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[chocolate_chip]

More Japanese lessons from the "no one in Japan uses 'ore' anymore" person.

That whole post is pretty much wall-to-wall fail, actually.

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[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

.... LOL. "sama" is obsolete! NO REALLY.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Yes, all of my mail is addressed to chocolate_chip様 because my apartment is located in 1873. Along with every store I go to. Trufax.

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

Oh god, and the "sumanai is more polite than sumimasen!" thing. NO. Just. NO.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

I KNOW wtf I can has basic grammar?

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

This all reminds me of.... well, I have a friend who also lived in Japan, and she frequented some Japan-related message boards. And somebody on them apparently claimed that "there are no nicknames in Japan. They don't even have a word for 'nickname.'"

... ORLY? 'cus あだ名 is kind of the word for nickname. I'm pretty sure my host brother's daughter, whose name was Asa, kept being called Aa-chan. BUT I GUESS THAT'S NOT A NICKNAME.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

And my ESS students don't call each other Nagi (Nagisa), Sari (Sarina), Shokotan (Shoko), and Banchi (Ryoko). No, never, unless by never you mean every day.

[yhibiki.livejournal.com]

God I wish I were a member of ffr so I could tell this chick off. "ANATA IS A COMMONLY USED WORD." Right, when people are trying to say "you" in normal context EXCEPT NOT.

[castor.livejournal.com]

Don't you love it when people act like they know more than they do and are condescending? *siiiiigh*

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

She's completely impossible to reason with, too, and can barely go half a comment without bringing up her InuYasha lolicon porn, which is why so few people try to correct her.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Said poster has never signed up to be a circle at a Japanese doujinshi event. I love getting things addressed to "Rachel-sama"

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Or been a Volks customer. Or else I'm wrong and Volks thinks I'm the Emperor. That must be it.

Which reminds me, my News came, but yours didn't. Did your membership expire?

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I didn't think so, I tend to renew every year during GW and GW hasn't passed yet. So who knows, I don't really need it particularly when I have to pack so much up now. ;;_;; And at this point, I have no idea when I will be back in Japan post this trip. And if what Ria says is true, Sato is not exactly going to be open to me....

I do need Kakeru, Chika and their outfits. SO CUTE!

Volks thinks you're the Empress XD;; Or possibly descended from the Shogunate.

I think this person is just getting an extremely skewered view of all of Japan being the housewife of a rich ex-pat. It's like imagining all the US is like living in a suburb of NYC. though seriously that ore one was ridiculous. I'd just seen a Japanese movie on the plane and the main male character used ore all the time and he was 30+, it was not animated, he was not yakuza, and he lived in Tokyo.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

??? What did Ria say?

[rkold.livejournal.com]

That she couldn't go with kids. And let's be honest, if I were to go back to Japan the chances I would have a baby or small toddler with me on the trip are pretty high. I do plan to breastfeed until the baby is a year at least and you can't easily just drop your toddler for a week or two and honestly, I wouldn't want to.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Hm. I can't remember ever seeing a baby there, but there was a girl about 7-8 last time I went. (Of course, she was Japanese, so if she looked 7, she was probably 15, lol.)

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I have seen babies/toddlers at SCC, though their mothers were circles, not shoppers. But if you can't bring a baby to Sato or Dolpa, that pretty much excludes me.

[anruiukimi.livejournal.com]

Every time you link to something there, I end up losing an hour or two browsing. Darn you! ::fistshake::

...and yes, I agree with your comment.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Yay! >D

D:

[jimmy-thesiger.livejournal.com]

....ahhhh.
I don't know much, just enough to know that "-sama" is still used in the ordinary context...
I guess ranting like that makes people feel better about themselves because "I know more than you do"...and unfortunately they don't and are just being unfortunately horribly rude about it :x
:(