The Wangout: Sprung is tidy. I wonder if he's gay..

[Fer!]

Yay, got a shiny paper saying that I won the orthography contest at school. It wouldn't mean much except that I saved about 180 bucks to my parents.

[Elin]

Hi Ed.

Uhh...I'm gonna nag you with something, need help with japanese words, I hope you can help me .

Lately I have been trying to learn japanese from scratch, and some friend and I are kinda constructing some sort of dictionary with words we "learn", so my question is...I know that Father is something like Tozaa, Onii-chan is brother...but I wanna know the term in japanese for sister and mother.

Hope you don't mind me nagging you with this.

It's fine. I'm really happy to help if I can. And...yay for learning Japanese~

Um...Japanese has kind of a complex system of honorifics. You don't need to worry about it now if you don't want to, but...for now, it's important that you remember that there's two words for every relative. There's one word for your own relatives (that is more humble) and one word that you use for other people's relatives (that is more formal). So...

Haha - my mother (yes, it's really 'haha'. It's an easy one to remember)
Okaasan - another person's mother (it can also sometimes be used by younger kids to refer to their own mother. But it sounds kind of childish if you do that as an adult)
Ane - my big sister
Oneesan - another person's big sister (ditto on kids sometimes using it for their own big sisters. Also, it doubles as a term for an older girl that a kid looks up to. You'll often hear 'oneesan' when there's no real blood ties, but just a bond of friendship. The same with 'oniisan', but for boys)
Imouto - my little sister
Imoutosan - another person's little sister

[Elin]

Goota go to bed peeps. I have work tomorrow! A teacher I am

Woah, you're a teacher now? Tell me all about it later~

Sleep well.

[Fer!]

Goota go to bed peeps. I have work tomorrow! A teacher I am

The only teacher here is me!


...uh no wait, Norway? Okay then, but I'm Latino Caliente Teacher. Maybe they need some calor over there.

[crusher]

I too am heading for bed. Gotta get up early work WORK! Why do I have to work to earn money? Can't people just send me money on daily basis? :\

GOOD NIGHTY!

[MasterOfGravity]

Hanzo Kuuriichan?

[Fer!]

It's fine. I'm really happy to help if I can. And...yay for learning Japanese~

Um...Japanese has kind of a complex system of honorifics. You don't need to worry about it now if you don't want to, but...for now, it's important that you remember that there's two words for every relative. There's one word for your own relatives (that is more humble) and one word that you use for other people's relatives (that is more formal). So...

Haha - my mother (yes, it's really 'haha'. It's an easy one to remember)
Okaasan - another person's mother (it can also sometimes be used by younger kids to refer to their own mother. But it sounds kind of childish if you do that as an adult)
Ane - my big sister
Oneesan - another person's big sister (ditto on kids sometimes using it for their own big sisters. Also, it doubles as a term for an older girl that a kid looks up to. You'll often hear 'oneesan' when there's no real blood ties, but just a bond of friendship. The same with 'oniisan', but for boys)
Imouto - my little sister
Imoutosan - another person's little sister

Yay, thanks. Gonna add them to the little dictionary.

Imouto...now that doujin I downloaded a few days ago makes sense. :X

[Elin]

Hanzo Kuuriichan?

Um... Hanzu Kuriisuchian. Or something. I don't know exactly how your name is pronounced, though. ^_~;

[Fer!]

I too am heading for bed. Gotta get up early work WORK! Why do I have to work to earn money? Can't people just send me money on daily basis? :\

GOOD NIGHTY!

YOU WORK?

IMPRESSIVE!

Night!

[MasterOfGravity]

Um... Hanzu Kuriisuchian. Or something. I don't know exactly how your name is pronounced, though. ^_~;

Well, I was close only 8 letters wrong

[Elin]

Yay, thanks. Gonna add them to the little dictionary.

Imouto...now that doujin I downloaded a few days ago makes sense. :X

...dear me, I shan't ask.

For the sake of completeness, you might as well take down 'otouto' and 'otoutosan' as well (little brother). And 'ani', which is to 'oniisan' what 'ane' is to 'oneesan'. And 'chichi' is the other word for father, along with 'otousan', which you already have.

Ganbatte kudasai~

[kupo]

Just checked and apparently it's getting released next week. Excellent...

505 Games sent out a press release some time ago, about several things. One of them was that WA5 had been delayed until the beginning of 2008, unfortunately. I don't know about the art book, but since it hasn't been mentioned anywhere, it seems like we won't get it

[Elin]

Well, I was close only 8 letters wrong

To be honest, it's really just a way of representing your name with the limited amount of sounds that the Japanese language has, anyway. ^_~ And a way of allowing you to write it in Japanese characters.

I'm lucky. My name, 'Edouin', retains basically the same sound anyway.

[Elin]

I too am heading for bed. Gotta get up early work WORK! Why do I have to work to earn money? Can't people just send me money on daily basis? :\

GOOD NIGHTY!

Nighty night.

[Evans]

Goota go to bed peeps. I have work tomorrow! A teacher I am

I too am heading for bed. Gotta get up early work WORK! Why do I have to work to earn money? Can't people just send me money on daily basis? :\

GOOD NIGHTY!

Sleep tight, sexies!