It was Deadfire that provided the lesson about honorifics, but no big deal.Originally Posted by Winged Dancer
Actually, what Kraco explaines is all pretty correct except for "shi", and mostly because "shi" isn't very used... it's somewhat archaic.
In defense of them, I took English during all of grade school and highschool, and didn't learn a thing. Nobody learns anything at highschool
(How did I learn English then, you ask? Reading. With a dictionary.)
Your English is great, so you must have learned something in your years of study. I still think it's a lack of confidence in using the language that keeps most Japanese from trying to speak English. Are you one of the many Japanese whose families emigrated to South America in the 1940s?
Let's get back on topic:
Lesson 3 : Curse Words
There's not many of them in the Japanese language, so you'll hear the same ones often:
baka, bakayarou: stupid, idiot
aho: Okinawan version of baka
urusai, urusai na: shut up, be quiet, you're too noisy (so shut up), you're too fussy (so shut up)
You'll see the term "bastard" in subtitles a lot, and the Japanese word sounds like "tim-may". I thought maybe they were saying "kimi" drawn out, like "Yooouuu {bastard}," but I'm not so sure. Can anyone answer this?
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