Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 124

Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 124
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(4 ^ヮ^) Let's have milk tea and chat!
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Previous Thread:
Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 123
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1228921244/

Hey!!! you NEETs, nerds, YouＴube-link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis,
Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers,
Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters,
Big-boobs fans, Weeaboos from all around the world, learners of Japanese
who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, cunning
linguists, and Admins of deserted imageboards. And let's celebrate the comeback of the Internet-addicted
housewife!

Here is the place to have a blast!!!!

Kilroy was here!

>>1
Good-job

Previous Thread:
Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 123
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1229137421/

fix'd
^^;

>>1
Good job! Thank you!

>>1
Hey, the cat's got your face! Are you going to host us?

>>5 np ^^

>>6 はい〜！^^

>>1
The cat face is strange. Don't change it without any concensus, you idiot!

****** Quick guide to Americans here *******

* keira=robotintokyo (California)
A woman who once announced that she'd start vlogging. She went to buy a webcam but the
nearest shop is on the north pole, and she hasn't come back yet. Maybe attacked by
a porlar bear or now ended up living in Greenland. She might be robotingreenland now.
"robotintokyo" is a part of her blog's URL.

* ベイエリア人 (California)
A man who claims he leads a reclusive lifestyle. Nice man who answeres
our questions in another thread. His dream is to bungee jump from the
Golden Gate bridge.

* tennessian (Tennessee)
A man who loves Japanese culture and wants to go out with Japanese exchange students
in his university. Although he doesn't give a shit studying Japanese, he wants to have
a good time as a gaijin in Japan. So checking ALT's (assistant language teacher) blogs
to know what their lives are like is his daily routine. The winner of the 28th Elvis
impersonator contest. His favorite CD is House remix of Elvis's tunes.
Devoted Dixie Chicks fan.

* アメリカ人 (Chicago)
Man with panty fetish. His goal is to get full schalorship from one of the IV League
universities or USC, scientology or scatology major.
Learning Japanese but not so serious about it.
When he gets nervous before an exam, he sniffs his host sister's panty to relax.
It's said that lots of bras and panties were gone when he left his host
family's house. He knows how to choose the best and ideal host family to stay with.
His advice to students who wants to homestay in Japan is that the first thing they have
to do on arriving host family's home is to make sure where the washing machine is.
He is an active spammer on Japanprobe and Japundit. Cheerful and outgoing.

* crystal (California)
ESL teacher wannabe. Kind enough to answer our English questions. Loves
Japanese pop culture. A tad more serious than アメリカ人　but not so serious
about studying Japanese. She loves Japan and things Japanese but draws a fine line
between weeaboos and herself. Thinks it's a good idea to live in Japan but not
longer than one year. She believes that being away from her boyfriend for such a
long time deteriorates their relationship. Loves to play catch with her mom.
She loves spicy hot Orochon ramen noodles. She likes it in spicy level 9.
(extremely hot)

* jook (california)
Tech-savvy. Nobody knows more about the US cell phone industry than him.
He's so tech-savvy that he can text message or give a call even when his cell phone
is turned off. Nice enough to answer our English questions here and in another thread.
Loves to sleep with his girlfriend behind his parents' eyes.
Desperate to shave his girlfriend's pubic hair.
He drinks Jooky instead of Coke.　将 is one of his favorite kanji and he uses stylized 将
as wallpaper. Next kanji candidate to be used as a wallpaper is 剃.
He calls himself 男伊達.(dandy guy)

*【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】ミ田 (Louisiana)
A boy also known as Sparky who lives only in cyber space. Sometimes you have a feel
that it's easier to communicate with cats and dogs than him. Some says he's a gifted troll
but he insists he's gifted in science and math. Administrator of deserted image boards.
It's said that his Windows Me PC calculates 4 times faster than IBM's Deep Blue.

* 米人（Boston)
Red Sox fan. Lived for a year in a rehabilitation facility to cure her
Internet addiction. Now she has developed game addiction and every time
she spots her kids playing Guirtar Hero, she snatches the console from them
and plays it on her own. Actually, she ties them up with ropes and kicks them away into
the closet until she finishes playing the game. She loves chatting here more than
taking care of her family. She's nice enough to give some good advice to learners of
Japanese. Besides, she is greatly admired as virtual mom by posters here.
Her quality time is when she reads Boston Globe over coffee on a beautiful Sunday morning,
with her husband and kids locked in the closet.

* Ether (Florida)
Has travelled to Japan. Taller than 6 feet and blond. Drives a jaloppy.
There's a framed photo of two sumo wrestlers he saw during his vist to Japan on the wall
of his room. His penis was bitten off by a gigantic aligator while he was taking a nap
naked in the backyard. His mom is on the FBI's missing people's list.
On the day he saw her last, he saw a huge alligator with its stomach
swollen disappearing into a swamp.

* Captain Spicard (Florida)
Born in upstate NY. Guardian of Sparky. He came all the way from 4chan to take him back to his
original playground. The author of "Training and Taming Sparky for Dummies." Doesn't give
a shit studying Japanese but doesn't mind helping Japanese English learners.
He's a pro websurfer with 13 web browsers installed. There's a wig in the living room
of his house in NY which he used to wear for a costume party on Halloween. Atheist.
(Rumor has it that he gets extremely excited when he opens a window of his advent calender
every morinig.)

* linger (Massachusetts)
Born and raised in Massachusetts.
Nice enough to answer questions about English.
He claims he has a 3.76 college GPA.
He doesn't give a damn about learning Japanese. Spanish is the only language he's
interested in learning. His goal in life is becoming an illegal immigrant in Mexico or Spain.

* firestar(Pennsylvania）
Devoted fan of Mac laptop PC with multi-touch trackpad.
His major is computer information sciences.
He has installed 2ch browser, meaning ready to get addicted to 2ch.
Loves netsurfing with a subway sandwitch in his mouth.
His hero is Rocky Balboa.

<Other nationalities>

* イギリス人(UK)
Foreigners come and go but he is the longest term resident here.
Diplomat's spoiled sun. He has lived in several countries as a child and now he has no clues
where he's from. He's nice and sincere enough to answer even stupid English questions.
He's been lurking since he got a job in web design. (He's busy.) He was working on making
a new breed of PC virus to spread around the world on on Christmas but he ended up getting
infected with flu virus. He knows quite a lot about Japanese TV shows and movies.
He is a great cook. He loves to bake a chocolate cake. He loves to collect hats and buys
some on online auction but it's said that he doesn't pay for them one out of three times.
Every wall in his room is covered with posters of 広末涼子. (Ryoko Hirosue)

* スウェーデン人(Sweden)
He used to frequent this thread but now he doesn't seem to be able to access to 2ch.
2ch has been denying accesses from Sweden or of people with se. IP address.
His English proficiency is almost perfect and was nice enough to answer questions of us
English learners. He's thinking about studying in university in Japan.

That face(>>1) is very-very cute. Don't you thinks so ?
It's okay unless this remains forever.
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( ´･ω･)
( つ旦O　
と＿)＿)　
Surely, this is the traditional face of this thread and is one of the histories here !
Everyone recognizes this!
But this change is a bit interesting.

>>8
thats me!

But ummm, you shoud have gained a consensus, maybe,
in order to avoid conflicts.

>>1
You jumped the gun, Sparky. The last thread still has a ways to go.

>>10
剃? Shave?
...Oh right. I didn't get the joke until I was actually writing this down.
Heh. I was gonna ask why I would use that, but now I got it.

Aaaaand... I'm back. Not that I really went anywhere.

>>17
I thought you had gone away a few times.
Well come!

>>17 hey captain spicard ^^

>>18
Well, I did, because I had to work yesterday, and the day before I was setting up an OS (debian) for my Eee Laptop.

>>19
Hello!

>>20
you know i love Linux and BSD
for being free and better than NT

>>21
Yeah, some people think die-hard linux fans are delusional about the advantages... but it's pretty easy to see what a difference linux makes when you are on a small laptop like the Eee.
Which makes me wonder why you use ME.

>>22
I'm not ready for unix yet

Windows Me is still usable ^^

i wish a small emulator existed for my dos programs and
the user interface has to be Windows 95 explorer.exe like

>>16
>剃

You got it!

http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1229137421/1000
IM GOING TO KILL YOU

http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1229137421/999
999ｷﾀｰ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ヾ（ヾ^ヮ^）(^ヮ^ﾉ)ﾉﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!!

