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check this out! http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/ read it all its soo funny!:thumb:

agentsmith700 wrote:check this out! http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/ read it all its soo funny!:thumb:

That. Was. Great.

I know!

*on floor laphing*

that is way to funny. but I am still going to learn it.

agentsmith700 wrote:check this out! http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/ read it all its soo funny!:thumb:

Yes that is a little funny , but my hart tells me to go and learn it and tell the good news to them.

"Pocky", which is a stick with different frostings on it, the flavors of which include Sawdust and Strawberry.

this is one of the bigest jpanese jokes I have ever read s i had to post it!

Yeah I remember posting that one. I got mildly chewed out by Shooraijin for it. Be interesting to see how many links are floating around the site...

I guess I'm one of the few who didn't find it that funny (though the commentary on Japanese culture was pretty accurate. O.o). Oh well. *wanders off*

I quit reading about halfway down. >.> so you're not the only one, Kodai-san.

the section on your classmates is the one that I laughed at the most

same with me.

It was funny.. but i feel bad for anyone who is japanese.. that was a harsh joke..

I did laugh really hard about the anime freak.. I am SOOOOOOOO Guilty of that.. I call on my friends, who doesn't even care about anime or Japanese, "chan" all the time!! She doesn't mind tho..but now that i think about it.. i probably look like such a NERD!! Oh well.. I guess i am a nerd.. *skips off(

I don't wear my Cowboy Bebop shirt every third day to art class. Really. I mean it. And I totally didn't wear it to the Cherry Blossom Festival and get pathetically excited when I saw a passing dude in an Evangelion shirt.
Now that I've got that out of the way, funny stuff.

Oh man, I laughed through the whole thing. Yeah, I know I'm a dork. I'm comfortable with that. The Japanese word "otaku" roughly means "dork", right?

it means unhealthily obsessed, I believe, and a derrogatory term to boot.

Kokoro Daisuke wrote:it means unhealthily obsessed, I believe, and a derrogatory term to boot.

Everywhere but America I guess...

Whee! Didn't it come from a word meaning "house" because the person stayed in their house all day doing whatever it was?

Actually it was coined by a writer of a lolicon magazine in Japan who took it to describe the phenomenon of the loser geek. They may have used the term to adress each other, but the term stuck after this article (1983).

Story can be found in "Dreamland Japan."

AnimeHeretic wrote:Everywhere but America I guess...

And people wonder why I usually don't refer to myself as an otaku...

my friends and I have a joke on how we all are closet otaku's hahahaha

are there any Japanese people here at this forum?

I wear my kenshin shirt to school sometimes.. and sometimes i wear this shirt that i created my self of one of my charas..

So... an otaku is a bad thing? I also thought it meant assassin.. but i just heard that while skimming the webby a while back.. lol

otaku is kinda the equivalent of the 35-year-old male who lives in his mother's basement and avidly collects comics, anime, etc.

very funny, but I will still learn Japanese one day!! Neko ni oyogimasu!

same here

I still wanna learn japanese

Learning Japanese doesn't make you an otaku. It's an obsessive attachment to your hobby (and in Japan, you can be an otaku over many things, including computers, electonics, etc), to the point that it becomes the top priority in your life that everything revolves around.

I've actually been in that stage in my life, obsessing because it was Tuesday and I didn't have enough money to buy a new DVD and pay for gas to get to work until payday. I have a more normal interest now, but you can get pretty low with an otaku level obsession...

I've taken Japanese for around 3 years and found it very rewarding. Never accomplished my dream of fluency, but it's been a good bit of knowledge to have.

I'm Japanese, but my family came here several generations back. I personally don't find learning Japanese as difficult as the article makes it out to be. >.>; It's a lot of memorization, but that's the hardest part, I think. =/ The language is definitely less wonky than English.

[quote="Kokoro Daisuke"]I'm Japanese, but my family came here several generations back. I personally don't find learning Japanese as difficult as the article makes it out to be. >.>]
It's more logical (Wonky? I guess I'm old and out of date with that term) than ENglish, and I'm glad that English is my native language, since it looks like it would be hard to learn as a second. It's the kanji that makes Japanese hard (well that and politeness levels).

**on the floor laughing** I'm already learning it though it was quite humorous