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TAC ’13 Sakura 桜 (Japanese) - TEAM THREAD

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kujichagulia
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 Message 17 of 297
10 December 2012 at 2:30pm | IP Logged 
皆さん、こんにちは! こんばんは! おはようございます!
TAC 2013 Team う のことは よろしくお願いします!
一緒に挑戦すると 何もにたおせな~い!
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benbassist
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 Message 18 of 297
10 December 2012 at 4:00pm | IP Logged 
Here is a link to my log.

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34514


Edited by benbassist on 10 December 2012 at 4:11pm

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Brun Ugle
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 Message 19 of 297
11 December 2012 at 10:51am | IP Logged 
I've been following the Russian team and they think that names using a foreign alphabet are confusing and difficult for others who haven't studied that language. And I think they have a point. Besides, following the alphabet is not very creative. We can do better than that.

They are trying to pick something that is recognizable to everyone as being Russian. It looks like they are going for MIR. And I thought maybe we should pick something that everyone will recognize as Japanese and which is written in the Latin alphabet so that they know what it is says. Any ideas? Not kamikaze, although as one of the Russian team members pointed out, MIR also crashed and burned. Or at least burned. And it does fit the "annihilation" part of the challenge. We should probably stay away from atomic bombs as well.

We could be samurai or ninjas. They are pretty good at annihilating things.




Edited by Brun Ugle on 11 December 2012 at 10:57am

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stifa
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 Message 20 of 297
11 December 2012 at 12:40pm | IP Logged 
But I associate these words in romanised form (along with kawaii, sugoi, baka, etc.)
with weebs, and weebs are the most annoying people you can find.

And this is a site filled with language nerds; foreign scripts just adds to the
language nerdery. :p
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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 21 of 297
11 December 2012 at 1:05pm | IP Logged 
Obviously I have no voice here, but even if this is a site for nerds, the rest of us do not know Japanese. How
do we cheer for a team we cannot even pronounce? Go team &@? I would love to see the different team
names reflect something essential to that culture, which is immediately identifiable for the rest. My first team
was called team я. Genuine. Yes. Catchy. Absolutely not.
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dampingwire
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 Message 22 of 297
11 December 2012 at 1:15pm | IP Logged 
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
Obviously I have no voice here, but even if this is a site for
nerds, the rest of us do not know Japanese. How
do we cheer for a team we cannot even pronounce? Go team &@? I would love to see the
different team
names reflect something essential to that culture, which is immediately identifiable
for the rest. My first team
was called team я. Genuine. Yes. Catchy. Absolutely not.


Well "u" isn't that hard to pronounce :-)

I suppose there are only five vowels so in 2016 the team would have been in trouble
anyway :-(

Would "Team muzukashii" be any better? Or does it have to be something like "Team
Meiji"?





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stifa
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 Message 23 of 297
11 December 2012 at 2:18pm | IP Logged 
Really? http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E9%9B%A3%E3%81%97%E3%81%84&eng=& dict=edict

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dampingwire
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 Message 24 of 297
11 December 2012 at 2:22pm | IP Logged 
stifa wrote:
Really? http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E9%9B%A3%E3%81%97%E3%81%84&eng=&
dict=edict


Yes, 難しい. Maybe by the next TAC it'll be 易い!



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