>>25
Now, give me that knofe. Thanks.

Hey, Mr. short-fuse from the previous thread, "ass-hole" is where you came from. It's not me. Get that?

http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1229137421/999
999ｷﾀｰ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ヾ（ヾ^ヮ^）(^ヮ^ﾉ)ﾉﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!
2 times in a row!

http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1229137421/996
WHAT??????????
hmm ingesting

Don't mean nothing....

>>30
>interesting
fix'd

>>28
I will smash your pin-dick face in.

>>28
im just irritated because of school
and not getting a 1000 get since part 122

>>34
Happy now?

>>2
DOMOGO ROBOTO
MR. ROBOTO
http://4chan.b33r.net/my%20Music/Styx%20-%20Mr.%20Roboto.mp3

>>34
Hang on, just one more day^^ TGIF

American English has dialects too!
And we're proud of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language

Oddly enough, my place of origin didn't make the list. Of course, Boston is there.

>>4
4ｷﾀｰ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ヾ（ヾ^ヮ^）(^ヮ^ﾉ)ﾉﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!
VERY HAPPY ^^

http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1229137421/999
999ｷﾀｰ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ヾ（ヾ^ヮ^）(^ヮ^ﾉ)ﾉﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!

this also makes me very happy
A 999ｷﾀｰ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ヾ（ヾ^ヮ^）(^ヮ^ﾉ)ﾉﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!! is equal to 1000ｷﾀｰ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ヾ（ヾ^ヮ^）(^ヮ^ﾉ)ﾉﾟ･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!

>>38
Do you speak Bostonian English?

Be careful. sparky.
The one who attacks >>1 without no obvious reasons
appears on ths thread.
Prepare for the severe attacks from now ! Sparky !

oops,
without no obvious reasons
-> without obvious reasons

>>40
No, I'm not a native.
I recognize it when I hear it, but I can't really imitate it.

I keep trying to get sleep in during the day now that I am on Christmas break
from classes, but every morning someone wakes me up. I'm really getting pissed
off. Why are people waking up so early and bothering me?! Go away! I want to sleep
damnit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Southern comedian Jeff Foxworthy defines "redneck" as "a glorious lack of sophistication," stating "that we are all guilty of [it] at one time or another."
Ok Im definatly not a Redneck
wwwwwwwwww

My Japanese friends need to know about these people!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama

I have dual citizen ship you know!
ohh shi-
my Grandma from Panama is coming THIS SATURDAY!

>>30
osaka pepole tends to troll as much as Koreans do. That's why they are regarded as very annoying people in japan.

>>46
What is your dominant language?

>>43
I once rode a train from Boston to Framingham.
A conductor on the train did speak genuine Bostonian English.
That was really something.

http://kei.iichan.net/b/src/1229449524700.jpg
WTF JAPAN WTF
[That what makes Japan so fascinating ^^ in a good way^^ IT IS SO WIERDXD]
(not you people in this thread)

>>45

There is nothing glorious about being uneducated and inbreeding!

>>46
Go for having an allowance of Grandma

>>48
English ._.

Learning Spanish and Japanese
>>47 ohhhh i never knew that

HEY GUYS I NEED TO SLEEP IN ORDER TO GET OUT OF RAVER'S/PC HELL

An episode from the X-files came to my mind....

>>53
Oh, yeah your time zone is EST, right?

>>51
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww


night everyone!
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(4 ^ヮ^)ﾉｼ

>>55
CENTRAL TIME ZONE !

*all questions been answered*

>>54
What makes you so ?

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＼( ^ヮ^4)< Good-Night!

(I made a tough effort to make this face!

>>58
Inbreeding.... Do you remember an episode, "Home"? That was really a scary one. Does "Wonderful, wonderful" ring a bell?

>>50
Somehow I doubt that represents Japan as a whole.

woah sparky is OP

>His hero is Rocky Balboa.

what's this?
i have not even seen any of the movies

>>50
It's not usual thing even in Japan. don't take this seriously LOL

>>63
ohh ok
>>62
yes i am OP

I love the zombie apocalypse genre. Books, movies, games; I love them all.
I've seen just about everything there is too see with the zombie genre
which was made in the west. I doubt it, but there isn't any zombie apocalypse
shows, movies, or what have you in Japan, is there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_apocalypse

>>994 from part 123
I'd say maybe a bit more are taking Chinese. The most by far though take Spanish, and after that French.

Oh and keira if you're here, I'm so addicted to Los Campesinos. Coincidentally, my friend discovered them the same day you suggested them to me lol.
Also coincidentally, I was listening to them on the bus today while flipping through The Onion, and read an interview with a Los Campesinos band member. Hopefully I'll see them live in
February when they come to Chicago.

>>60
>Do you remember an episode, "Home"?
No, I don't. I remember UFO talks though...

Anyway, if I gain detailed information about that, I may remember it.

>>13
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(4 ^ヮ^) I will only be at >>1 when i start the part
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と＿)＿)　旦　旦　旦　旦　旦　旦　旦　旦

you will see me in >>1 when I start the part

When so someone else starts it
they can use
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( ´･ω･)
( つ旦O　
と＿)＿)　
<who is this?>

>>68
That is Mr. robot.

Sparky, you're not doing very well with your posting today.
Go look at the guidelines again.

I go to the hospital to have anti-influenza verus injected into my body.

Have you done yet ?

>>71 I got the new nasal-spray version of the flu vaccine.

>>72
No injection ?

>>73
Nope. No injection. I really hate injections.

>>74
That's a nice way..
I have to bear the fear of injection from now.
Bye.

I had to have two shots in a four-week interval just for flu vaccination.
Oh, man! That was really something....

How come Americans teaching English in Japan for so long look so dumb?
What kind of Americans come to Japan to work as English instructor?

Losers who have no future at all in America.

>>77
I've thought about it.
Be well paid and given a free place to live, meet new people, immerse myself in Japanese culture.
Oh, and teach some English young teens. Whatever.
Anyway, I think it could be fun.

>>77
From what i've heard it's like an even split between japanophiles and frat
boy types that just want to dick around in another country for a year.

I can easily see both types making idiots out of themselves.

>>79
Apply for a JET program. You'll get what you've been dreaming of.
But after you lotate back to America, you'll be angery about almost everything.

>>81
That was the plan.
I have heard from some people who have bad experiences. Maybe I would hate everything by the time I came hope.
I'd like to think I wouldn't, though. I'm very easy-going and optimistic.

>>82
A lot of them become depressed alcoholics due to isolation. If you arent careful the
whole thing could end up sucking.

Either have some native contacts or learn the language beforehand otherwise
you're setting yourself up for a shitty experience.

Darn! What I wrote was Engrish orz....

>>83
I've been studying Japanese for three years already. By the time I can do a JET program, it will be more than that.

>>84
I haven't seen any engrish. Just typos in >>81. Is that what you're talking about?

>>86
Yup.

I have not many but some American friends who I made friends with in Japan or when I did backpack travel before.
They came to Japan after college education and taught English, but they all left after one to 3 years time and
got a job or got back to college to study further.

But some Ameridcans have been staying here for ages... 7 years or more than 10 years.
They look so desperate to stay here and sometimes criticise Japan and the people harshly.
Then I have to wonder whay you are here for such a long time.

And it seems most of them teahcing at private classes not holding any particular qualification
to teach English to foreingers. But they call themselves English teacher and proud of themselfs so much.

Some of them even call themselves Samurai. Give me a break!!!

Anyway, thank you for your inputs guys!
I hope only reasonable people come to Japan and
once you come here, hope you enjoy your time here.
The culture here is quite different from that of yours though.

>>89
I visited Japan for 5 weeks last summer. The culture was very different.
But, I think getting used to Japan was easier than coming back to America.
People in Japan seemed nicer. You walk into a store there, and the clerks say "Hello, Welcome!"
Ask a stranger on the street for directions, and they'll try their darndest to help, even if they couldn't speak English.
They seemed to lighten up when I told them "日本語大丈夫ですよ。分かります。”
I even got used to everyone in Japan being Japanese, to the point that even I found it strange to see a foreigner.

