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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 25 of 297 11 December 2012 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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To me, 難しい is more pain in the arse kind of difficult. Perhaps we should use "Genki",
because "genki" is a fantastic word without any exact English counterpart. "Genki", to me, means that there are no worries, that everything's great, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 26 of 297 11 December 2012 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sure U isn't hard to pronounce, but when it is in a different alphabet, it's hard to know how to pronounce it. I also think we need a name that is recognizable to other people who've never studied Japanese, so I'm not so sure about muzukasii. I don't like it so much anyway.
BTW, if we had kept going with the alphabet, I assume we wouldn't have stopped with the vowels. If we go all the way to ん, we would have enough letters to last the rest of our lives, at least for some of us. Especially if we include things like がぎぐげご. So,what kind of Japanesy things can we come up with that other people will recognize? It should sound a little impressive too. I really like the Russian team's space theme, but I can't think of anything like that with Japanese. Sony and Toyota just don't have the same ring to them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| benbassist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5428 days ago 51 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 27 of 297 11 December 2012 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like Genki as well. I think we need a better name than う/u.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 28 of 297 11 December 2012 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
In case it wasn't obvious, 難しい wasn't a serious suggestion.
If Team Viking comes into being (see post 304 here: http://how-to-learn-any- language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34418&PN=0&TPN=38) then maybe we should be Team Samurai after all? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jaseur Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6080 days ago 50 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English* | Message 29 of 297 11 December 2012 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some suggestions off the top of my head... it's hard to think of words people will
recognize as Japanese but which aren't "weeby". ;-) Iku! Ganbaru! Yen! +Alpha Pera Pera Otaku Maybe not so impressive sounding and/or less well known... Daijoubu Naka naka Sasuga I'm not a fan of genki to be honest but I don't mind if people want it. Hopefully, we can get some more suggestions before making a decision. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 30 of 297 11 December 2012 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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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 where it doesn't belong again :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 31 of 297 11 December 2012 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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But lotus isn't a japanese word, if it were, it would be something like
Rotsusu/Lotsusu. And "Sensei" is a honorific used to refer to teachers, doctors, etc. thus it sounds kind of off. I think Genki would be a nice word as it's a "cultural" word. I have no idea what the MIR are for instance (perhaps I should have paid more attention in history class...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jaseur Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6080 days ago 50 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English* | Message 32 of 297 11 December 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, we don't have to limit ourselves to English words of Japanese origin... at this
point we are just making suggestions. Karoshi might be more appropriate than harakiri but both are pretty negative. Some more commonly known words then. Tsunami Shogun Ninja Ronin Katana Banzai Bonsai Haiku Jitsu Kimono Sushi Wasabi I quite like Team Satori or maybe Team Zen. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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