Hey, can anyone tell me how to say \"Future of the Net\" in Japanese? I have an idea of what it is, but I can\'t be sure.

[quote]Originally posted by AirMan

I said:

\"Hello.

Let us cling together
As the years go by
Oh my love, my love.
In the quiet of the night
Let our candle always burn
Let us never lose the lessons we have learned\"

I believe that\'s what the verse translates to.

[Edited on 12-9-2004 by AirMan] [/quote]

Konichiwa is hello, but I\'m pretty sure that would be Mandarin Chinese.

Oops, forgot about the wo.....
Konnichi Wa, is Good After noon.

Mine are Baka (You fool!) and tsu (Sh*t!)
Sorry if this insults people.

My apologies if I\'m being rude, but I can\'t help but correct that.. ><;; Don\'t know if the typo demon got you or somewhat, but I\'m pretty sure that \'aoi\' means blue. o.x;; :: Hides before getting whacked upside the head. :: <_<;; >_>;;

Ano, there\'s too many Japanese words to choose from, but I\'ve always loved the word AKA! I hope most of you know why. .-.;; Another one of my favorite words is \'ichigo\', which means strawberry. :33;; Strawberry... :: Hops off to the kitchen. ::

Typos, ARGHH!!
I meant to post the word lives in another topic but instead I pressed \"O\" in place of \"I\" and it ended being loves.
Thanks for pointing it out, I\'ll edit my post now.

Mine Is baka.



I\'M A BAKA

I\'m pretty sure ����ɂ��� (konnichiwa) just means hello, not good afternoon. You all likely got that idea because there are seperate greetings for morning and night, but I don\'t think konnichiwa actually means good afternoon. And no MegaX.exe, it is Japanese, not Mandarin Chinese.

���� �� �l�b�g (Mirai no netto)

I think. I\'m not 100% sure, but I\'m pretty sure that\'d be it. I might be wrong though.



No, no it doesn\'t. Windrider got it right, it\'s the expression used for goodnight. I don\'t know where you got the idea that it means \"goodnight, everybody,\" but it certainly isn\'t correct.



Actually, ao was correct for blue. Aoi is correct as well. Colors might have an ��/�� (i/no) attached depending on it\'s usage in a sentence. For ao, you add �� (i). Same with aka. But for say, like midori or murasaki, you add a ��(no).

It doesn\'t seem like many of you have actually really studied the Japanese language to me with some of your responses. You should if you get the chance though, it\'s fun.

My teacher taught me to say it Aoi.....and not Ao......

That means that Time Magazine was wrong. w00t!

BTW, Mirai no Netto sounds about right.

Mirai meaning future, Netto meaning Net

the \'no\' used in the same context as well, Yami no Malik, meaning Darkness of Malik. Thus I would assume \'no\' at least in that context would mean \'of\'

No, konichiwa IS good afternoon. It can be hello but only in the afternoon. I have greetings on a paper but I don\'t remember all of them, but konichiwa is good afternoon.

Well, I was almost right about what future of the net was in Japanese. I thought it was netto no mirai. Different instances in anime and anime lyrics made me think the word being described came first, one specifically came from an English translation of the Inuyasha song Ai no Uta, which on the site I saw was translated to Song of Love. But we all (or at least those who have read through this topic) know that ai means love, not uta. You can see where I got confused.

I\'d like to study the Japanese language, but I\'d probably end up confused and stuff. I already have a hard time with English. ._.;;

Can someone tell me some things?

Addressing:
Sister
Brother
Mother
Father

Phrases:
Happy birthday

Thanks in advance!

I said that �‚� (aoi) is correct, as is �� (ao). If your teacher is telling you otherwise, I\'m sorry, he/she is teaching you wrong.



Well, I said I might have been wrong, I\'m not entirely sure. �� �� �� (Ai no Uta) doesn\'t have to be necessarily translated to Song of Love, I believe that it could be translated as Love\'s Song. In the series Rurouni Kenshin, when characters refer to Himura Battousai being a legendary manslayer, he\'s referred to as �`�� �� �l���� (densetsu no hitokiri), and the subtitle has it translated as \"Legendary Manslayer\".