On the other hand, when I got off the plane back in America, the first person I saw was a grumpy looking black woman.

I got out of the hospital. I was tough enough to endure the pain of injection. I didn't cry out like shit small kids. I'm samurai definitely.

>>90
Saying japan seems nicer than america really isnt much of a complement though.
Hell, just today i've had two people yelling at me for crossing the road and
one threatening to kill me. And i was only out for like a few hours.

Not that it's all bad, i did run into a nice if unintelligible homeless guy
who was decked out in a ton of wires and gadgets. Turns out someone in a car threw
a water bottle at him. Way to many assholes where i live.

>>92
Maybe people were extra nice to me because I'm foreign. I dunno.
Most of my time was in Fukuoka. I was on Tokyo for only a couple days, and didn't really interact with anyone during that time.

>>92
Are you in Japan by any chance?　Or you're talking about your home?

>>93
Hm. Most of Americans I know are really nice to others though.

I heard there were around 7,000 known living human languages, but I guess
English is the only language of which quite a few native speakers get annoyed when foreigners don't talk to them in the language.

There are so many English speakers out there, so it's understandable to assume tourists speak English to communicate in a non-English-speaking country.
This Russian guy talked to me in Japanese the other day, and when he couldn't make himself understood, he started speaking English in JAPAN. Go figure.

>>92
Idiots and assholes are everywhere.

>>95
I've heard the French get really pissed off if you don't speak French.

>>94
I live in Florida, Americas wang. Never been to Japan.

>>93
Maybe, maybe not. Can't say i'm an expert on the subject (see above).

>>97
Heh. I've been to Florida. It sucked.
'course, that was July. I've heard it's nicer in the winter.

>>96
i've heard that too.
same with the french canadians

>>96
Ah, French may be worse. PM refused to talk in English at a UN conference, if I remember correctly.
I saw a bunch of English signs when I went to Paris though.

>>99
But French Canadians speak English, don't they?

>>98
I've been to Florida in February. That was so nice. Was it too hot when you were there?

>>100
yes

>98
It's 50/50. Today was hot and muggy but a week ago it was great.

>>95
Thats true but i've been around and i've never met more assholes than i have
in america.

Of course my job takes me into the ghetto so i'm probably seeing the bad more
than the good i admit.

>>101
In July, there were thunderstorms every afternoon.
There were hundreds of mosquitos
and the humidity was ridiculously high.

I was in Fukuoka in June. Florida was much worse.

>>104
This wasn't in the same year, mind you.

how do I learn 3000+ 漢字？日本人の皆さん教えてくださいorz

...

>>104
It's often like that in the winter too. Hells worst thing about it is my appartment has
a mosquito infestation. I'm killing the little fuckers left and right while i'm sitting
at my PC but there is always more.

Seriously. Florida sucks. It's where old people come to die.

>>106
Gradually.
As you use kanji, you'll naturally learn the useful ones.
That's what's important. Keep in mind not all those 3,000 kanji are going to show up in every day situations.

>>108
Sunshine state. Puh. That's where I live.

>>109
orly? You're speaking from experience? How many do you know?
I know 1400 already and wanna know the rest ○|￣|＿

I don't want "everyday situations" "baka gaijin benkyou desu" I wanna be 1337
and understand everything and not be a 負け犬

>>104
Worse than Fukuoka?! Wow... Just wow.

>>103
>Thats true but i've been around and i've never met more assholes than i have
in america.

People try to hide assholes from tourists. It's the right thing and reasonable, I think.

>>106
You're not Japanese or Chinese?

>>106
Don't think, just feel.

>>111
I certainly don't know 1400.
I fear I must retract my statements and bow to your greater knowledge.

...But yes, that's been my experience.

>>112
if I was 中国人 I wouldn't have to learn 漢字, I'd ALREADY know 5000+

in before "kankokujin nida kekeke", no I'm not corean u rasist pigs

>>113
なるほど・・・the tanasinn way, might give it a shot! ありがとう！

>>112
True, but it isnt that i've just been a tourist. Hell, i wasnt even born in america.

But like i said it aint all bad here. I've probably met more.. interesting? Unique? Well different
people here than in any other country as well.

>>116
I just realized I'm definitely not able to write those everyday 2000 kanji.
I can recognize and read them, but I don't think I can write some of the most difficult ones without my laptop...

>>117
It seems Americans are diverse. You know what? Japan is known for its homogenous culture.

I'm currently going to community college.

There are certain classes you're required to take--
Hold on a second. That's not right. I'll try again.

There are certain classes of classes--
Uh-oh, I messed up again. One more time?

There are classes. These classes come in certain classes. To continue
to a higher college, you must take a certain number of classes from
each class of classes. Incidentally, there are classes that are
classified into multiple classes, but these classes can only be
classified into a single specific class of classes when you use these
classes of classes to go from community college classes to
college classes.

Does that work? Okay, then!

...

...

...

Ah.

Now I've forgotten what I was going to write about.

>>119
Very nice.

>>118
Yeah, i've heard that too. At least things are interesting eh?

>>119
You were classifying the classes of classes. Of these classes you must take a
certain amount of classes that can classify as many different classes. So
once you have these classes of classes classified y

Oh bloody hell i've gone cross eyed again.

>>116
No problemo.

>>119
My head is exploding.

>>119, >>121
Some classes of classes are classified differently from other classes, however.
It's important to take classes within the class that's what you want your own class to be.
thus, some classes are unimportant, while other classes are necessary.
Either way, the classification of each class of classes can vary depending on the class you aim for.

Or something.
Goodnight folks. My bed looks mighty tempting.

>>121
>At least things are interesting eh?

Maybe. I don't know. By the way, I've only heard "eh?" from Canadians or in scanlations.
Is it common in Florida too?

>You were classifying the classes of cla...

Stopped reading right there.

>>124
Sweet dreams.

>>119, >>121, >>124
This was cruel, wasn't it?

>>125
I say "eh?" all the time.
Of course, it should also be noted that I say "egads," and "alas" fairly regularly too.
I might not be the best example.

Now I'm out. Peace.

>125
No. It's something i picked up during my time in Canada and never really dropped.
People call me out on it all the time.

>Stopped reading right there.
Good call.

Ah, now I remember!

I only remembered while I was in the shower, so I'm typing this dressed
only in my underwear.

Now, one class I took in order to fill the requirements for a specific
class of classes was concerned with race, and how people tend to treat
other people differently based on race.

Anyway, the minority group we talked about most was, of course, African-Americans.
They're the most ostracized in American culture, so of course we talked about them.

But, I noticed something odd midway through the quarter.
Most of the class was Asian-American.

I don't think this says anything about African-Americans, though.
I just thought it was interesting.
Now that I think of it, most of the people I see on campus are
Asian-American, too.

>>129
>so I'm typing this dressed only in my underwear.

Stopped reading ther... Type your age and sex first. I may read the rest.

>>129
Interesting. Do you have any clue why the majority are Asians at your college?

>>119
I couldn't understand what you means but I can imagine.
You are in the same situation as hermione in Harry Potter, don't you.
In other words, you are very busy due to the great number of classes ?

>>129
I think it's odd people always bring up the blacks as the group that gets the most racism.
I mean i'm not saying it isnt there but i remember some years ago that i read an article
on racism and anti asian racism is there too. It's just that it's really different in the
sense that while a lot of people had good things to say about them they didnt want to work
with them. Like:

Oh, asians are really great business men!
But i'm sure not going to work for you.

Asians? Yeah they're pretty smart, good at running things.
But no way would i vote for one.

Asians? Yeah they're really family oriented. Good people.
But theres no way in hell you're marrying MY son/daughter.

It really surprised me.

Reading carefully, I could understand it.
But I couldn't understand the meaning of multiple class.

>>131
Yes, actually--it's because of where I live.
The Bay Area is the metropolitan area with the second-highest percent
of Asian-Americans.
According to the 2000 Census, it was18.4% Asian-American.
That doesn't sound like a lot, but it is compared to most of the United States

...But, why weren't there a lot of white people in that class?
I don't know

>>133
Compared to other people in the United States, I've lived
a very sheltered life.
In class, everyone was asked to remember a personal incident involving racism.

