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Originally posted by: theredbaron
How do you find the time to watch so much anime?!

Oh, and desu does have an English equivalent: it is.

I belive I may be what they call a Hikikomori.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Right, I guess (according to my reasearch) desu can mean 'it is' when used in that way, but its meaning fluctuates with the setence.

Which is why I seriously don't want to try and learn the language.


The language, in the grand spectrum of languages, isn't actually all that difficult to learn. The fact that you aren't using or pronouncing English letters in foreign ways makes things unbelieveably easier. And it rarely deviates from the rules. A very logical language, all things considered.

'Desu' is for all intensive purposes, a verb meaning 'it is'. 'Deshita' is the past tense of the same verb, meaning 'it was'. 'Deshoo' is the future tense of the verb, meaning 'it will probably be'. And so on and so forth.
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If you say so.

Anyway, what pointless number does this make me now?

9347? Okay, not that long to go before Spirithood.

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Originally posted by: theredbaron
How do you find the time to watch so much anime?!


Most otaku I've seen spend more time fantasizing about the women in the anime rather than watching the anime itself.

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Originally posted by: theredbaron
How do you find the time to watch so much anime?!


Most otaku I've seen spend more time fantasizing about the women in the anime rather than watching the anime itself.


Anime watchers are dirty dirty perverts and should be shot.
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: TheSessler
Originally posted by: theredbaron
How do you find the time to watch so much anime?!


Most otaku I've seen spend more time fantasizing about the women in the anime rather than watching the anime itself.


Anime watchers are dirty dirty perverts and should be shot.


*starts to load his .357*
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
What ever you do don't say this guys name.

Or this guy's (five times while looking into a mirror) ...
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http://www.u-blog.net/hide1983/img/films-beetlejuice.jpg

You can't say this guy's name three times. He's the one you have to really worry about.
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
'Deshoo' is the future tense of the verb, meaning 'it will probably be'.


Hmnnn not quite. I wouldn't specify it as being a future tense. Technically, there is no future tense in japanese.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: theredbaron
'Deshoo' is the future tense of the verb, meaning 'it will probably be'.


Hmnnn not quite. I wouldn't specify it as being a future tense. Technically, there is no future tense in japanese.


It pretty much is, you know, that's why I phrased it as 'it will probably be' - they use 'deshoo' in the weather forecasts. "It will probably be sunny".

'Ikimashoo' or 'ikkoo' means 'let us go', which technically is a future action.

They might not teach this stuff in Japanese lessons but I didn't learn this stuff in my Japanese lessons - I learnt it from living there and using the language.
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Wait... So if there is no future tense, how do you express future actions in Japanese?

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Very carefully...

There is no lingerie in space…

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Wait. Wait. I have one more. It's my geek answer!

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Wait... So if there is no future tense, how do you express future actions in Japanese?


With Gundams!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Wait... So if there is no future tense, how do you express future actions in Japanese?


Well, you use nouns like 'tomorrow', 'future', etc. at the beginning of the sentence - it's just with the verbs, the best you can do is suggest a future action, I guess you could say.

e.g. "Tomorrow it will probably be sunny." "ashita, hare deshoo."
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There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
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I really haven't paid any attention to the rankings lately I belive we are all equal. But then again some of us are more equal.

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Animal Farm?
I just hate stupid people.

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