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Scathach posted:All I can think of is that it would be ridiculous, inappropriate, and hilarious things to hear. Not to mention ridiculous speech impediments to boot.
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Not to mention not actually knowing the language in any real sense.
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The fact that they refer to themselves as otakus shows that they know very little about the Japanese language. In other news,the other day I had a friend post this:    I apologize for not expanding some of the text, but I didn't realize until after they deleted their post. For full disclosure, I am the yellow.
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Dec 27, 2013 06:24
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The new Pope is my favorite Pope, he sends all my conservative Catholic friends into a rage.
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Saagonsa posted:I would love to hear someone try to speak Japanese from what they learned watching anime. My buddy was a TA for Japanese and said there were always a few in the introductory class. Evidently, the Japanese spoken in anime is completely different from normal conversational Japanese. So they'd end up either sounding like they came out of a Samurai drama or talking like a manic child. Most of them would drop out pretty quickly but those who stayed on were loving insufferable. I should ask him for some stories.
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Shbobdb posted:My buddy was a TA for Japanese and said there were always a few in the introductory class. Evidently, the Japanese spoken in anime is completely different from normal conversational Japanese. Not only that, but if they've been watching commercially available anime, the translations are usually localized to make sense of idioms that may be otherwise difficult to understand, involve puns, or cultural references that anyone but the most dedicated Nipponophile wouldn't get. The better ones at least have translation notes somewhere (not the "Keikaku means plan" variety) to explain, but that would require actually trying to read and learn. Instead, they just decide that what they heard matches up to the subtitles (or, worse, the English dialogue from the American TV release) and spout off phrases like it was the goddamn meme thread. If they've been watching fansubs, God help you. Took one fansub group half a season of one show to fix their translation of the theme song. They never went back and fixed the subs in the prior releases, either. Kugyou no Tenshi has a new favorite as of 07:34 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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Dec 27, 2013 07:32
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I'd love to see these people go to Japan and actually try to get around on their own. Bumbling manchildren spewing ridiculous words.
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Dec 27, 2013 07:45
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I feel like the same kind of people who think they can learn Japanese from anime would also not recognize how stilted dialogue is in lots of American shows, too, so maybe they don't even realize people on TV talk differently than people in real life
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Dec 27, 2013 07:57
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My Tulpamancer summons a level 3 Road Buddha.
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Dec 27, 2013 07:59
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Scathach posted:
Coincidentally, does anyone have that Tumblr post where some guy stood up a body pillow in front of a hotplate of taco meat and said something like "My wife is the best, she made me tacos <3"?
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Dec 27, 2013 08:00
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Saagonsa posted:I would love to hear someone try to speak Japanese from what they learned watching anime. I happen to know how to say "You're already dead." with perfect inflection.
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Dec 27, 2013 10:38
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Saagonsa posted:I would love to hear someone try to speak Japanese from what they learned watching anime. I took two semesters of Japanese in college and at least two thirds of the class was made up of people like this. It's loving painful to listen to. Their pronunciation is horrible and childish. Imagine if somebody learned English solely from watching Teletubbies and Spongebob.
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Dec 27, 2013 11:01
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Elderbean posted:The only way to instill respect is to hit your kids. Also, the guy who posted this is generally a massive assshole. The one and only time I had him over he got way too drunk and pissed in my kitchen sink. He never apologised. Ooh, I just saw this too. This woman's parents were abusive and she got into meth and had her first kid at 17 so idk. I guess you could say she respects others cause she's really nice, but she never respected herself much. 
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Dec 27, 2013 11:54
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Shbobdb posted:My buddy was a TA for Japanese and said there were always a few in the introductory class. Evidently, the Japanese spoken in anime is completely different from normal conversational Japanese. So they'd end up either sounding like they came out of a Samurai drama or talking like a manic child. This is magical  Most of the Japanese I know is stupid phrases I picked up from anime, but I'm also aware enough to know that no real person talks like that  I went to enough conventions as a teenager to know that there are plenty of people who aren't that aware, though, and it's pretty fabulous. You haven't really touched poop until you've had a conversation in person, in English, with a person who peppers their sentences with words like "tsundere" and "baka".
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Thread posted:Japanese talk So true. The fansubs thing is true, and it's just awful to talk to people who think they know Japanese from anime. I'm no scholar, but I actually have taken classes and it's just... a language. Also, regarding the Spongebob thing, there was a comic about a Japanese neckbeard treating Sponegbob the way ~otaku~ treat anime... But I can't find it right now.
