I'm sorry, but I don't like seeing honorifics. I know it's really nothing to get annoyed by, but still, reading about Aku-pyon or Roku-me, it just clashes with the rest of the fanfic. How am I supposed to get off to Cloud-tan, Sephiroth-niisan, or Aerith-temee if I keep getting double-taking at the gratutious Japanese? I understand why people do it ( Read more... )

"To sweatdrop" wasn't, isn't, and never will be a proper verb. If you really want that sort of reaction in your writing, show it through dialogue or the description of the person's tone of voice, not through the word "sweatdrop". It's a reaction best expressed visually than in writing.

God I haven't posted in forever. How is everyone? 8D

First of all...

The honorific  -chan is an intimate honorific and I highly doubt that any guy would immediately refer to a girl as -chan and have the girl comfortable with it right away, without even knowing his name. Especially Xaldin. I doubt Xaldin would use -chan on Namine right away or even at all. Honestly. Your writing isn't even that bad; ( Read more... )

And sweet.  Technically, this is from one of my random travails into the Naruto section of the Pit (I know, I know) but I don't belong to a Naruto community, and it applies to every fandom.

Look.  I think I could even take Sakura Wanahakarugi as an OC name.  But they've changed tactics.  Or, they've half got the message:

"Erizabesu Banieru" is not.  ( Read more... )

So, as everyone and their respective cousins know, the Chaser names are in Latin and correspond to the Trio's names in Japanese. Even if I disagree with some of the choices; Ven should totally be Cae. At first, I was so psyched about this, because it's...damn near half-educational! And I could totally one-up everyone on name-meanings! And no more ( Read more... )

This is DEFINITELY not just in Kingdom Hearts, but I'm finding more and more of these abominations in KH.

Here are the rules if you want to add a French touch to your fic:

1. GET YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGES STRAIGHT. "De lea Cruz" is a SPANISH NAME! The proper FRENCH name would be "Due la Croix!" DE LA CROIX!!!! WITH AN X!!!! I'll be fine if you ( Read more... )

Well, hello. This is probably my first and only rant that I'll post, but I've had these thoughts rolling around in my head, and would love to just get them out.
( Kairi Characterization, and fangirl japanese )

Fandom ( Read more... )

Dear fantard,

I understand Japanese is currently a "cool" language to know in this fandom. Your stupid abuse of it aside, I would like to, as a student of the Japanese language, point out some mistakes you have made.

*ahem*

OTAKU DOES NOT MEAN IDIOT.Unless by idiot, you mean a hopeless anime/video game fan with no life such as yourself, your ( Read more... )