kyuuketsukirui
2004-01-21 07:20 am UTC (link)

"fusakenai yo, bitches."

This would probably be a lot funnier if I knew Japanese.

Funny in the way that you're laughing at him because he obviously thinks he's so cool for knowing Japanese when what he said doesn't make any sense. :p

What he probably meant to say was fuzakeruna, which means like quit dicking around.

But instead of sounding cool, he just sounds lame.

*Nelson voice* Haha!

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	smo 2004-01-21 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	What he probably meant to say was fuzakeruna, which means like quit dicking around. I am so saying that to my brother next time he hogs the shower. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ataniell93
2004-01-21 04:47 pm UTC (link)

Hmmm. *scratches head* I've seen "fuzaken ja ne" for "Screwing around, isn't that?" in a Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi song lyric, but I don't think I've ever seen "fuzakenai". (The Japanese are infamous for dropping syllables when they slangify stuff, to give the idiot credit he probably doesn't deserve.) I'm going to guess it's baka-droppings but it could be dialect or something he heard in anime that he THINKS is dirty because it got translated as "fuck off". While dubs and official subs tend to minimize stuff, translating "kuso" (shit) as "damn" and the like, fansubs tend to make stuff dirtier in my experience. *shrug*

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	musette 2004-01-21 07:52 am UTC (link)
	Dayum, only vaguely related but a couple posts before that one you get some /extremely/ wanky "I don't want to learn French, I hate the French language, blah blah, but I'm still going to go study in GENEVA and think I can not learn it" wank. ::mutters obnoxiously:: Tu as une vache tête, buddy! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ladybirdsleeps 2004-01-21 08:06 am UTC (link)
	I didn't think that one was all that wanky, really -- sometimes languages just don't appeal to you. She'll learn some French whether she likes it or not just by living there, but intensively studying a language you don't like is probably a recipe for disaster. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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musette
2004-01-21 08:27 am UTC (link)

It wasn't the not wanting to learn the language part that was wanky per se, it was the attitude of utter refusal to want to even try even though Geneva is a French speaking area.

[This French thing is really an isolated case of a language I'd go out of my way not to study. I suppose it wont make sense to most, but its just something I consider really undesirable. However I imagine I'll just have to get over my big fat French boycott. Maybe I might even begin to like it! Scary thought.]

That part struck me as wanky, but being a Francophone/Francophile and having to have dealt with the utterly moronic anti-French sentiment the past year or so, I'm probably being vastly oversensitive.

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	ladybirdsleeps 2004-01-21 09:22 am UTC (link)
	You definitely are being oversensitive. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2004-01-21 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	Well at least I have the good sense to admit it. Though it would have been much more to form in these parts to just wank away anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2004-01-21 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	Don't worry, she'll get over it. The power of French compels her! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2004-01-21 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	Bwahah, I need an icon of that! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-01-21 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Hee, me too! Who should we put on it? Napoleon? thinks (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2004-01-21 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Napoleon would work. Or Liberty from the Delacroix Liberty Leading the People. She's kinda scary. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-01-21 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Heh. The power of French boobies! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2004-01-21 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	sporfle The power of French boobies compels you! That's almost better. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2004-01-21 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	Now we just need someone who knows how to make such an icon to hook us up. looks around hopefully (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: musette 2004-01-21 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	If I wasn't buried in pages and pages of theory exercises, I'd do it myself, but um... I am. looks forlorn (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Fear not, ma petite! lurker32 2004-01-21 07:32 pm UTC (link)
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	Re: Fear not, ma petite! musette 2004-01-21 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	glomps you That RULES! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Fear not, ma petite! lurker32 2004-01-21 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	The Lurker aims to please. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Fear not, ma petite! musette 2004-01-22 01:52 am UTC (link)
	And please you do. g (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Fear not, ma petite! smo 2004-01-21 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	Je vous aime! Je vous kiss! Mwah! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Fear not, ma petite! lurker32 2004-01-21 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh la la! (Reply to this)(Parent)

rann
2004-01-21 10:51 am UTC (link)

True. Some people like studying languages to see how other languages and such have influenced and interacted with them, or how they've adapted, etc.
The French REFUSE to allow any non-French words to enter their language... or at least, they're doing their best to keep it from happening. It's gotten to the point where they've forbidden any government workers to use foreign names for things. You can't call it a CD, you can't call it the internet, stuff like that.
(The really funny thing is, sometimes stuff will come out, and they won't have come up with an "official" French word for it, yet... so I wonder, do the French government workers have to stand around at the water cooler going, "Oui, oui, I just bought one of those new... uh... um... thingies?")

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smo
2004-01-21 01:45 pm UTC (link)

Actually, that's just the Academie Francaise that wants to keep all foreign words out. Actual French people could give a shit. I've heard French peppered with words from languages ranging from Italian ("Cin-cin!") to Arabic ("Chouia," "Kif-kif") to English ("Tu veux un steak, toi?" "Okay!"). In this case, the will of the government is definitely not to be conflated with the will of the people.

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	bubosquared 2004-01-21 12:10 pm UTC (link)
	But if she doesn't want to learn French, why (how!) is she going to study in Geneva? I mean, I don't like the German language, which for some bizarre reason refused to click in my brain, but I don't go to Berlin to study. Perhaps not wanky, but definitely odd, to me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

ladybirdsleeps
2004-01-21 01:39 pm UTC (link)

Probably because she likes the programs offered at the university there? Besides, her entire post was concerned with the question of whether or not studying French was necessary for her to succeed and get around in Geneva; she didn't make the assumption that it's not.

I think she's probably looked into what language the classes are taught in. If not, I'd pay to see the look on her face when she got there.

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	iris 2004-01-21 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	shrugs I'm learning Japanese, but I'd honestly rather go study in China if I had the option. ...on the other hand, I'd gladly learn Chinese if I thought I actually had the brainpower to learn a tonal language. But I'm pretty sure I don't, so... (Reply to this)(Parent)