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Nergal Fallingbridge
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Join date: 26 Jun 2003
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04-01-2004 09:45
Pfft -- you worried me for a minute there, Dae!
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Darwin Appleby
I Was Beaten With Satan
Join date: 14 Mar 2003
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04-01-2004 09:57
"Good riddence and about frikken time"
--Steller Sunshine Anyway, about Lumin's "Japanese"... is there something I'm not getting?  Sorry, no coffee today.And Lordfly, that kinda reminds me of the "tounges" from Snow Crash. ma ne du se am en in ew me an un la en am... _____________________
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Lumiere Noir
Ivory Tower Dweller
Join date: 25 Dec 2003
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04-01-2004 10:20
Originally posted by Sinclair Valen Geez, Lumi, you scared me for a moment there by switching languages - I thought I was beginning to understand Japanese... Mei wen ti. Wo shi zai Meiguo - wo de Zhong wen xiang ge bu hao.  (yes, I know it shows) =SV Bu shi le! Wo hao kao xing zhi dao ni hwei jiang Zhong Wen! Wo ye shi Mei Gwo Ren, dan shi wo yi qian zu zai Tai Wan. Zu le san nian ban le. Ni shi zai shen ma di fang xrei Zhong Wen de? Hwei toa jian ba! _____________________
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Hikaru Yamamoto
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04-01-2004 10:20
Originally posted by Darwin Appleby CHRIS!! Hajime mashite. eeh, Darwin, you 2 have already met  Hajimemashite means pleased to meet you for the 1st time heh chris: doshite gakkou wa musukashi desu ka? _____________________
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Lumiere Noir
Ivory Tower Dweller
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04-01-2004 10:23
Originally posted by Darwin Appleby "Good riddence and about frikken time" --Steller Sunshine Anyway, about Lumin's "Japanese"... is there something I'm not getting? Sorry, no coffee today.And Lordfly, that kinda reminds me of the "tounges" from Snow Crash. ma ne du se am en in ew me an un la en am... Shift somewhat to the south east, or due south of Japan, it's my poor excuse for a transliteration of Mandarin. I only really learned to read the characters, I never did get much of a grasp on the various systems of phoneticizing the language using a Roman alphabet. Lumi _____________________
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Nergal Fallingbridge
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Join date: 26 Jun 2003
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04-01-2004 10:23
Originally posted by Darwin Appleby "Good riddence and about frikken time" --Steller Sunshine Anyway, about Lumin's "Japanese"... is there something I'm not getting? Sorry, no coffee today.And Lordfly, that kinda reminds me of the "tounges" from Snow Crash. ma ne du se am en in ew me an un la en am... I'd say it's Chinese or similar. Definitely not Japanese. _____________________
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Jake Cellardoor
CHM builder
Join date: 27 Mar 2003
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04-01-2004 10:50
Yeah, Lumiere and Sinclair are chatting in Chinese, using something that resembles the pinyin transliteration.
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Darwin Appleby
I Was Beaten With Satan
Join date: 14 Mar 2003
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04-01-2004 11:18
Hehe, thanks all.
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Sinclair Valen
The One who Was
Join date: 1 May 2003
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04-01-2004 12:41
Originally posted by Jake Cellardoor Yeah, Lumiere and Sinclair are chatting in Chinese, using something that resembles the pinyin transliteration. <snip> In my case, it also "resembles" Chinese... vaguely... - I'm not really good at it. It's going to take me a while to translate Lumiere's reply...=SV _____________________
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Lumiere Noir
Ivory Tower Dweller
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04-01-2004 12:59
Originally posted by Sinclair Valen It's going to take me a while to translate Lumiere's reply... =SV Bu shi le! <No way!> Wo hao kao xing zhi dao ni hwei jiang Zhong Wen! <I'm really happy to know you can speak Chinese!> Wo ye shi Mei Gwo Ren, dan shi wo yi qian zu zai Tai Wan. Zu le san nian ban le. <I'm also an American, but I lived in Taiwan for three and a half years.> Ni shi zai shen ma di fang xrei Zhong Wen de? <Where did you study Chinese?> Hwei toa jian ba! <See you next time!> My transliterating ability is awful...In Taiwan they don't use the Ro Man "Ping Yin" system they do in Mainland China, they use something called the Ju Yin Fu Hao that doesn't look anything like any sort of romance language (it sort of looks like Korean, but...it also looks nothing like Korean...it's hard to describe http://homepages.stuy.edu/~jrolle/bopomofo.htm has images of it, the symbols are in the column to the left). Back in college I took Mandarin as an elective and studied the Ping Ying system, but I've lost it over the years, especially since I relied on the characters and the Taiwanese phonetic system. Lumi _____________________
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Sinclair Valen
The One who Was
Join date: 1 May 2003
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04-01-2004 13:07
... I almost had it... was just getting to the last line.