There were only one or two people who could not come up with an incident.
I was one of them.

Though, I like to think that it isn't because I'm sheltered, but because
I live in a very pleasant city.

>>135
What type of ethnic group do you belong to ?
and are you in your teens ?

>>136
I'm 18.
I've just started on the path to adulthood.
...or something philosophical-sounding like that.

I'm Asian-American.
I really can't say more than that without feeling honest.
Obviously, my parents came from specific countries.
However, I've never spent a significant amount of time in either of those countries.
Also, my parents really don't have any traditions or anything like that.
The only things that separate my family from "typical" American family:
1) Sometimes (rarely) a parent messes up his or her grammar.
2) Some of our furniture is vaguely Asian in appearance.
3) Sometimes, I hear someone talking on the phone in his or her native language.
4) Neither of my grandmothers can speak English well at all.

>>137
I have known about you superficially because you sometimes come here and there is a biography about you
at the beggining of this thread!
But I didn't know you are an Asian-American and such a young man until reading the post(>>137).
Thank you to let me know.

Then, why your parents emigrate to the U.S. ?
To realize an American Dream ?

>>138
I don't know; I never asked.

It sounds unlikely, but it's true.
I never asked, and they never told me.

>>139
I understand.
Thank you.

>>137
I see. 18.4% is a lot actually, it's more than one out of six people.
Mmm, it's maybe because some people tend to avoid heated debates
on uncomfortable topics like racism when they know they're more likely
to be a target of blame for what they're not personally responsible for.
Anyway, if you don't mind, what is your major?

>>141
I really haven't decided yet.
It's sort of embarrassing.
There's nothing that interests me.

The only thing that's ever come close to an "aspiration"
is a strange, half-formed desire to become a police officer.
I don't even know why.

Meanwhile, I've told everyone I'm aiming for something to do with computers,
because that's what everyone expected me to do.

I guess U.S.A is late night now, so
you have to go to bed as soon as possible, don't you ?? >>ベイエリア人

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>>142
Okay, please be extra-nice to Asian criminals when you become an officer.

>>144
hey kuma!
∧__∧
(4 ^ヮ^)つ

I think im getting mysterious users coming out of now were!

>>142
Let us know when you are in "Cops."
I'm looking forward to that.

Take it easy.
You should think what you can do.

LAST DAY EVERYONE!
last day through hell.

Wish me luck guys!

DANG IT
Everytime i sleep the tread explodes
and when i awake the thread IS empty. ._.

Sparky, what kinds of crops are planted in Louisiana ? Yes, I rememer having asked this question, but forget it. I'm aiming to grasp the geography of America by actually asking to residents.

What's movie do you love the best?
I watched "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" on Air Wave program just now. Steven Seagal is stronger than Schwarzenegger.

>>147
Actually I'm the conceptor of the title "Yotsuba☆channel is newborn board, do you find what you'd feel lucky."
I am wondering if you'd find something lucky, probably you don't yet.

>>62
It's just that Rocky is from Philadeliphia and it's in Pennsylvania,
where you live in.

Haven't seen any of Rocky series? Shame on you. I've seen from Rocky to
Rocky IV. As for V an VI, Stalone looks waning in phisical thing so
they didn't draw my attention much. It's sad but for actors whose
selling point is physical beauty and strength, coping with getting old is
really tough to handle.

>>155 yes i did find some things

1 more test and im out of hell

>>153
ill look it up after hell ok? ^^

>>158
Ok^^
But, I want you to see what is mainly cultivated around your house and over the Luisiana,
and let me know the impression, if possible.
Even information from your acquaintances is also ok.

But, ummm, it's likely that people don't have any interest in crops
just as I didn't before.(I have only slight interests now though)
So, if you couldn't gather any information, please say so to me..lol
There is no problems.

My dad also grew up in poverty. My grandfather was factory worker for
Ford and had 5 kids. Out of all of those 5 kids, my dad was the only one
to rise out of poverty. There wasn't any trick to it. He just worked his
ass off and got good grades. I've heard all kinds of stories about how he
was in a gang and such and had to fight other kids on a daily basis to
protect his brothers (since he was the oldest)... but I won't go too much into that.

When he went to college he majored in political science. When he graduated with a masters,
he found that major was totally useless if one wants money. So later, he studied real estate
on his own and became a commercial real estate agent. To this day, he is extremely bitter over
all those years and all the money he spent on going to that university. He now considers college
to be some kind con game. His explanation of why is really convincing, but it would take a long
time to write it out... He is an excellent arguer as a result being a real estate agent requires one to
have good negotiation skills.

Back to the story, he worked his ass off as a real estate agent and got really successful. By the
time I was 10 or so, we finally moved out of the tiny house we lived in and moved to an affluent town
in a good-sized house. At his peak, he was making over $1,000,000 a year. From my understanding though,
luck plays a large role in the real estate market and he eventually had to drop that job due to the weakening economy and now he is
running two businesses he made himself. The first making something like $500,000 a year and the other
$40,000 a month (he just started the second one this year).

I'm not trying to brag about how wealthy my family is, I'm merely explaining how one man rose up from rags
to riches in the U.S. and I know him personally.

>>159
i k now that soy beans, cotten, and sometimes corn gets grown here ?^^

>>160
I'm curious why Americans often talk about money. If someone who grew up in Japan wrote the same story,
he'd write more about how hard he worked and less about how much he earned.
Probably this is one of cultural differences between Japan and the US.

>>162
interesting
and that is one of the over 9000 culture differences between Japan and USA

>>160
That's why your sister can go to medical school, which I believe
cost a fortune.

You said your uncle's business went bankrupcy but even before that
his business's not so good? Because you said only your father got out
of poverty.

Are you planning on taking over your dad's business?

>>162
I don't like to talk about money.
guess what guys?
IM FREE FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL AND IM MOVING TO A BETTER HIGH SCHOOL for me
i worked extreamly hard
it was a hard and easy midterm

now i com join my friends in my new high school ^^

I only mentioned money because it measures the success. It would take
paragraphs to explain how hard he worked. I'll just say this. He would
leave for work at something like 8 in the morning and come home around 8
or 10. That is unusual for the average American. As a real estate agent,
he worked for himself. He did not have a boss. Today, he spends almost
every waking moment working. He is a work-a-holic as they say and
I picked up that trait from him.

>>164

My brother is going to take over the businesses in the future and me
and my sister will receive something like 1/3 of the profits each.
The reason for this is that my brother has committed a few felonies in
the past and has cost my family fortunes (literally hundreds of thousands
of dollars) in order to keep him out of jail. That is his future punishment.
I have different plans.

>>166

Sorry, I meant to say, "my sister and I will receive 1/3 each . . ."

>>166
>I only mentioned money because it measures the success.

This is what I meant. If you were Japanese, you'd mention money to measure how hard he worked, not how much he succeeded.
If a typical Japanese had the same experience, he'd write how much money he earned to prove how industrious his dad is, not the other way around.
In fact, it doesn't really matter if your dad made money or not to Japanese audience.
We'd equally appreciate and respect him if he failed miserably to earn money as long as he is as diligent and worked as hard.
If I were you, I'd mention money to show how assiduous my dad is, not how much he succeeded.

>>166
>and I picked up that trait from him

Are you joking? I never get any impressions that you study reall hard and
all that. The working huor of your father is nothing to shout about
in Japan's standard. Some Japanese work past midnight and just go home
for some sleep and then in the morning go to work. This working hours
doesn't last forever but, when workingon imprtant project and all that,
this happens and some can't handle this hard working hours and
get mentally depressed. In extreme cases, they commit suiside
to get away from the harsh working condition. Some wife file a
suit against the company for the compnay's reposibility of
his husband's suicide.

You know what, Toyota is passed the sales of GM and now number 1
automobile manufacturer in the world and a blue chip company.
But there's a dark side that's not very known. Quite a large number of
employees of Toyota suffer from depression, which shows they workd under lots of
pressures and long working hours behind illustrous Toyota's performance,

They say that Americans don't do too much overtime but I heard that big company's
employess work as much as Japanese doing overtime.

>>169
>Are you joking? I never get any impressions that you study reall hard and
all that.