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Serperoth posted:Also, regarding the Spongebob thing, there was a comic about a Japanese neckbeard treating Sponegbob the way ~otaku~ treat anime... But I can't find it right now. 
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Dec 27, 2013 15:29
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Remember Water of the Womb mom? She's back, and she's out for revenge!
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I took two semesters of Japanese in college and at least two thirds of the class was made up of people like this. It's loving painful to listen to. Their pronunciation is horrible and childish. Is this why any native English speaker makes their voice all squeaky in YouTube videos when they are "speaking Japanese"?
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Dec 27, 2013 16:12
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Grem posted:The new Pope is my favorite Pope, he sends all my conservative Catholic friends into a rage. By saying stuff that Jesus said, more or less. 
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Dec 27, 2013 16:34
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 "my generation" The guy who posted this is 20.
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Clochette posted:
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Guilty Spork posted:The Pledge of Allegiance is also up there with "Merry Christmas" for being something certain conservatives are Very Angry about a largely made-up liberal objection to. And where people are objecting to it, finding a loyalty oath to the country recited rote by schoolchildren who barely understand it to be creepy when you stop and think about it is pretty normal. Yeah it's always fun to post about in a thread full of people from other countries because they usually get super creeped out when you explain the whole school pledge ritual thing.
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Kimmalah posted:Yeah it's always fun to post about in a thread full of people from other countries because they usually get super creeped out when you explain the whole school pledge ritual thing. Wait, you were expected to do that every morning? Once a year or once a term I can kinda understand, but every morning?! Sorry US Goons, but that is kinda creepy.
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Dec 27, 2013 19:31
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OldMemes posted:Wait, you were expected to do that every morning? Once a year or once a term I can kinda understand, but every morning?! Sorry US Goons, but that is kinda creepy. Yep. Daily, in most schools. In some places the principal or a designated student would lead it over the intercom, even when I was a grade school student it felt distinctly Orwellian.
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Pssh, HIS GENERATION did it with hands over hearts. Earlier generations kept the original Bellamy salute, and didn't give a poo poo who they offended. loving kids these days.
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Dec 27, 2013 19:42
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I tried to explain once, to a teacher who was mad that I didn't do the pledge, that it was stupid to be compelled to pledge allegiance to a symbol of freedom. Yeah, I was a super edgy teenager.
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Guilty Spork posted:The Pledge of Allegiance is also up there with "Merry Christmas" for being something certain conservatives are Very Angry about a largely made-up liberal objection to. And where people are objecting to it, finding a loyalty oath to the country recited rote by schoolchildren who barely understand it to be creepy when you stop and think about it is pretty normal. I always used to start it by saying "I pledge of allegiance to the flag..." and a lot of other kids did it too. It wasn't on purpose, we simply didn't think about the words and thoughtlessly recited back what we thought we heard.
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OldMemes posted:Wait, you were expected to do that every morning? Once a year or once a term I can kinda understand, but every morning?! Sorry US Goons, but that is kinda creepy. Yes, every morning following along with the principal facing toward an American flag (EVERY room had a flag in it) with our hands over our hearts. At the time I didn't think about it, but in retrospect it is really loving weird. Of course like the other posters mentioned, we were kids and didn't really even understand what the hell we were saying, just kind of mumbling along because if you didn't say you'd get in trouble. I honestly only knew what about half the words to the pledge even were as a kid - like when you only know part of a song's lyrics and just fill in the rest by imitating what the words sound like. Pretty much everyone quit by middle or high school once the fear of getting in trouble wore off. Teachers of course would have a fit like we were personally destroying ARE FREEDOMS by not participating.
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In my school from grades 1-6 or so, we assembled in the hall to sing random songs out of a book we all got handed out. It was boring as poo poo, and most just mumbled along. No hymns that I can recall, but it was a bit odd thinking back. We all hoped for the ones with the least verses.
