Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6613 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 41 of 297 11 December 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
None of the names you mention are remotely recognisable. Harakiri would work, sensei would work,
samurai would work, lotus would work if you want something more peaceful (she says, sticking her nose
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Your nose is always welcome. I seem to be sticking mine into your team's business a lot too.
I agree that we need something recognizable to outsiders as being something distinctly Japanese. But I do hope to avoid committing harakiri this year.
stifa: Shame on you. How can you not know what MIR is?! It was a hugely famous Russian space station. And it only came down about 10 years or so ago, so it's not exactly history. I guess you're just a lot younger than Cristina and I. Maybe it is history to you.
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yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4625 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin
| Message 42 of 297 11 December 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
True. They could google it. They'd learn a nice japanese word!
Btw, if I remember well, zen is not exactly the japanese word, but Zazen is. I haven't
checked that out for ages so I can't assure anything, but I'm pretty positive.
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6613 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 43 of 297 11 December 2012 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
Zen is very much associated with Japan though. So I think it could work. It would be a bit of peace to balance all the annihilation.
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4866 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 44 of 297 11 December 2012 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
I was only half my age ten years ago, and my history book had stuff from 2006 in it
when I did Vg3 History in 2010/11.
Googling MIR I kind of recognise it though - I've just forgotten the name of it..
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5975 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 45 of 297 11 December 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
Well I think harakiri is the wrong kind of annihilation, sensei isn't right because we're all students, and as a 30 year old female office worker, samurai just feels plain wrong :)
I'm trying to think of some useful suggestions. But all I can think of is food. Sushi, sashimi, wasabi, tofu, udon, soba, ramen, katsu, daikon, mochi, donburi, yakitori, okonomiyaki. Mmmm, now I'm just making myself hungry.
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benbassist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5420 days ago 51 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 46 of 297 11 December 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
How about Tamagotchi?
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6613 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 47 of 297 11 December 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
g-bod wrote:
Well I think harakiri is the wrong kind of annihilation, sensei isn't right because we're all students, and as a 30 year old female office worker, samurai just feels plain wrong :)
I'm trying to think of some useful suggestions. But all I can think of is food. Sushi, sashimi, wasabi, tofu, udon, soba, ramen, katsu, daikon, mochi, donburi, yakitori, okonomiyaki. Mmmm, now I'm just making myself hungry. |
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I'm a nearly 40-year-old female used-to-be-office-worker, and I wouldn't mind getting my sword out and being a samurai or a ninja or something.
Team sushi? At least they would know it was Japanese.
Tamagotchi, I'm not so sure about. I don't know if people even remember them. They might have been in stifa's history book though :D
Pokemon is probably fairly well know around the world, but I think I'd rather be a samurai than a pokemon.
We could be the Karate Kids....
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4866 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 48 of 297 11 December 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
We only called those "datadyr" in Norwegian. :p
And Pokemon isn't automatically reminding me of Japan, even though the island names are
taken from Japanese ilands'.
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