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04-19-2004, 09:18 PM
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yaoi acronym for yama-nashi, ochi-nashi, imi-nashi "no climax, no resolution, no meaning", a semi-derogatory catchall term applied to applied to stories focussing on male homosexuality, particularly the non-stop hot-and-heavy kind as opposed to the more romantic shounen ai. Sometimes rendered by certain young ladies of my acquaintaince [the target demographic for this sort of matter] as yamete! atashi (no) oshiri (ga) ittai!, roughly "stoppit already, my arse hurts", which albeit linguistically incorrect has the virtue of describing the content quite clearly.
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Uuuuhhhh...I get the first part, but when you drift into yamete atshi whatever, you've got me lost. And what the hell is shounen ai? Let's see here, I know only one of the Japanese words you just mentioned (no). 
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04-19-2004, 09:31 PM
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yamete! atashi (no) oshiri (ga) ittai!
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LOL! I never knew that's what it meant. I'm gonna tell all the fangirls! It's gramatically incorrect in Japanese though (it should be "watashi" for a male, but I guess that would mess up the acronym)
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04-19-2004, 09:45 PM
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Rob:
It's not grammatically incorrect; it's just girlish, which I think is part of the point. O-shiri is also a girlish way of softening down shiri. If you imagine that phrase being said by a stereotypical 'femme' gay man, it'll make more sense.
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He explained it (i.e. stoppit, my ass hurts). Shounen ai would be the more romantically-based stories, while yaoi would be more focused on the sex.
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04-19-2004, 10:05 PM
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OK. But now all I want to know is what watashi means! Man I feel like a hardcore LOTR fan that wants to learn Elvish. Maybe I'll just back off the Japanese words...
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04-19-2004, 10:10 PM
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Watashi is just the masculine was of saying "atashi"... or "I"
Or at least that's the way I learnt it |
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04-19-2004, 10:26 PM
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Watashi is used to mean "I" and it's about the most connotation-free way to do that. Of course Japanese has few real pronouns [omae "honorably in front of me", kisama "my lord", boku "your servant" -- all of these are used as pronouns, while the actual pronoun kare "he" is used to mean "boyfriend"], and this is no exception: it is a contraction of watakushi which is also used [mostly in formal speech, or by highborn women] to mean "I" but actually denotes "private", "one's own things", "one's own affairs"; it can be still furhter contracted to the laconic washi, used by primarily by old men at the present day.
Tony: now you know how the rest of us feel. On the other hand, if you'll take a Japanese class and watch in Japanese with subtitles you can count your anime purchases as an "educational expense"...
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04-19-2004, 10:31 PM
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Rob, Tony:
There are several ways to say 'I' in Japanese:
Watakushi - quite formal
Watashi - semi-formal, these days pretty gender neutral
Atashi - feminine, not formal
Boku - masculine, not formal
Ore - masculine, pretty rough
Washi - not formal, but old and provincial
It should be noted that overuse of watashi is frowned upon.
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04-19-2004, 10:57 PM
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John: You are just scaring me now...
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On the other hand, if you'll take a Japanese class and watch in Japanese with subtitles you can count your anime purchases as an "educational expense"...
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Eh. I'd rather just keep to the dubs. That and I'd rather learn a language that I can actually use here in America.
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html
So, with tomorrow being DVD Day (TM), do you plan on getting anything? Personally, I'm gonna get that new Fear Factory album, Archetype, at Best Buy for only $8. It does come with a bonus DVD, so it counts for DVD Day.
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04-19-2004, 11:18 PM
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All: Whew, I'm glad I'm not the only one. It was beginning to look like I was some crazy person for liking the stuff. Its usually very happy and upbeat music and I like that, but I also love the sobering English version of the Fruits Basket themes. I think they are actually better than the Japanese counterparts! Usually I listen to AOR (think Journey, Starship and Foreigner type bands), hard rock (Whitesnake/Def Leppard type bands), power metal (Judas Priest, Iced Earth stuff), prog (Queensryche, Fates Warning) and more hip hop and R&B than I ever imagined. My BF listens to that so I'm starting to get used to some of it. Atleast the more radio friendly stuff.
Fleetwood Mac is pretty good, and I have a wide tolerance for alot of 80s music (anything from Duran Duran to Kenny Rogers, George Strait to George Michael and back again). 70s hard rock is alright too, especially Deep Purple, Rainbow and UFO. 
As for MMORPGs.... I was into Ultima Online for awhile back around 98-99 somewhere in there, and played it obsessively. Whether or not I would pay $50 for a game and another $10 a month to play it again is debatable. True Fantasy for the XBox intrigues me as does the Warcraft Worlds game but FFXI just doesn't look impressive enough for me to dip into that world again. It sucks being a newbie in those games because you get picked on, PK'd and generally kicked around until you learn the ropes. Kind of a humiliating experience all around. Then you become all powerful and start kicking around the ppl that did it to you in the beginning. LOL
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04-19-2004, 11:28 PM
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DVD Day! I'm picking up Master and Commander and maybe Win A Date with Tad Hamilton! Its recieved some decent reviews and looks like a fun movie. I could use some fun after going to a funeral today and all the work politics going on. Ugh. Target here I come! Right at 8:15 AM! Now off to work I go!
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04-19-2004, 11:29 PM
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I'm pretty fluent in spanish, of course that's mandatory if you live in South Florida for the majority of your life
Me llamo Roberto, como te llamas?
Yo no gustar hablamos espanol en a HTF Anime Discussion, hablamos ingles o nihingo, por favor!
It's only useful for watching spanish gameshows here in Orlando, but in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area (where my parents live), it's very much needed. When I used to work down there, I was constantly talking to people that didn't speak a word of english.
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