could argue that Robin was actually trying to help, since she presumably knew that they would be stuck on Little Garden for at least a year (she knows the book Brag Men, after all), if not killed before they could ever leave it.
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Date: 2012-07-03 08:30 pm (UTC)(Random, but when I first noticed the speech quirk while watching the anime, the phrase that stood out to me was the -gane rather than the -kane, and I thought it had something to do with wire (=harigane in Japanese), because the 3 on his head looks like a coil of wire. I'm sure this was a complete misunderstanding on my part, but it shows how my head tried to translate a meaningless sentence-ending phrase into an actual word.)
Isgubben -- too cute!! (I might just call him that from now on.)
Oh, good point that Robin's attention would have been caught by the D in Luffy's name (of course, the reader at this point has no idea that the D means anything). And yes, definitely not reporting to Crocodile, so she's playing a lone game of some sort.
I figure she was never in the habit of sharing information with people like Crocodile if it wasn't necessary to guarantee her survival. Information is power, always.
A lot depends on whether Nothing Island is actually on the route to Alabasta or not (I don't think that is clarified in ch. 129). If it isn't, the crew would have been up s### creek without a paddle (literally, LOLOL Robin), even if they weren't in any immediate danger. If it is, then one could argue that Robin was actually trying to help, since she presumably knew that they would be stuck on Little Garden for at least a year (she knows the book Brag Men, after all), if not killed before they could ever leave it.