Using Japanese honorifics when you aren't Japanese

I'm not Japanese. I don't speak Japanese. I'm not in Japan.

So I never use them. That would just be sad.

I've just realized that "Nakama" has been changed into True Companions...

~cries tears of happiness~

You mean the trope?

I think MegaNeko can also be changed, even though it's funny.

Anyway, as long as the context is clear, it would work. Depends on who you speak to.

It what

This is a cause for celebration. Mead for everyone! Or at least mead for everyone who has mead in their house or has cash to buy mead!

Mead at 0604 after being up since 0900 yesterday may be...unwise.

It might help you sleep, though.

I've got to get the train home in an hour!

Ah. Yeah, that may not be a great idea then. Pity. Perhaps a toast of some sort of caffeinated beverage?

Yes. A big mug of neat caffeine. That should keep me going until the end of the shift.

Did that Mukosusekikikiki or whatever (Japanese People are White in Anime) thing ever get renamed?

Nope. But Mukokuseki is a more Japanese-exclusive trope, so there may be some inclination to keep it as it is for now.

edited 10th Jan '12 10:35:54 PM by Pyrite

I now want to hear a thick-accented Scottish person throwing some Gratuitous Japanese into everyday chatter. That would be trippy, dude.

edited 11th Jan '12 4:22:42 AM by TheBatPencil

We got rid of Nakama?

About time.

A lot of people who are interested in a particular culture will pick up some of their language/colloquialisms. An American interested in British culture might start saying "lift" instead of "elevator," someone interested in French culture might start saying "avec" instead of "with," and someone who isn't Japanese might start using Japanese honorifics. It only gets annoying when it's a constant thing.

the desu meme shall be remembered
badly

Or a non-Southern person might start saying "y'all".

What the crap does "desu" even mean?

Ιt's the Japanese verb 'to be'.

...in that case, that makes about as much sense as the word "the" becoming a meme.

Japanese sentences usually require the verb at the end of a sentence. Desu is also used in some of the most polite forms of speech, so it's the word the average weeaboo hears most. Hence, SPAM AD NAUSEUM.

Its use is redundant anyway.

For a more in-depth explanation as to how the hell that became a meme, see here. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/desu

edited 11th Jan '12 6:53:33 AM by Pyrite

...okay, it's funnier than I thought, but still very >_<

My username on a lot of websites is "Night-san." Night being my fursona's name; a long time ago I used to administrate an RP forum, and some of the more weeaboo of the kids on there took to adding the "-san." Changed my username to "Night-san" for the heck of it, and it sorta stuck. Some of my irl friends started calling me that too, even though they moved out of the weeaboo phase years and years ago. Didn't think much of it until rather recently; I just use the name out of habit. I'm trying to move away from it now, though- partly because many sites don't allow "Night-san" as a username, partly because I don't want the honorific tacked on. I'm starting to go with "Ventisia" more often now, like on here; it's not my fursona, it's another one of my characters, but it's a unique username on most sites, so it works.

@odd1 "The" would be a meme, too, if a famous person or something said "the-the-the-the".

Porky Pig.

MEME TIME!