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When I went to high school in Texas, we'd only say the pledge at the beginning of the week, but in elementary school, we said it every day, as well as the Texas pledge. I couldn't remember the words to that one, so I looked it up online, and turns out they added "one state under God" to it in 2007 
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Scathach posted:All I can think of is that it would be ridiculous, inappropriate, and hilarious things to hear. It pretty much is. I failed my Japanese 101 class, and even I could tell just how terrible it is when a "self-taught" speaker tries to say anything beyond a single word (sometimes even just that). It's even better when they try to speak to a native Japanese speaker (even more so if it's a woman), since they just have to show how much
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I went to Catholic school so we added a little pro-life line about "life and liberty for all... born and unborn." It was mind blowing when I was in high school and finally realized what I'd been saying for years
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Clochette posted:I always used to start it by saying "I pledge of allegiance to the flag..." and a lot of other kids did it too. It wasn't on purpose, we simply didn't think about the words and thoughtlessly recited back what we thought we heard.
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Guilty Spork posted:I went several years before I realized that it was "And under the republic for which it stands" "To the republic" actually. Though to be honest, I thought it was "One nation, under God, individual" for a long time.
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MizPiz posted:It pretty much is. I failed my Japanese 101 class, and even I could tell just how terrible it is when a "self-taught" speaker tries to say anything beyond a single word (sometimes even just that). It's even better when they try to speak to a native Japanese speaker (even more so if it's a woman), since they just have to show how much If you can stomach the awkwardness, here's the video. The part where she shares with the other hosts about the dumbass who spoke to her is around 2:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLawAtIpyg
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This just popped up on my feed with a picture of a crying soldier. Too lazy to screenshot it.  quote:***A MUST SHARE*** A young man working in the army was constantly humiliated because he believed in God. One day the captain wanted to humiliate him before the troops. He called the young man and said: Young man come here, take the key and go and park the Jeep in front. the young man replied: I cannot drive! The captain said: Well then ask for assistance of your God! Show us that He exist! The young man takes the key and walked to the vehicle and begins to pray He parks the jeep at the place PERFECTLY well as the captain wanted. The young man came out of the jeep and saw them all crying. They all said together: We want to serve your God! The young soldier was astonished, and asked what was going on? The CAPTAIN crying opened the hood of the jeep by showing the young man that the car had no engine. Then the boy said: See? This is the God I serve, THE GOD OF IMPOSSIBLE, the God who gives life to what does not exist. You may think there are things still impossible BUT WITH GOD EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. To the person reading this, I pray the Lord work A SUPER MIRACLE in your life today that would look like a lie In Jesus Name I Pray.. Write 'Amen' to claim this prayer
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To be fair, it's not all that hard to be a captain. There's one in my facebook feed right now who's convinced Canada has cured cancer but something something big pharma. For content,  I know Israel has a different approach to airport security because  but this is   fakedit: Fox news reports that A&E is going to do business with the Duck Dynasty dude. Prepare yourselves Edit: While we're on the Nippon bandwagon, I tried to pseudo-self-teach myself Japanese for a stretch of time. I had previously studied Chinese in high school but wasn't very good with tones, so Japanese was a way to learn something simpler yet still asian-y. My reading level was at a preschool level, but I had almost no oral skills (heh) because the only people available nearby with were the biggest neckbeard weeaboo fucks. At one point I did meet a Japanese exchange student living with a family friend, and we did have bullshit two-line conversations which was pretty cool. She even complemented my pronunciation and calligraphy which were total holdovers from Chinese, but once she moved away I had no desire to continue. Anime ruins everything 
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MizPiz posted:It pretty much is. I failed my Japanese 101 class, and even I could tell just how terrible it is when a "self-taught" speaker tries to say anything beyond a single word (sometimes even just that). It's even better when they try to speak to a native Japanese speaker (even more so if it's a woman), since they just have to show how much It's okay, the Japanese are inferior sub-humans. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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 If you haven't been following the UK news, an explanation: Ian Wakins, lead singer of Lostprophets was recently convicted of some horrific child abuse and sentenced to 35 years in prison. A 56 year old man who happens to share the same name on twitter has been getting endless abuse and threats on twitter from dumbasses who can't work out a guy serving 35 years in prison probably won't still be tweeting too much.   Names not censored because it's public posting. To confuse matters even more, there's another Ian Watkins from a pop band called Steps also received a bucketload of abuse, but also had his photo published in error alongside a news headline saying (paraphrasing) 'Singer Ian Wakins jailed for attempted Baby rape'  Unsurprisingly, he was really pissed off and hopefully is suing the poo poo out of them. All 3 use(d) similar twitter names: @ian_watkins is the peadophile, @IanHwatkins is the popsinger and @ianwakins is the random guy. But never minded double checking your information, just throw it up online! 
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