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StudioToledo
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 Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:03 pm
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| Chagen46 wrote: | | I have a feeling the English won't be CORRECT at all...because apparently that's what happened the last time. |
Well it's "Real Otaku English", so make what you will of that! 
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bglassbrook
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:50 pm
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As much as this show seems to scream for a reverse-importation joke, I cannot decide whether supporting or discouraging is funnier. Should be interesting to see if this gets licensed (come on CR, time to prove if you'll really take the kitchen sink or not.)
Either way, let me know when they get to the episode where they fight against the ninjas of the Silent Letter village.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:53 pm
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| StudioToledo wrote: |
| Chagen46 wrote: | | I have a feeling the English won't be CORRECT at all...because apparently that's what happened the last time. |
Well it's "Real Otaku English", so make what you will of that! |
Imagine a show like this but teaching Japanese to Western otaku! It could be like that SNL clip! 
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Mohawk52
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:11 pm
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| enurtsol wrote: |
| StudioToledo wrote: |
| Chagen46 wrote: | | I have a feeling the English won't be CORRECT at all...because apparently that's what happened the last time. |
Well it's "Real Otaku English", so make what you will of that! |
Imagine a show like this but teaching Japanese to Western otaku! It could be like that SNL clip! |
Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? 
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TitanXL
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:27 pm
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| Mohawk52 wrote: | Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? |
No.
Not that it'd matter. The reason so many American stereotypes are like that is because they're just that, stereotypes Japan think represent America. The liberal use of swearing by American is where they get that idea from. They also look at our crime rate so a lot of instances of America usually show mugging or dangerous looking people.
If you want a real reversal situation of "how America would do this about Japan", it'd probably play up the "everyone knows kung fu/is super smart/advanced technology/Japan is always attacked by Godzilla and other anime-things like big eyes and giant robots". "Japan swears a lot" isn't really a stereotype America has of Japan. It'd be more like that episode of Dexter's Laboratory where he becomes a student in Japan and all the kids/teachers at his school have giant robots for no reason.
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StudioToledo
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:31 pm
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| TitanXL wrote: |
| Mohawk52 wrote: | Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? |
No. |
And I'm glad it stayed way.
| Quote: | | Not that it'd matter. The reason so many American stereotypes are like that is because they're just that, stereotypes Japan think represent America. The liberal use of swearing by American is where they get that idea from. They also look at our crime rate so a lot of instances of America usually show mugging or dangerous looking people. |
Sad really.
| Quote: | | If you want a real reversal situation of "how America would do this about Japan", it'd probably play up the "everyone knows kung fu/is super smart/advanced technology/Japan is always attacked by Godzilla and other anime-things like big eyes and giant robots". "Japan swears a lot" isn't really a stereotype America has of Japan. It'd be more like that episode of Dexter's Laboratory where he becomes a student in Japan and all the kids/teachers at his school have giant robots for no reason. |
We're no better!
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Mohawk52
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:57 am
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| StudioToledo wrote: |
| TitanXL wrote: |
| Mohawk52 wrote: | Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? |
No. |
And I'm glad it stayed way. |
I'm afraid you might be shocked to learn they do, but not in a way most westerners would easily recognise. It's more subtle than crass and hardcore in-your-face.
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StudioToledo
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:43 am
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| Mohawk52 wrote: |
| StudioToledo wrote: |
| TitanXL wrote: |
| Mohawk52 wrote: | Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? |
No. |
And I'm glad it stayed way. |
I'm afraid you might be shocked to learn they do, but not in a way most westerners would easily recognise. It's more subtle than crass and hardcore in-your-face. |
Still that sounds OK with me.
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Polycell
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:53 am
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| Mohawk52 wrote: |
| StudioToledo wrote: |
| TitanXL wrote: |
| Mohawk52 wrote: | Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? |
No. |
And I'm glad it stayed way. |
I'm afraid you might be shocked to learn they do, but not in a way most westerners would easily recognise. It's more subtle than crass and hardcore in-your-face. |
Well, tabernac!
EDIT: Helps if I make clear what I'm responding to/joking about, doesn't it?
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Chagen46
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:39 pm
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And I'm glad it stayed way.
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This statement makes the inner Linguistics professor in me cry.
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DavidShallcross
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:47 pm
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| Mohawk52 apparently wrote: | Does the Japanese language have as many volgar words as English? |
I think I'm missing a joke. The only vulgar Japanese words I know are kuso and manko, but there is a larger vocabulary of "rough speech" that indicates the speaker's contempt for the listener.
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