Maybe. I think they're using their cellphone tho. Sometimes they reply 2 minutes after I sent my message. Whether it's 5am, noon or 9pm over there.

They're sometimes using words that aren't in dictionaries tho. So I have to Google it and figure out what that means with the images or websites that pops up. One girl writes ���� instead of�@���� too. I have no idea why.

tabana wrote:

Maybe. I think they're using their cellphone tho. Sometimes they reply 2 minutes after I sent my message. Whether it's 5am, noon or 9pm over there. They're sometimes using words that aren't in dictionaries tho. So I have to Google it and figure out what that means with the images or websites that pops up. One girl writes ���� instead of�@���� too. I have no idea why.

when you figure it out...let us know why...oshiete kudasai.

I'll copy/paste the answer, cause I'm not sure I'll understand it enough to translate it.

tabana wrote:

I'll copy/paste the answer, cause I'm not sure I'll understand it enough to translate it.

maybe kokou could help you out, because i'm sure i can't!

Tu_triky wrote:

maybe kokou could help you out, because i'm sure i can't!

Haven't seen kokuou-sensei for a long time....

Anime Dad wrote:

Haven't seen kokuou-sensei for a long time....

posted once real quick sometime within the last 7 days.

I'm writing a paper about pachinko for one of my classes and I made an enquete I want to send to my Japanese friends and teachers (and everybody else I know/once have in my emailaddresses). My Japanese teacher already checked my enquete, but now I have to write the email. I;m not really good in being very polite, so I was hoping if someone can check my Japanese here. This is what I came up with:


�搶�ƗF�B�̊F����ցA

-Here I�fd like to put a phrase about the weather and I found this on the internet, but I feel it�fs a bit too polite:
���N�͗�N�ɂȂ��₦���ޏH�ɂȂ�܂����B�F�l�A�����₩�ɂ��߂����ł�������Ⴂ�܂���.


���̓p�`���R�ɂ‚��Ę_���������Ă��܂��B���{�l���p�`���R�ɂǂ��v�������ׂ����̂Ȃ̂ŁA�Z���A���P�[�g�����܂����B
�P�`�Q�����炢������̂ŁA���Ԃ���������A�L�����܂��񂩁B

�����͂�낵�����肢���܂��A

Krisje Meeuwsen

Ps: ����ɏ�񂪂����p�̏ꍇ�́A�����Ȃ����A����������




Is this polite enough? Or should some things be changed?
�h'd like to have the enquetes back as soon as possible. Should I write that in the email as well? Or do you think if Japanese see this email, they'll respond immediately?

thank you for your answer in advance



ps: I've only got 37 adresses so far, but I'd like to have more Japanese. Is there someplace on the internet where I can put my enquete and get a lot of response?

X-U wrote:

Is there someplace on the internet where I can put my enquete and get a lot of response?

I'd say one of those cellphone chat site. Don't know any tho.

Tu_triky wrote:

when you figure it out...let us know why...oshiete kudasai.

Seems to be a girl thing. They replace all the kana by their tiny equivalent (half width kana), or use 2 or 3 characters or symbols to make 1 kana. It's like writing |-| instead of H.

So you end up with something like ���� or �F�B����[�Ϩ. You probably need to be a gyaru to understand all that crap.

Mis post... sorry.

tabana wrote:

Seems to be a girl thing. They replace all the kana by their tiny equivalent (half width kana), or use 2 or 3 characters or symbols to make 1 kana. It's like writing |-| instead of H. So you end up with something like ���� or �F�B����[�Ϩ. You probably need to be a gyaru to understand all that crap.

Kind of reminds me of the way some girls type in the states.

HeLlO mY nAmE iS aHo

or something like that.
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Welcome back btw.

I just realized you came back for your wife's birthday.
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hi,
a lot of questions:
1) how wld u say u cant tell who is going to win? coz i translated it as:
�䂤���傤���邪�����Ȃ� bt im sure it prob sounds weird...
2) when u use genkooyooshi (writing vertically) n the character in the first box is gonna be a ( | )katakana long sound thing, do u squish it into the last box of the previous line or can u start a new line?
3) is catching a comp virus using the same verb as catching a disease virus i.e ���‚�@�H
4) what do the different particles after ����i�����ājsuch as �� and �� change the meaning of it?
5) what does ��؂Ȃ̂ł͂Ȃ����낤�� mean?

thank u to ppl who answerrr it:D

Tu_triky wrote:

posted once real quick sometime within the last 7 days.

I'm SOOOOO sorry, guys!
It's been uber-crazy with me lately!
So much work, school, and just general hecticness!

I haven't forgot about y'all, though! I'm here to spread some <3.

Anywho, yeah, those things you see like:

���� (sometimes even �у� ���� <--- supposed to be �� ��)

are called "�M��������" (gal moji).
It's basically the Japanese version of |_337 5p34|< (leet speak) that girls use in Japan. I don't know if it's all that popular anymore, but it was for a while. Incredibly hard to read, but creative, I'll give them that.

You can read all about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyaru-moji

HTH

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-Bern Williams

Woot! Thank you.

I might work on a gal moji translator later.
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Hello

I have a question ...
What's the difference between �� (ai) and �� (koi) because I think they both mean love but when do I use one and when the other?

Thanks for your help ^.^
maryanne

Hi all! I know that this is the old word for India (used also in Chinese and Korean). Now I see that it appears in contexts like �V����������x��. An example:

http://www.sumire201.com/tabehoudai/tabehoudai_zukan/detail/indoya_shinjuku_higashiguchi_ten.html

I have some knowledge of Japanese, but it does not go so far to do a Internet search to find out the origin of �V��. Namely, does it have a connection with bamboo (��) or was it just a pronunciation of an initially non-Chinese word (Tianzhu - Chinese, Tenjiku - Japanese)?

Other question would be about �V��������, do you know if this group is pronounced Tenjiku yume ryouri or does it have other specific pronunciation (eventually other meaning than "Tenjiku dream food")? I say this because when I search on-line there appear many results with �V����, making me wonder whether this is an established expression with a specific meaning.

Many thanks

maryanne wrote:

Hello I have a question ... What's the difference between �� (ai) and �� (koi) because I think they both mean love but when do I use one and when the other? Thanks for your help ^.^ maryanne

koi used in lovers.
ai is not only used in here.it is more means than koi.example parents and children, you can use ai but not koi
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Rakan wrote:

Hi all! I know that this is the old word for India (used also in Chinese and Korean). Now I see that it appears in contexts like �V����������x��. An example:

we call India(��x) �V��(TianZhu).the name is origin from Buddhism of China.
so, �V�� is ��x. i think it is means "the dream food of tenjiku".
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hptm wrote:

we call India(��x) �V��(TianZhu).the name is origin from Buddhism of China. so, �V�� is ��x. i think it is means "the dream food of tenjiku".

Hi, thanks for the info..