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In Black Clover, at least in the anime, Asta frequently shortens します (shimasu)
into しゃす (shasu). Is that supposed to be indicative of an accent or dialect,
or is there some other reason for him to do that?


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Is Asta speaking a specific dialect?


Asta's manner of speaking isn't dialect and moreso shortened impolite slang
rather than an actual dialect change, which would be visible with differences
in vocabulary and verbage.


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In short, he is speaking colloquially in slang, not ant dialect in particular.

For an example: `ナシャス。`

オナシャス (onashyasu) means お願いします (onegaishimasu, lit. please)。 「お願いします
(onegaishimasu)」

→「おねがいしゃす (onegaishyasu)」

→「おねいしゃす (oneishyasu)」

→「オネシャス (ONESHIYASU)」

→「オナシャス (ONASHIYASU)」

This is like shortening "please" to "pls" or "plx".

This speech pattern is suppose to outline how crudely (or uncouthly) Asta
speaks, in contrast to the rest of the other Knights.


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