*shrug*

���� �� �l�b�g (Mirai no netto) might not be what you were wanting, I\'m not sure. The �� (no) indicates that one object belongs to the other. I decided that the future should belong to the net, so I put it as I did. Still, I could have done it wrong, it\'s been a long time since I\'ve done this. Sorry. =o



sister- (��)�o�[���� ((o)nee-san)
That\'s what you would call your older sister if you were talking to her. I\'m sorry though, I\'m not sure what you would call your younger sister when talking to her. I know what it\'d be when talk to others about her, which would be �� (imouto).

brother- (��)�Z�[���� ((o)nii-san) is how you would address an older brother when talking to him. I\'m sorry though, I\'m not sure what you would call your younger brother when talking to him. I know what it\'d be when talk to others about him, which would be �� (itouto).

father- �������� (otousan) is how you would address your father by to him. To others, you would address him as �� (chichi).

mother- ���ꂳ�� (okaasan) is how you would address your mother to her. To others, you would address her as �� (haha).

I\'m not really sure if the �� (o) is absolutely necessary before mother and father(talking to them), but it does indicate you\'re giving them more respect, which is never a bad idea with your parents. Still, it might be, I\'m not exactly sure. And of course, like you should already know, san can always be replaced by something else at the end.

I\'m pretty sure that �a���� ���߂��Ƃ� (tanjoubi omedatou) is the Japanese expression for Happy Birthday.

Yikes. I wouldn\'t have said \"konnichiwa\" if I thought it\'d cause this much trouble.

I\'m not 100% sure if it\'s just sister in General or a younger sister but I\'m thinking it would be Shimai


Airman you and I(and anyone else that knows Japanese) know that Konnichiwa means hello it CAN be used at anytime of the day but is just most commonly used afternoon, and that is my understand of the word.



[Edited on 18-9-2004 by J_Hibiki]

Heh! It\'s mine, too, although my word is not one that can be trusted. I know little more than Ai and Konnichiwa. I only know what I said because it\'s a song.

hmm well don\'t worry Airman you are right about what it means ok

OKAY time for another Lssson form Jay

today we are \"On the Phone\"
person A is the one being called(we are going to pretend that this is a parent or something)
Person Jay is the caller
**Phone rings**
A: moshi moshi?(Hello?)
Jay: Moshi moshi, Jay desukedo Aya(chan, kun or san) wa? ( Hello, this is Jay is Aya ther?)

Pattern A Aya is home
A: Hai, chotto omachi kudasai (Yes Hold on)

Pattern B Aya is not home
A: Aya wa ima dekake terundesuyo. Gomennasai ne(Aya is not here. I\'m sorry)
Jay: wakarimashita ( I see)
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these are somethings Jay(person can say after that
nanji goro Aya wa kaette kimasuji?(what time will Aya come home?)

Aya ni denwa no koto tutaetekuremasen ka (willl you tell Aya that I called?)

Jya mata kakena o shimasu (well I will call back.)

wow that was alot longer than I thought it would be...and I\'m thinking it\'s not going to make any sence to anyone but me...anyway if you need help understanding it you can PM me



[Edited on 18-9-2004 by J_Hibiki]

[Edited on 18-9-2004 by J_Hibiki]

yin and yang *good and evil*

Shitake *japanese mushroom with a funny reminding name

I seem to have made a mistake Hidari means left not right :conf: now I feel mostly retarded.

Hey! It\'s just a typo! Anyone could see that, unless they have two rights.

yup yup but I thought I had looked at that for typos oh well mistakes will be made I guess.

my favorite jan word is baka

mine is Baka

Okay, this topic has been most useful for me to learn Jap. words, but I\'d like to learn some more, and since I don\'t want to start a new topic on it, which will probably be closed with a reference towards this one, I\'ll just bump.

Can somebody please tell me what \'chan\' and \'kun\' mean? They\'re put after names, but I don\'t know what they mean.

Those are suffixes. I believe \"Kun\" is a small sign of respect, and \"Chan\" is a friendly term of familiarity. I could be slightly wrong, but that\'s my understanding.

My lasted favorite Japanese word to say is \"Bakayarou.\" Translated, it means, \"Idiot!\" Exclamation point included.

Some others I like to remember are \"Haruka\" Which, in general terms, means \"Far off,\" or \"far away\" and \"Hoshizora\" which is a description of a star-filled sky.

-Ri

Sorry to correct you, but Bakayarou is


And earlier, the months. Their wrong. At the end of each month its \"Gatsu\" not \"Gatu\"

\"Tu\" is not used. It would be \"tsu\"

Mine is Sony <.<

I don\'t speak Japaniese. I\'m afraid of the country.

Kisama is my favorite word. Basically means bastard ;P There\'s also kuso and baka