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Old 2012-02-26, 01:19   Link #2261
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More like rather than 10 seconds with google or even just browsing the existing threads here they.... oh never mind - thanks for being civil
Maybe people prefer the personal Vexx touch rather than the impersonal google!
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Old 2012-02-27, 00:34   Link #2262
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But... "personal Vexx touch" is the same as 1930$&&:@!/&$ssdkjh


"btw is it true that Japanese kids beg for chocolates from the American soldiers on the street?"

..... Hey, at least I moved up two decades.
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Old 2012-02-27, 01:18   Link #2263
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If a mother (or one with motherly status - teacher, aunt, and such) told a kid that she loves him/her, which verb would she uses? Suki/daisuki? Aisu/Aishiteru?
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Old 2012-02-28, 05:24   Link #2264
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Mother – Aishiteru or Daisuki. But aishiteru would only be when she really is trying to tell the child that he/she is loved. Otherwise on a daily manner it would be daisuki.

Teacher - Daisuki.

Aunt - Daisuki

But to be honest, I cant imagine that conversation happening in a Japanese setting too much. Usually we don’t express our feelings verbally. Maybe to a young child, but not when you get to a certain age.. maybe up until the child is 9 to 10 ish…?

Would love to hear other people’s opinion on this one though 
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Old 2012-02-28, 05:39   Link #2265
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I imagine "daisuki". "Aishiteru" is just too strong a word in my opinion.
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Old 2012-02-28, 07:19   Link #2266
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If I will use "daisuki" for just saying "I liked you"( not the romantic way) to a new female friend without mistaking it as "I love you"... How would I avoid the possible misunderstanding.
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Old 2012-02-28, 12:38   Link #2267
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Just say "suki", and don't make the atmosphere and your tone of voice romantic. I mean, just think of how you would say "I like you" to a girl.


I wish to state this: At least half of the questions on how to conduct yourself in Japan can be answered based on universal standards. As much as there is the hype of the Japanese traditionally hiding their heart and stuff, in the end it's just a more stylized version of how one would conduct oneself in any modern society. Japan isn't some special unique country: It's a country having a culture made by humans, and as such it can't deviate into some alien world in today's cosmopolitan age.
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Old 2012-02-28, 14:39   Link #2268
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I wish to state this: At least half of the questions on how to conduct yourself in Japan can be answered based on universal standards. As much as there is the hype of the Japanese traditionally hiding their heart and stuff, in the end it's just a more stylized version of how one would conduct oneself in any modern society. Japan isn't some special unique country: It's a country having a culture made by humans, and as such it can't deviate into some alien world in today's cosmopolitan age.
I often joke that all one has to do really is behave the way etiquette demanded of us (Americans, etc) just a couple of decades ago in the US. Be nice, don't embarrass people around you. Say please and thank you. Don't be loud. Not mysterious at all. Average Japanese *knows* you're a foreigner so they'll usually appreciate anything you can do to make them feel more comfortable in your zone.
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Old 2012-02-28, 18:08   Link #2269
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I imagine "daisuki". "Aishiteru" is just too strong a word in my opinion.
No.

Shinji is correct.
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Old 2012-02-28, 20:16   Link #2270
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まあそれはそれでからかい甲斐があるがな <- is this informal or archaic?

The only thing I got here was: Well, the teasing was worth it (or something).
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Old 2012-02-28, 20:39   Link #2271
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Mother – Aishiteru or Daisuki. But aishiteru would only be when she really is trying to tell the child that he/she is loved. Otherwise on a daily manner it would be daisuki.

Teacher - Daisuki.

Aunt - Daisuki

But to be honest, I cant imagine that conversation happening in a Japanese setting too much. Usually we don’t express our feelings verbally. Maybe to a young child, but not when you get to a certain age.. maybe up until the child is 9 to 10 ish…?

Would love to hear other people’s opinion on this one though 
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I imagine "daisuki". "Aishiteru" is just too strong a word in my opinion.
Heya thank.

Yeah i can image that would not be daily thing, and won't be used much after certain ages. I means , jokingly put it, universally every parent is more or less tsundere toward their children...
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まあそれはそれでからかい甲斐があるがな <- is this informal or archaic?

The only thing I got here was: Well, the teasing was worth it (or something).
Probably should be in Japanese language thread, but I want to know about this too. I thought it's just an alternative of 'kana'?

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Actually a question as well. Is the obon festival and the word bonfire in English have the same origin? Did the term obon exist much earlier than Western arrival to Japan?
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Old 2012-02-28, 22:16   Link #2272
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Nope. The "bon" is 盆, the shorten form of Ullambana (于蘭盆會 or 盂蘭盆會). It means "great suffering", and so the festival is to ameliorate the suffering of the "Urabanna" while remembering and appreciating ancestors and their sacrifices.
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Old 2012-02-28, 22:44   Link #2273
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Nope. The "bon" is 盆, the shorten form of Ullambana (于蘭盆會 or 盂蘭盆會). It means "great suffering", and so the festival is to ameliorate the suffering of the "Urabanna" while remembering and appreciating ancestors and their sacrifices.
And to add to Sumeragi's post:

The modern word "bonfire"
[Middle English bonnefire : bon, bone; see bone + fir, fire; see fire.] bonfire [ˈbɒnˌfaɪə].

Obon is far older than the "english incursion" into Japanese linguistics.
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Old 2012-02-28, 23:03   Link #2274
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Nope. The "bon" is 盆, the shorten form of Ullambana (于蘭盆會 or 盂蘭盆會). It means "great suffering", and so the festival is to ameliorate the suffering of the "Urabanna" while remembering and appreciating ancestors and their sacrifices.
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And to add to Sumeragi's post:

The modern word "bonfire"
[Middle English bonnefire : bon, bone; see bone + fir, fire; see fire.] bonfire [ˈbɒnˌfaɪə].

Obon is far older than the "english incursion" into Japanese linguistics.
Just to show that there are lots of coincidences in language, i guess
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Old 2012-02-28, 23:16   Link #2275
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Just to show that there are lots of coincidences in language, i guess
I don't get the connection at all. How is a festival honoring the dead connected in any way to a controlled outdoor fire used for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration?
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Old 2012-02-28, 23:16   Link #2276
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Just to show that there are lots of coincidences in language, i guess
Its interesting to look at the trans-linguistics of the word for "tea" in half the world.
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Old 2012-02-29, 12:03   Link #2277
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I don't get the connection at all. How is a festival honoring the dead connected in any way to a controlled outdoor fire used for informal disposal of burnable waste material or as part of a celebration?
Well there are lots of bonfire during the festival to start with, 五山送り火 for example...

It could be the case of "hey, don't you think 'Buddhism Festival for honoring the dead' too mouthful, how about just call it Bon + O, since there are lots of bonfire anyway"
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Its interesting to look at the trans-linguistics of the word for "tea" in half the world.
Do tell.

I know lots of country, include Japan calls it cha through
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Well there are lots of bonfire during the festival to start with, 五山送り火 for example...

It could be the case of "hey, don't you think 'Buddhism Festival for honoring the dead' too mouthful, how about just call it Bon + O, since there are lots of bonfire anyway"
1. Bonfires are 焚き火, takibi. Long way from being connected to bonfire.

2. 盆 is pronounced bon in Japanese, bun in Korean, pen in Mandarian, and pun in Cantonese.


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I know lots of country, include Japan calls it cha through
That comes from the reading of the character for tea, 茶.
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Old 2012-03-01, 00:00   Link #2279
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I know lots of country, include Japan calls it cha through

In the Philippines, we call it "Tsa-a". Tsa sounds like "cha" too.
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