Aback
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Both words in one sentence
- In Persona 4 in both English and Japanese Rise oddly insists on calling Kanji by his first name without honorific (which he's taken aback by) for no explained reason.
Source: First Name Basis / Video Game -
Ma'am Shock: An oddly translated line results in a strange gender-inversion of this in the English version, where Ringabel is utterly taken aback when the two little girls looking for hairpins call him "Mister".
Source: Video Game / Bravely Default
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Oddly and Aback. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/aback/oddly
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