If you could know how hard a poster studies, you're a uber talented psychic or something.
Maybe he's diligent. Who knows?

>>160
> I've heard all kinds of stories about how he was in a gang

When I hear the "gang" what comes to mind is black people.
Is there a gang whose members are all white?

What do you drive? Porche or something. You sound like you're from
a rich family.

Your bro must have commited a robbery with a gun.

>>169

Because I don't come to this board to brag about how much I study...
Ah, I was hoping some people would not get the impression that I was
just telling that story for the purpose of showing off.

Yea, I've heard that many Japanese business work so hard that it becomes
dangerous. It really is a shame that they have to work themselves to death.

>>170
To me, he is just a guy who is obsessed with the idea of sleeping with
Japanese girls.

>>173
But getting laid is serious business. Don't you think?

>>171

"Gang" has a broad definition. He made a guy eat dirt once. He also broke some guy's
arm on another occasion in a fight because this guy was fucking with his youngest brother.
I know that much.

No, I was raised to not be spoiled. I got a very limited amount of money when growing up.
I drive a 15 year old van. I could probably sell it for $50. Even Mexican immigrants drive
a better car than me. I don't mind though. It is better than not having a car.

>>173

That would be nice lol.

>>175
Your father is kind of DQN and you have a blood of DQN in you, too.

How can you call a student who bullshits his essays hardworking and
deligent student in the first place?

I think he just said that for the sake of defense but didn't really mean it.

I for one bet he didn't research enough facts and figures before writing the
essay, which is he bullshitted.

>>180

All facts and figures that were not a result of my own personal research
were required to be cited. I don't know why you are fucking with me, but
I'm not going to respond to anymore of it after this post.

>>178
I'm always bullshitting and trolling on English anonymous boards, but everyone in real life says I'm a hardworking and diligent student.

Essays are to be written within your frame of mind.
You may well give facts and figures a kick in the pants.

I am drunk.

>>181
I guess it's because you wrote something about money when he just lost money on the yen-dollar exchange or possibly he has Toyota's stocks.

>>181
All facts and figures in the essay were fabricated because you didn't
bother.

>>186
You're intoxicated, right?

my shitty life ended
and my "real life" started ^^

But what happens if the person who lives a life is shitty?

don't feed the troll

robotinyonago

So, for those of you who don't get much snow, I thought I would share my pictures with you.
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/charpersondude/Snow%20Storm%20of%2012%2019%202008/
This is New York's first snow STORM (we've had some snow in October, too) of the season. It's not actually winter yet, but we have received at LEAST 8 inches during 5 hours, and it's still snowing even now.
Not many people get to see this amount of snow, so I thought it'd be interesting to take pictures. I took pictures while driving, and let me tell you: It could have been very dangerous if I weren't an attentive driver, and good in the snow.
And yes, one of those pictures is of me. I am very short.

>>192
Wow! Thanks for sharing the photos. Just looking at them makes me Brrrrrr.......
Do you drive the car with special tires for snow? Studless tire?
I can't live in an area with so much snow.

And look at you! you look cozy in the cardboard box under the Christmas
tree. Your pet standing in the snow looks very young.

Since New York is located on the same latitude as Aomori prefecture, the northern part of Honshu,
It must have a lot of snow. But I guess it is a bit warmer due to Gulf stream.

Oh! You're telling a typical joke of Japanese style. lol

>>193
I drove with standard tires on a car with anti-lock brakes, which was a step up from last year - no ABS, and some sort of 'sports' tires (Civic SI, tires were very expensive and ABS wasn't an option on the '99 model!)
Also...
>And look at you! you look cozy in the cardboard box under the Christmas
tree. Your pet standing in the snow looks very young.
I'm the person, not the cat! Lol.

>>195
Oh, you are the person. Sorry for my miunderstanding.
I can't tell if you are tall or short from the photo but you have a
small face. In Japan, if you say you have a small, that's compliment.
Well proportioned, that is. You are blond so that's bonus.
I mean, you have looks to get popular in Japan. I'm not saying not
blond and not well proportionate man don't get popular, thouhg.

It's too dangerous to drive a car with standard tires in such a ground
condition. Anti-lock is something that works after your car slides,
the important thing is, your car don't slide with proper tires.

>>196
Yes I am small, 5 foot 4 inches, most men are at least 5 foot 9 inches, in America (I think)
Also, I don't have blonde hair, its brown, the flash just makes it look lighter! Either way I'm sure I'd as popular as anyone else, if I have the personality! That's what counts.

And yes, it is verrrry dangerous to drive in such conditions with s regular car... luckily I am good at driving in such weather, and find the danger exciting!

back

and can i start a topic?

My server broke his (YES IT IS A MALE PC) uptime record
of 1 day

he been up for 2 days
Windows me is showing signs of crashing (CPU USAGE HIGH FOR NO REASON)

>>189
suicide

>>198
INSTALL GENTOO!
No really, install debian(easy) or slackware(UNPOSSIBLE). Enjoy the speed of a good linux distribution. I use both.

captain spicard is in heaven ^.^

it NEVER "snows" in NORTH LOUISIANA
and it is snowing in the desert and
FREAKING NEW OREANS!

>>201
I know I'm in heaven! I don't just like Syracuse because I was born there, I like it for all the snow!
You know when you get this much snow, sound bounces off of snow... so when you go outside and everything is silent you feel kind of surrounded by uh... silence.
It's a strange thing to describe, but it's nice.

>>200

ohh ok
Debian is what the distribution i was looking for.

Or perhaps its the opposite.. perhaps snow absorbs sound? I don't know.

>>192
Alright now I'm jealous. Here in Sweden we got completely no snow at all,
just bare ground as far as the eye can see.

>>205
Just wait until winter actually starts, New York is non-stop snow. Maybe not 8 inches every day, but an inch a day isn't absurd for New York. NYC on the other hand is different, less snow.
Anyway.. come visit! Come for the snow, stay for the fact that the snow won't let you out.
>>203
Yeah, I suggest debian over ubuntu because there isn't a point to ubuntu, and it just adds useless stuff.

>>205

Sweden?

I thought acess from Sweden is denied. Who are you? k-tan or スウェーデン人？

>>207
None of them actually, I came here from /g/ on 4chan when we tried to get Sparky back.

>>208
Dohoho, it's like a party in here. With all these people from /g/, where's the rage and butthurt? Don't even mention the lolis, I know where they are.

>>208
You are one of the members of the Sparky rescue team. lol
It's said that person with .se IP address can't access to 2chan.
Doesn't your IP idress have .se ?

>>209
I'm pretty calm so I don't rage that often, about the lolis, I got a whole collection of them ready for use.

>>208
Where do you get sparky back ?

>>210
I don't think so. At least it doesn't look like it.

>>213
OK. Then maybe the regulation was eliminated.

sparky4 cannot come back until 2014 or 2016

>>212
Around two weeks ago a bunch of people from 4chans /g/-board tried to get 【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】 ミ田 back to /g/, because a person
from this board came to /g/ complaining about him spamming threads and being generally annoying. Those people from the /g/-board was
me myself, Captain Spicard, and some other guys I don't remember. It ended with the solution that【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】 ミ田 was allowed to stay here
as long as he kept his post count down a bit.

>>211
Me too, just check the front page of /g/ for a 3d one.
>>216
WE STILL MISS SPARKY. HE MUST COME BACK, but first we need to condition him.
I will be a hero.

These days i often hear American saying "smell like soup".
Does anyone know this expression?

>>217
Yes I miss him too and that's why I visit this board.

>>216
Umm, I understand.
It may be a good and generous decision.

Sparky haven't been to /g/-board since he was expelled afrom the board ?

>>218
Never ever heard anyone say that.

Please use a handle name, Sweden人, because it's a bit hard to identify you.

Your reactions remind me of the character from Flowers for Algernon.

>>220
Yep, he got himself a ban which will last for quite a while, or was it one that won't expire, I don't remember.

>>222
Here is my handle name, Nrvnqsr.

ok you /g/uys
are cool enough for にちゃんねる
and
四葉☆ちゃんねる

>>223
Am I becoming dumber as time goes by?

