Using Japanese honorifics when you aren't Japanese

Nah, just the people with a shallow yet obnoxious obsession with it. Awesome stuff comes out of Japan just like every place else.

Certainly. And when possible, the former is a better idea by far. Making your reader trawl through footnotes to grasp undertones of dialogue is really, really clunky and unprofessional, regardless of what language you're translating to or from.

I realize my family has a thing for aging really gracefully, but I'm still a good 6-8 years older than the people who do it :|

Yeah. I think it's amusing because I get the joke, but it also relies on still keeping Meganekko around. Actually, that joke is about the only reason to keep Meganekko around.

I have a bit of a personal grudge against Mukokuseki, because the one time I actually wanted to tell someone about it and talk about cultural implications I couldn't remember the damn name. Which is kind of the point of why these renames happen. Tsurime / Tareme are the same way, the connection between facial style and personality isn't even remotely unique to anime (or at least they weren't before someone appears to have given the pages an ethnic cleansing), and they already have more obvious redirect names.

edited 11th Jan '12 5:28:24 PM by Pykrete

I see no problem with it, so long as you're not obnoxious about it, or are talking to someone who IS traditionally japanese.

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edited 12th Jan '12 8:11:27 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Maddie, aren't you roughly fourty at maximum?

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

And then abstract and Ex were banned.

edited 12th Jan '12 9:48:45 PM by kay4today

^^ No, dear, I'm 53. "Elderly" starts at "20 years older than I am at the moment I am asked to define 'elderly'".

edited 12th Jan '12 9:52:49 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

O_o

I was not expecting that.

This brings up some questions about some things you've posted in Fetishes. Of course, needless to say, that shan't be discussed here.

edited 12th Jan '12 9:59:04 PM by Exelixi

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

are you my daddy?

NO TREE FOR ME (ALSO LOVES HER BOYFRIEND)

Nope. I'm female.

   Now, ask me if I'm your mummy...   

What the hell do you mean, Exelixi? People over 35 have sex too.

edited 12th Jan '12 10:18:46 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

If that question is asked, everyone who watches Doctor Who will have PTSD-induced flashbacks.

Don't do it, man.

From what I've heard, fellatio becomes less pleasant to perform as the years of the reciever go by. Apparently this is false?

Bleh, I hope this doesn't get thumped. Ah well, this is an important question. One must plan for the future.

edited 12th Jan '12 10:22:03 PM by Exelixi

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

but you just asked the question, dude

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I actually didn't know you were female.

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Exe: That's why I put it in    eviltype   ...

And I've never heard that fellatio is less pleasant to perform on older men. I certainly haven't found it to be so.

But this conversation really should go to Fetishes.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

That's really all I needed to know. Please don't kill me.

edited 12th Jan '12 10:36:29 PM by Exelixi

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

Who?

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No, just the Doctor. </crappy pun>

edited 13th Jan '12 8:08:03 AM by GameSpazzer

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It really does. It's a little amusing although a little annoying that something like "desu" has become a meme.

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Desu is everywhere, desu.

I was making fun of the people who will call anyone who mentions anything even remotely Japanese ever a weaboo.

We don't get that too much here, luckily.

edited 13th Jan '12 5:36:41 PM by BlixtySlycat

go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine

To be fair, the English language has made a bit of a habit of taking foreign words for meanings that don't translate well enough into English anyway. That being said, there is a difference between using it to clarify what you mean and doing it just for the hell of it.

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Thread Hop: I can understand it when someone being referred to with Japanese honorifics is Japanese or has a Japanese-sounding name. Otherwise, it's probably just for kicks or practise.

I do it to fuck around at times. Or when writing fanfiction for a select few works. Marimite without the honorifics is...odd and not right looking.

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Yeah, I mean if you're in a situation where your audience is actually speaking Japanese that's something different.

Just talking to someone who happens to be Japanese though...really depends. The Japanese exchange students I've met are typically really chill when a foreigner tries and botches it, but I still would be very leery of it.

Yeah, don't use honorifics to a Japanese person when the person is in English, you're in America, and the situation has nothing to do with Japan.

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I might just go around one day saying X-san and Y-sensei just to see how people react.

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Here in Korea we uses honorifics in a highly similar way in Japan. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Japanese honorifics were inspired by Korean ones.

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