It says I can.. it also says I can throw a party... -throws beer cans anywhere-
Anyway, I just came to say GOD BLESS YOU for that koi=carp essay over on yuki-eiri.com.
YES.
I'll admit that I used to like fanfics that had random Japanese words, 'cuz I'm a language geek and enjoy any other language than English being thrown about everywhere like confetti.
BUT.
Once I started actually learning all the languages, I've come to appreciate the subtleties of all of them. Especially Japanese. I'm only on Japanese I and I can already tell this is gonna take a while.
I will confess I have, and still do use certain phrases of Japanese in my English fanfictions, which I should have mentioned in the essay, only I didn't learn about it until later. The reason being, that there are no direct translations between certain words, such as "nii-sama" (Honorable Older Brother) and the English language, as "Big Brother" doesn't have the same formal respect
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YAY, SOMEONE UNDERSTANDSneerettMarch 14 2008, 22:10:43 UTC
I started learning Spanish and German last year--from books and my mom--and I started learning Japanese by myself over a year ago. This year (freshman year) I started taking official Japanese classes, and next year I plan on starting French and German. I wanna learn Russian and Chinese (and then hopefully get back to Spanish again) in college.
Yeah. I wanna be a translator when I grow up. :3
And OH DANG, you called your mom obaa-san? Or is that a typo?
My mom would be on my ass if I called her that and she knew what it meant. O_O
Re: YAY, SOMEONE UNDERSTANDSsaitainaMarch 14 2008, 22:15:22 UTC
Yes, I call my mother and one of her friends obaa-san, and she knows what it means...she usually glares at me when I call her that. Though most of the time I call here "mere", which (if I reacall correctly) is the French for mother.
Other phrases that pop-up in daily life: Bloody hell, aho (idiot - rude), pere (father), tante (aunt), doshtite (a bad mangling of Japanese that the dog has taken to mean move...don't even remember the original word I was attempting to say), -kun (usually added after one of my cats names), onii-chan (means older brother but is also the name of one of my cats because I was bored while naming her), nani (what, usually said when startled)
Re: YAY, SOMEONE UNDERSTANDSsaitainaMarch 15 2008, 02:20:00 UTC
I had yelled it, trying to pronounce something else (I can't remember but it was a curse of some kind, simular to 'shit!' or the like), and the dog suddenly moved across the room. Unsure if he was moving because of my yelling, I tried it again, and he moved again. So now it's become an all purpose use word that basically means 'move' or 'get out of there/the way'.
The same dog also uses the 'get' comand to mean 'lay down, move sidewaise so someone can pass, or don't touch', he can actually apply the word to the situation, such as moving if we're in a hallway, laying down if he's in the bedroom, or stopping whatever mess he's making if I want him out of something.
My cats now know 'poulet' to mean 'come get free chicken' as I was testing the word out while cooking and dropped a piece. They now come running if I say it because that means I have chicken (which means I can't use it in conversation any longer or else I'm surrounded by cats).
Re: YAY, SOMEONE UNDERSTANDSneerettMarch 15 2008, 12:07:08 UTC
Hm... unfortunately my dogs aren't multilingual. They're rednecks. They respond to commands like "git" for "get out of the room" and other such things... In fact, I just yelled that at them now.
Ooh, Pepper just glared at me. She doesn't like being kicked out. XD
It says I can.. it also says I can throw a party... -throws beer cans anywhere-
Anyway, I just came to say GOD BLESS YOU for that koi=carp essay over on yuki-eiri.com.
YES.
I'll admit that I used to like fanfics that had random Japanese words, 'cuz I'm a language geek and enjoy any other language than English being thrown about everywhere like confetti.
BUT.
Once I started actually learning all the languages, I've come to appreciate the subtleties of all of them. Especially Japanese. I'm only on Japanese I and I can already tell this is gonna take a while.
So yeah. Thanks. -worships at your feet-
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Yeah. I wanna be a translator when I grow up. :3
And OH DANG, you called your mom obaa-san? Or is that a typo?
My mom would be on my ass if I called her that and she knew what it meant. O_O
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Other phrases that pop-up in daily life: Bloody hell, aho (idiot - rude), pere (father), tante (aunt), doshtite (a bad mangling of Japanese that the dog has taken to mean move...don't even remember the original word I was attempting to say), -kun (usually added after one of my cats names), onii-chan (means older brother but is also the name of one of my cats because I was bored while naming her), nani (what, usually said when startled)
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And... doshtite? How did that come to be "move"? I MUST KNOW NOW.
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The same dog also uses the 'get' comand to mean 'lay down, move sidewaise so someone can pass, or don't touch', he can actually apply the word to the situation, such as moving if we're in a hallway, laying down if he's in the bedroom, or stopping whatever mess he's making if I want him out of something.
My cats now know 'poulet' to mean 'come get free chicken' as I was testing the word out while cooking and dropped a piece. They now come running if I say it because that means I have chicken (which means I can't use it in conversation any longer or else I'm surrounded by cats).
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Ooh, Pepper just glared at me. She doesn't like being kicked out. XD
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