Hi everybody!
We have lots of snow here too, outside of Boston. It is so pretty!
This afternoon I took a nap around 2 pm, and I ended up falling asleep until
7 pm. I'm tired these days.

>>218
smell like soup?? haven't heard that one...
checked it out on Google, apparently it's a line from a popular movie "Juno"

Looks like /g/'s loss is our gain. Of course, I am referring to
火花(4 ^ヮ^)ちゃん。

>>224
Now, some people speak ill of Sparky and attack him.
And others protect him from the attacks and raise him as if being his father.
It's not so bad emvironment for Sparky, I think.

Well, how did you know that Sparky is here?

I have to go wrap yet more Christmas presents now.
We're getting ready to go see my family tomorrow.
I'm going to put on a DVD while I'm doing that...涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱
One of my favorite shows, except the R1 DVD has the episodes in chronological
order, not the original broadcast order. It takes away from the charm, I think.
Hasta la vista!

I'm very annoyed by the guitar noise from my father.
I can't bear it, but pc is on the same room.
Please give me a solution to get over this contradiction.--

>>229
A person from this board came to /g/ and started a tread where he wanted us to get Sparky back to /g/.
So I went here through the links he provided, the links were pointed to the threads where Sparky resided.

>>224
forever
http://4chan.b33r.net/my%20pictures/+meeeeand%20good%20riddens.png
screw fagland

my image board is the real "4chan"
it is
四葉☆ちゃんねる!
and no
we are not going to use copyrighted characters for a mascot of our image board
(still looking for one)

>>231
GET YOUR OWN PC!

>>231
If you're using a headset you could turn up the volume and start playing some music, otherwise I don't know.
Also use "in" when you talk about someone or something which is in the same room as you.

The real appearance of Captain Spicard was completely different from what I gad
thought him to be.
I had thought that Captain has a bearded face and is a bit tabby.
He grow actually, however, no beards and he is a smart guy.
I was surprised.
Are you really small ? What is your height ? Please describe your stature by cm, not feet.

>>228

>Looks like English speaking internet's loss is our gain. Of course, I am referring to
火花(4 ^ヮ^)ちゃん。

fix'd ^^

>>236
I know, I love the fact that I can deceive people like that. I'd be about 163 cm and 49kg, and though I'm 18 years, I look closer to 15 or 14. It can come in handy.
Best thing is that teachers and regular people think that I'm incapable of lying or being mean to them, so I get away with things.

Well good night everybody, it's 4 o'clock in the morning here and I seriously need some sleep.

>>234-235
Thanks for your advices.
Yea, I'm going to buy my own pc within a year, I'm loking forward to it.

>Also use "in" when you talk about someone or something which is in the same room as you.
Thanks. This is a very informative lecture.
To me, It is pleasant to have my English sentenses fixed to correct ones.

>>238
Wow, you are 18 years old ?
It's also amazing. I was convinced that you were over twenties!
>Best thing is that teachers and regular people think that I'm incapable of lying
That's a great benefit, isn't it ?
Because you are skilled liar lol (joke)

>>240
my pc is a y2k pc
that has been upgraded to 2.4 GHZ

also

8 Name: �【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】 ミ田!AZWpeumso.!!EV4sIB72 : 2008-12-03 21:06 ID:5ejo/oD4 [Del]
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
♪　　　　☆
　　　　　♪　 ／ ＼　　　RANTA RANTA
　　　　　　ヽ(4 ^ヮ^)ﾉ　　RANTA TAN
　　 　 　　　 (へ　 ) 　　　RANTA TANTA
　 　 　 　 　　　　 >　　　　TAN
9 Name: [Hibana(4 ^o^)] 미전 AZNkusomiso. EVAsiberia : 2008-12-11 21:32 ID:Heaven [Del]
|∀´> Watching you... nida...


this guy decoded my name!

>>241
Thanks, it's nice to be told I'm older than I actually am. When you are 18, it isn't so impressive.

>>243
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU IS 18 YEARS OLD o_o

BUT
YOU ACT LIKE 30

>>243
Judginging from your photo, you look young, of course.

>>244
It's called being wise. I may not know everything, but I know when to shut my mouth, and in what places I can act in certain ways.

>>242
Can such a mysterious thing occure ?
・・Maybe, your code is 444444・・?><

>>247
i do not know!

scilent

That's not how it's spelled.

>>228
Hello, my house wife!

>>251 wwwwwwwwwwwww

>>250
im not serious about spelling on internets

dam it i hate empty boards!

>>228
Not only "Juno" but also "Blades Of Glory"

>>254
The Japanese should be at work, and the Americans should be sleeping. Something like that.

In retrospect, I made a lot of gramatical mistakes, as well as spelling mistakes.
I think I make at least a few mistakes per a post.
Considering the number of mistakes I have made, I feel chilled.

・・Thank you to forgive my poor English!
If you feel disgusted, feel free to say so, and correct it if you don't mind!

>>256
Today in Japan, it's Saturday afternoon. So, poeple don't have to go to their offices.
I guess it's Friday in America.

>>256
BOB SAGGET

>>257
you are ok ^^;
you don't disgust me!
im serious here!

>>257
You should stop saying "forgive my poor English"
or your English wouldn't make any progress.

WHAT IS THIS?????????????
http://suzukikei.net/aaa.jpg
A SPACE SHIP?

Nobody's perfect.you know?

>>257
It's not a problem, as I can't even write Japanese yet. Languages are hard to learn.

>>263
wwww 何？

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1805485
ミクトランスいいね！
^^

>>259
Thanks!
You seem to be tolerant in nature.
>>260
Ok. I follow your advice.

Well, I got a permittion that allows me to write freely whatever I want to
without worrying about gramatical errors, so I think I continue to write as
I have done so far.

I think my English is not so bad, compared to one written by a person in Japan
who is equivalent to my age. But, my score is not good when it comes to English compotition
tests. I don't feel good.

>>265
nice English! ^^

>>266
thanks^^

>>265
For one, contractions always help. Although contractions aren't important for proper English, they make it appear as if you are comfortable with English.

>>265
>I think my English is not so bad, compared to one written by a person in Japan
who is equivalent to my age, but my score is not good when it comes to English compotition
tests.

fix'd ^^

>>269
Except competition is still spelled wrong.

>>268
Nice information.
BTW, I couldn't understand your sentense because I didn't know the meaning of contradiction.
So, I looked it up in a dictionally and knew it!

Oops, not contradiction, but contraction.
It's spelled wroong.

>>265
Well, I got a permittion
[ that allows me [ to write freely [ whatever I want to ] without [ worrying about gramatical errors ],
so I think [ I continue [ to write [ as I have done so far ].
I think
[ my English is not so bad, [ compared to one
[written by a person in Japan [ who is equivalent to my age ] ] ].
But, my score is not good [ when it comes to English compotition tests ].
I don't feel good.
******************************
How can it be!!??
Your English teacher is no doubt crazy or inpotent or too jealous of you!
Even grown-ups can't use English as freely [ as you do now here ]!

>>273
Thanks.
Speaking of my post 265, I might write it well.
However, I have to admit I'm not so skilled. Other Japanese people here
are better definitely.

Annonimous system is the best, because if someone makes a terrible mistake,
he can't be identified.
What a nice system♪

>>275
ok!
that makes sense ^^

I want to buy a Dutch wife.
Please teach me cheap and safety Dutch wife.
And teach me best of safety lotion too.
But my family is raining now.

>>277

??????????

I wonder why that kinds of dolls are called as 'Dutch wife'.

Women in Netherland are such a beautiful as people want to have sex with them ?

Dutch means adult

Oh...I wanna be a seashell..

Windows me crashed ^^;
uptime record 2½ days
or is it 3 days?

What time is it in the U.S. ?

>>277
Call the company named Orient Corp and you can get a good one.
But it's extremely expensive, though.

http://4chan.b33r.net
go here ans a clock will show you the time in North Louisiana

>>285
OK

>>286
<p>compy4 server time and date:<iframe src="http://free.timeanddate.com/clock/i19f4nvn/n178/fn12/fs13/fc0f0/tc000/pc000/avb/tt0/tm3/td2/th1/tb3" frameborder="0" width="250" height="18"></iframe>
</p>

>>284
Sure.
I have the patience to Onany hole.
Because realManko is very smell bad.
Onany hole is the best of manko.
Manko is wonderful.

