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Old 04-04-2007, 09:44 PM   #21
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were you a japanese major?
Yes, long ago. I particularly got into kanji and classical japanese, although, like everything, i'm a bit rusty. I would be a Japanese professor now if not for the fact that the pay sucks.
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Old 04-04-2007, 09:49 PM   #22
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There's a set of verbs for animate/inanimate objects (not really that simple), so that's probably where the dorky gaijin (is there any other kind?) got it from.
other fun:
when eating:

kuimasu
or kuimasho, this drove the locals crazy if you had one in your apt.

o itadku ni natte orimasu (i think.... i honorificaly, humbly partake)

or serve food, tell your comp: itadake
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Old 04-04-2007, 09:50 PM   #23
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other fun:
when eating:

kuimasu
or kuimasho, this drove the locals crazy if you had one in your apt.

o itadku ni natte orimasu (i think.... i honorificaly, humbly partake)

or serve food, tell your comp: itadake
LOL. You're killing me.
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Old 04-04-2007, 09:51 PM   #24
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There's a set of verbs for animate/inanimate objects (not really that simple), so that's probably where the dorky gaijin (is there any other kind?) got it from.
or it could have an MTC teacher who saw your little essay above, and just said, oh screw it. eats and poos: wa doesn't eat or poo: ga
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i think even more honorrific is:

o itadku ni natte oraremasu.

slang in kyushuu was to end things with batten ga.

so:
itaku batten ga.

domo arrigato gozaimasu batten ga.

boku wa gozaru
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i think even more honorrific is:

o itadku ni natte oraremasu.

slang in kyushuu was to end things with batten ga.

so:
itaku batten ga.

domo arrigato gozaimasu batten ga.

boku wa gozaru
Domo Arrigato Roboto is all the japanese i know.
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Domo Arrigato Roboto is all the japanese i know.
there's all kinds of japanese you just didn't think you knew:

Nice shooting, although pronounced naissu shootingu
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or it could have an MTC teacher who saw your little essay above, and just said, oh screw it. eats and poos: wa doesn't eat or poo: ga
LOL.

MTC Japanese is the most grammatically incorrect form around. That's what happens when you have gaijin who learned from gaijin teaching gaijin. And that's to say nothing of the natives who can't explain why they say what they say.

When I taught there, I was an active iconoclast.
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Old 04-05-2007, 11:46 AM   #29
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From King of the Hill:

"Are you Chinease or Japanease?"

"I'm Laotion"

"The Ocean?"

"No you idiot, I'm from Laos, a small country in Asia"

"Right...so are you Chinease or Japanease?"
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I love Japlish. I cook a lot of Asian food which my wife usually barely tolerates. I was making something that wasn't going well, and she asked what is was called. I said "totaru kurappu" with Japanese pronounciation and up and down inflection. It took her a while but she laughed.
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