This was fun... thanks, Lumi. We should go hijack some other thread now though... =Sinclair _____________________
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Christopher Omega
Oxymoron
Join date: 28 Mar 2003
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04-01-2004 13:09
Originally posted by Lumiere Noir Bao qian, wo yi dian ye bu zi dao. Wo de Re Ben Hwa hen bu hao. Wo dre de hen bu gong ping ren ren doa zi dao Xi Ban Wa Hwa, hwo shi Re Ben Hwa, dan shi ru gwo Wo yong Zhong Wen xie yi xie, mei yo ren zhi dao Wo shi shen ma yi se. Ye hwei ma wo guan yu zhi ge. Ju ni hao de yuan qi. Di 4 yue di 1 tian kwai le! Zai Jian! Lumi That sounds like Chinese... Japanese only has 26 syllables.. stuff like ye, hwa, dre arent japanese words ==Chris |
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Christopher Omega
Oxymoron
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04-01-2004 13:14
Originally posted by Darwin Appleby Hehe, thanks all. And Hikaru: How do you say "How are you?" casually? Thanks Mind if I butt in and answer this? As far as I know, in Japanese, "How are you" casually is "ogenki desu ka?", which literally means "are (you) honorably energetic/fine/healthy?" |
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Darwin Appleby
I Was Beaten With Satan
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04-01-2004 13:16
Thanks Christopher-san
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Kex Godel
Master Slacker
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
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04-01-2004 13:48
Originally posted by Lordfly Digeridoo ba na de de no ga he jo te re ta ti jo ko mo no ba be bi nu ti ha eh re we ta re.... ba ma zu na la amu pa go lu ne me a ba du. |
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Christopher Omega
Oxymoron
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04-01-2004 14:05
Originally posted by Hikaru Yamamoto chris: doshite gakkou wa musukashi desu ka? Heh, correct me if Im wrong, we haven't gotten to 'asking why' in my class yet (its a first-year class). I think that means: "Why is school difficult?" Sou desu ka? School is difficult because... Ichiban - Watashi wa uchiki na hito desu.  Niban - kyori wa ookii desu. (The distance is big, I live rather far from the school). Sanban - asa ga anmari suki ja nai desu yo!! ==Chris |
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Hikaru Yamamoto
Oldbie
Join date: 10 Mar 2003
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04-01-2004 14:45
Originally posted by Christopher Omega Mind if I butt in and answer this? As far as I know, in Japanese, "How are you" casually is "ogenki desu ka?", which literally means "are (you) honorably energetic/fine/healthy?" hai hai, sore wa hontou desu ^^ Originally posted by Christopher Omega Heh, correct me if Im wrong, we haven't gotten to 'asking why' in my class yet (its a first-year class). I think that means: "Why is school difficult?" Sou desu ka? ==Chris yep, thats what i asked btw, thats not fair i wanna take a japanse class  but there are none around. All i have are books and anime. I need a teacher to help me learn._____________________
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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04-01-2004 18:40
Take a look at Rosetta Stone software, it's the best. It's about as expensive as a class though (well maybe cheaper).
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS! |
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Hikaru Yamamoto
Oldbie
Join date: 10 Mar 2003
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04-02-2004 13:38
Originally posted by Garoad Kuroda Take a look at Rosetta Stone software, it's the best. It's about as expensive as a class though (well maybe cheaper). but...but...i wanna teacher. I've never actually spoken japanese to anyone that knew it. I tried my parents but they just look at me weird and make fun of me, lol. _____________________
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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04-02-2004 23:25
Well then you're screwed
j/k Why don't you try a Yahoo Japan voice chat room? =) Might be tough to get around the interface and get it working but I'm sure it's possible. Of course, there's no guarantee they won't laugh at you too. _____________________
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS! |