>>285
Wow, almost midnight.

>>289
23:09
yes

A SMALL PROBLEM HAPPENED TO MY PC.
IF I TYPE SOMETHING, IT IS EXPRESSED AS A CAPITAL LETTER UNLIKE USUALLY.
HOW CAN I FIX THIS STRANGE PROBLEM, EXCEPT FOR DOING SHUT DOWN ?

What is Your OS?

アゲ
サゲ

empty board is empty

>>291
Hit your caps lock and stop yelling.

>>293
This is not 4chan. I know how slow this board looks when you're used to the hyper active boards, but 2ch is just a text board. Learn moonspeak and try 2chan if you want more replies.

>>293
Did you mean: futaba channeru?

i can't!
they block ALL non Japanese IP
>>294
yelling?
that ?
no thats not YELLKING

THIS IS YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111
THIS IS JUST CAPS LOCK.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

>>277
>>288
Hmmm, is it weird that I think lolicon is totally normally but using these sorts of odd devices is kind of sick?

Right hand and lotion is all you need, folks!

>>296
my only fetish is school uniforms...........
Witch is perfectly normal
>>277
>>288

????

>>296
Left hand is a special treat.

>>295
Proxy is your friend. If you browse /a/, you see occasional /a/nons' raid on futaba.
They're all using proxy when posting shit on futaba.

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=japanese+proxy&btnG=Google+Search

I just learned something about my Japanese internets name
火花 = spark in CHINESE DUN DUN DUN
O_o
the super-complex language
can be learned with Japanese

>>299
/a/nons ATTACKING THE FUTABA CHANNERU?

THOSE BASTARDS!

>>296
It would be better to use left hand sometimes, with which you can
have a different feeling.

>>300
No worries. Futaba users are immune to trolling. How many idiots they get, they don't care.

>>302

proxy i need a direct link to a proxy!

Noun

火花 (hiragana ひばな, romaji hibana)

1. spark


A short or small burst of electrical discharge.

that me alright

>>303
Some proxies are web based so you enter URL on a site and you're behind the proxy.
But most of them are just servers that functions as proxy servers.
Only web based one I know seems down right now.
Find a list and connect to a server through its specific port on the list.
I haven't been on Windows for so long and forgot how it works on the OS,
but your browser should be able to handle usual proxy connections.
If you're on firefox, there should be a tab/section related to network and proxy in Preference.
Check Manual Proxy Configuration (or something similar) and type the IP of a proxy server you find in HTTP Proxy and enter the appropriate port number.

>>734
I'm just back from the newest Kinea Reave movie, and it was so good and true.
I haven't got the name of that movie.
What is it?

someone ban sparky

>>734
Both your English and [ what you say ] exceed [ what average grown-ups say ]!

>>307
Install the あぼーんフィルタ plug-in, set ミ or something as filter keys on Preference, and you'll be Sparky free.

>>292>>294
BACK.
i DON'T KNOW WHAT OS MEANS, SORRY.

UMMM, I PUSHED 'CAPS LOCK' HUNDREDS TIMES, BUT THE SITUATION DOESN'T CHANGE.
I HAVE NO CHICE BUT TO LAUGH NOW!

>>310
Reboot your PC or reset your life. Either way, it won't take longer than a minute.

306 名前：片岡数吉 ◆jqd0sC45I6 ：2008/12/20(土) 18:50:14
>>734
I'm just back from the newest Kinea Reave movie, and it was so good and true.
I haven't got the name of that movie.
What is it?

>>311
YEA, IF I SHOULD HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE OF THEM, I WOULD CHOOSE THE FORMER DEFINITELY.
SURELY I WANT TO FIX THIS TYPING SYSTEM, BUT RATHER I WANT TO KNOW THE REASON WHY
MY PC WAS CHANGED TO THIS ONE SUDDENLY.

>>312
I forgot the name.

what's with all the CAPS here?

>>312
If you replaced Keanu Reeves with a cardboard cut-out of Keanu Reeves,
nobody would be able to tell the difference.

>>316
Yeah thats true.

Cardboard is fucking hardcore.

I often hear that overall tha British people, old or young, rich or poor and man or woman,
don't cherish a good impression on Americans.
This is a just distorted idea or true?

Why is English called ﾞ英語" in Japan?
If French is called ﾞフランス語", English should be called a ﾞイギリス語".

>>319
Are you not Japanese?

The Japanese equivalents of Britons and the UK are 英吉利人 and 英国, respectively.
That's why we usually say 英語. フランス語 is also called 仏語 because フランス is spelled 仏蘭西 in kanji.

If you want to refer to American variants of the English language, you can say 米語 presumably because the US is 米国 in Japanese.

>>316
I'm just back from the newest Kianu Reeves movie, and it was so good and true.
I haven't got the name of that movie.
What is it?

733 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 ：2008/12/20(土) 20:46:28
数吉先生は、具体的に東京に来て、何をされるんですか？
個人塾でも始めるんですか？
****** I'll teach at a few metropolitan senior high schools.
And I'll open 10 formula grammar English off-school classes near Jo-chi Christian University.

734 名前：金玉儿 ：2008/12/20(土) 20:55:01
>>733
す〜きち君は、東京に行ってまずＮＨＫ教育にレギュラー出演をして、
東大の非常勤講師をして、オリンピック開会式の挨拶をして、
ハーバード大学の理事長になって、
最後には合衆国大統領になるつもりらしいよｗ
******* He will teach with NHK educational.
He will also teach at Tokyo University. He seems [ to make the Olympics [ opening ] address ].
Then, he will be teaching at Harvard University.
People seem [ to be expecting [ him to be the president of the USA ]
[ because he may have done huge amount for the love and peace of the entire earth as a good servant of Jesus the Savior ].

>>316
I don't get イギリス人's joke if that is a joke.
Tell me what he meant. Does he mean that Keane had no acting skills
so cardboard box cut-out of him is eufficien to replace him???
I have no idea.

>>313
You sohuld try pressing "shift" key and "CapsLock" key at the same time.
Then you can type as usual. If you press "shift" key and "CapsLock" key at the same time
again, then you cantype with all capital letter"shift" key and "CapsLock" key at the same times.
Then you "shift" key and "CapsLock" key at the same time again, you can
type as usual.

Maybe you somehow pressed "shift" key and "CapsLock" key at the same time
so you ended up typing with all capital letters. It's neither your PC
troubles nor OS troubles. It's just the way English typing/input system
works.

>>313
>>324 was a mess. Let me explain again.
You accidentaly pressed both "shift" key and "CapsLock" at the same time
so you can't type with lower case. If you you press "shift" key and "CapsLock"
at the same time again, then you can get back to normal typing, which
means you can type with lower case again.

You got it?

>>324
I cannot appreciate you more!
Yes, after pressing shit key and CapsLock at the same time as you said,
letters started to be displayed as usual on the display.
I was astonished to know there is such a system.
Why do you know that ? This is a common knoledge ?

>>326
Good to hear you solved the problem.

>This is a common knoledge ?
Well, I don't know but most PC users have experienced this problem.
I was in a panic when I experienced this when I started using PC.

I don't know what this function is for, but it's convenient if you have to
type letters with all capital letters. I don't know you have such an
occasion in which you have to type with all capital letters, though.

help me find a proxy in Japan guys!

>>328
and a good one!

>>329
If you can't find one yourself, this is the easiest one to use:

http://www.ijapan.org/red/

Enter the URL you want to browse and you'll be faking jp ip.
This is one of proxies often /a/nons use to raid on futaba.

By the way, what is the speaker saying in this mp3?

http://www.uploda.org/uporg1870551.mp3

A Japanese guy on another thread says it's "You can hear him screeching all over the base" and
another guy says she's saying "You can hear hands screeching all over the base."

>>330
>A Japanese guy on another thread says it's "You can hear him screeching all over the base"

That's me. lol What do you think?

>>331
Hmm... It sounds "hands" to me, but "him" fits the context better according to the poster.

It does't load, I keep getting an error on Media Player.

>>333
If you're talking about >>330, it's working on my laptop.
Besides, I just copy and pasted the link and at least >>331 was able to hear it.
Maybe it's your PC's problem?

