My first find

[harkdashark]

Greetings fellow onlookers of the warcraftsues community, this is going to be my first sue post on the site, but what I found is some typical kawaii desu catgirl demon possession... Thingy... Or what I can clearly make out from it...

Comments

[eridaelectric]

I don't really watch anime (I've seen some, I like some, but I don't have a particular attachment to it). I know Kawaii is just "cute" or something like that, but what is "desu"?

[blazecheetah]

Wiki puts it more eloquently than I do: "A Japanese copula (です), or word used to grammatically link a subject and predicate". It's typically used at the end of a sentence, and "cutsey-wootsy" characters in anime tend to overuse the word. Prime example is Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden, who's so famous for overusing desu that there's a meme of it. I think she might also pronounce it wrong? idk i'm not weeaboo enough to know that I guess, rofl.

[quinsisdos]

The "u" part of "desu" is usually silent or mostly silent in normal conversation, much in the same way that verbs that end in -masu will usually be pronouced "-mas". "Cute" characters will always retain the pronunciation or place emphasis on the "u" in "desu" and other words like it, it's some sort of linguistic trick that's supposed to illustrate cuteness or innocence.

Personally, I find the existance of this in a linguistic sense fascinating, but I find actual usage of it to be really grating for some reason.

[eridaelectric]

That is interesting.

[eridaelectric]

OMG.

I had no idea that was so long, I managed to get to 2:30 minutes before stopping it.

[necti_citlali]

I made it to 26 seconds :D

Just to add... "desu" is used as a formal way of speaking. So, if you're talking to friends or close family members, you wouldn't use "desu."