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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2008, 07:05:41 AM »
First of all, helping a native English speaker learn English is never ridiculous.

...Engish...

So, did you mean English?  ;D
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2008, 09:28:26 PM »
In some cases 'no?' would work.  But it encompasses many phrases in English and none of them have the same exact meaning as 'ne'.  It's more like expressing some minor doubt that you are correct.

As in.

This thread was rezzed for no reason ne?
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2008, 11:32:15 PM »
First of all, helping a native English speaker learn English is never ridiculous.

...Engish...

So, did you mean English?  ;D

:D


In some cases 'no?' would work.  But it encompasses many phrases in English and none of them have the same exact meaning as 'ne'.  It's more like expressing some minor doubt that you are correct.

As in.

This thread was rezzed for no reason ne?


Ah!  Well I generally see the ellipses followed by a question mark.   ie:  This thread was rezzed for no reason...?

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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2008, 12:15:22 AM »
I don't see why "no" can't work as well there.
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2008, 12:18:10 AM »
I don't see why "no" can't work as well there.

Using "no?" at the end of a declarative statement is like saying "Am I wrong?"   So you are correct. *nods & hastily writes OOKLA08 on a sign*

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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2008, 04:07:34 AM »
There's also the Canadian "eh?"
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2008, 03:13:30 PM »
There's also the Canadian "eh?"
I've thought of that one, but I'm pretty sure that people in Idaho would look at me like I was insane. ha ha.
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2008, 05:16:12 PM »
I've thought of that one, but I'm pretty sure that people in Idaho would look at me like I was insane. ha ha.

I'm sure they think nothing of it if you periodically insert Japanese words into your conversation.   ;)
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2008, 10:43:55 PM »
I've thought of that one, but I'm pretty sure that people in Idaho would look at me like I was insane. ha ha.

I'm sure they think nothing of it if you periodically insert Japanese words into your conversation.   ;)


white person saying eh? = eh.
white person saying anything randomly in japanese = total nerd and a lot of people might consider them racist.

I'd go with eh, if I were you, la. :)

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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2008, 06:09:21 AM »
Actually my friends and I tend to randomly insert Japanese words into our English all the time.  I guess that's PROBABLY why I say ne a lot.  Actually we speak mostly Japanese with random English words if truth be told.  So yeah, ha ha.
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2008, 03:39:04 PM »
I didn't realize there was such a large Japanese population in Idaho.
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2008, 09:12:25 PM »
I didn't realize there was such a large Japanese population in Idaho.

Or as the Japanese would say,いさ.

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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2008, 09:26:31 PM »
Actually, I daho could be done.  It would just be いだほ.  But then again, if you were to show that to them, they'd go "Nani?!"
"The custom of royalty in referring to oneself is to naturally employ the royal 'we'.  We are very happy, we are very sad, we are bored and suffer from ennui.  For a royal prince there's no such word as 'me', It's always 'we'.  So rightfully I should be two or three, don't you agree?"

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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2008, 09:35:08 PM »
whoa, I got the first glyph right!! Is that what they are called, glyphs? pictographs? runes? symbols?
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Re: What would YOU like to see on the warbreaker cover?
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2008, 11:10:18 PM »
whoa, I got the first glyph right!! Is that what they are called, glyphs? pictographs? runes? symbols?

No. No. No. No.  Those are "letters" just the same as A, B, C or D.

If, on the other hand, you started typing kanji-- 日本-- they would be "characters".
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