>>334
Are you the Japanese Mac user who is a regular on 4ch?
If so, you are excellent in writing and reading Englihs but not so good
at listening to English. "Hands" is impossible. No "s" sound there.

I'm sure I'm right but let's wait for native speakers answeres.

I mean, 4chan, not 4ch.

What is the difference of the meaning between 4chan and 4ch ?

I got it. I didn't know I had to download the file first.
To me, it's a very short "him".

>>337
4chan is that faggy image board


this is 4ch the awesome BBS
in technical matters
it's 4channel

http://4-ch.net

http://4-ch.net/ascii/
i LOVE this place
And this is the final place i 100% approved on the english speaking internets
besides my website

>>335
I'm using Mac and browsing /b/ right now... How did you know that? Creepy...

As for my English, I'm sure my writing sucks harder than speaking and listening skills.
Reading is ok, I guess, because words don't go away!
But people tend to use simpler words and sentence structures when speaking,
so, to be honest, reading is a little harder than listening.

I guess you're mistaking me for someone else. It seems most of fluent guys in this thread browse 4chan and there's a ton of proficient posters.
Mac is not very popular though ;_;

>>339
Hi, Sparky. I think you can help us. What is the mp3 saying?

>>340
sure why not ^^

>>339 Oh thanks! I peaked 4ch only a short time just now, but I found it's not so popular. this BBC has a decent number of users??

mp3 said
"You can hear him screeching all over the base."

also
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

I knew you were gonna say that one...

>>344
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
i love that meme

>>343
Thanks, Sparky.

I took a look at 4ch, but isn't it a bit sparse? Which board on 4ch is most popular? I want faster boards.

>>344
How did you know that?

>>340
I thought you're the guy who put the link of this thread on
4chan's /g/ board.

Maybe you're not the one who did that.

>>346
it is a slow slow board

>>348
who ever it is im still mad at them

Which countries are users mainly from ?

>>351
which users?

>>348
I'm curious how you can tell the guy posted a link on /g/ is a mac user.
I've seen a link to this thread on 4chan at least twice.
They're not on /g/ though.

And, fuck. My ears still recognize it as hands. Guess this is what we call 空耳.

>>347
Actually that was the first thing that came to my mind too,.

>>350 What kinds of words did they say to you ? “get out！” maybe like a bit old man appeared on the video about Tsukiji fish market said to the French guy ？

>>350
Is the proxy working? I think you can post on futaba with it.

nope >>356

>>352 people in 4ch

>>357
I tried to post on futaba with the proxy and I got this error:
あなたのipアドレスからは投稿できません(err8)

Fuck /a/nons. Futaba is now blocking the proxy. You should find another one.

Almost all peole don't pronounce “huniki” but “huinki” when they refer to “雰囲気” though any textbook doesn't say. The same thing happen in English?

>>358
I don't know about 4ch, but you can find some stat about 4chan here:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/4chan.org

According to this, about half the visitors are from the US.
Visitors from the Japanese IP range account for 3.2%.

>>359
>fuck fagland.
fix'd ^^

i can't find moar
>>358

>>361 What a small portion the Japanese dominate! Nobody doubt 2ch belnngs to Japan. But how about 4ch？

>>362 moar ？

moar is a phonetic way (or retarded way if you will) to say more.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4286991
what is this
there is a sign at the left that keeps saying 4

oh I didn't know that

Could a luxury car be flying high? Dream on.

>>318
It's partially true, but doesn't really depend on class or age, just the
opinions of the individual. A lot of people just don't agree with policies,
look down on general lifestyle and media, or still hold the past against them.

>>321
I think that's "The Day the Earth Stood Still", a remake of the original
movie from 1951.

>>324
That's exactly what I meant. Wasn't really a joke though... maybe a half-joke...

I just read through like 100 posts I missed yesterday.
Now I kind of understand why Crystal suggested using trips or names.
She's not been here for a while though.

>>368 On the Mars, where people of the next generation are supposed to emigrate, it's possible.

>>366
You trolled.
I tried to answer your question and watched the vid all the way through
but no such a sign.

372
umm
it is on the side rail
it moves quickly
and the sign is green

>>370
You mean you were confused not being able to distinguish who is who?

372
ill take a screen shot

>>373
Tell the time when the sign shows up if you really want an answer.
You are the one who's asking a question so don't make us bother
searching for the sign.

>>375
Whatever

>>374
No. I've seen many posters say something like "Are you the one who did it?"
If you wanted to identify posters, I don't know why they refuse to use trips.
It seems this thread is a little bit different than other threads on 2ch.

>>378
Ah Now I understand what you mean. As for me, I want to know who's who
but I myself want to hide under anonymity. contradiction.

>>379
It's not a contradiction. We call it self-orientedness and selfishness lol.

No contradiction. Just a self-concentrated thing. I have the sawe idea as you..

>>366
Your dynamic visual acuity is just amazing, the video plays at triple speed so
virtually, it's as if you were seeing the scenery from a car running at about 240-300 kmh,
which is approximately 150-190 mph. And there is actually a sign that says 4
that I have no idea about.

>>369
I see. I'm glad I understood correctly what you meant because that means
I understand a way of thinking of native English speakers.

I mean, I don't think we Japanese associate actors with bad acting skills with
a cut-out cardbox figure.

There seems to be a person whose view is correspond to mine. Make yourself show up from annonymouses!

>>380-381
You two are identical twins.

>>376
At 2:25, at least there's one you can see.

>>385
It's just another mive hind.

Hmm... I'm watching the Suze Orman show on CNBC, and she just said $1734 as seventeen thirty-four dollars.
If I remember correctly, jook said 1234 is one thousand two hundred thirty-four.
Is it ok to say like her or is this because it's an amount of money?

By the way, I'm >>330 so my ears may not be reliable, but I think it's rather difficult to mishear something like this...

>>386
Thanks. I watched the video again. Actually, I saw lots of signs that
says 4. I googled and found out that this is the number of expressway/highway.
He's driving on 阪神高速4号湾岸線. Hanshin expressway/highway No.4.
This is the name of the expressway/highway that runs along the coastline.

http://slr.main.jp/slr/kannsai/rinnkuujct/rinnkuu_3.htm

Bonjour!
That's about all I remember of my French. How is everyone?

>>390
It's 4 a.m. here. I'm sleepy.

As for French, Je t'aime is the only active vocabulary.

Yeah... it's somewhat difficult for this thread to be active, as we are on when you sleep, and we sleep when you are on.

>>392
True. But at least I'm here.

By the way, you have the New York accent, right? I'm looking for vids like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyL9wBWvIk

His other vids about accents are also great too. Do you know something like that or can you make one?

>>390
Hola!

That's one of the words I know in Spanish.

Is it common to write Christmas cards? Or in this day and age,
Email christmas greeting is more popular? I asked this question before
but nobody answered me.

>>393
Well I'm not from NYC, so it's a bit different. Another thing is that New York State accent is basically identical to Florida, California, Pennsylvania and some others, I think.
There are just some accents that span multiple states, and unfortunately I can't make a video for you, as I don't have a digital camera.

>>394
I suppose there are some that use emails now, but that's kind of like saying you are too lazy to send out cards.
Sometimes you may write personal letters to people you like, but other times you may just send out Christmas cards that are general, to your whole family or friends.
So yes, we still send Christmas cards, not too many people use email for it, as it's not as thoughtful.

>>395
Thanks. We don't have the tradition of sending Christmas card,
which is of course except that you have friends overseas, but
we send New Year's greeting post cards.

I heard some young people replace writing post cards with sending email.

>>369
They might, but I don't think it's a nice thing to do. It ruins tradition.
I'm not even religious, but Christmas cards are still a nice thing to send.

>>395
When I went to Florida, I thought people there pronounce words a little differently,
but I'm >>330 and so my ears may be kind of fucked up. The mp3 still sounds to me like "You can hear hands screeching..."

And I didn't think you had the time to make a vid; it'd be take a lot of time. I just asked, haha. Thanks anyway.

So, as I wrote in >>388, Suze Orman said "seventeen hundred thirty-four dollars" on her show. Is this normal?
jook said 1234 is usually pronounced one thousand two hundred thirty-four, and a briton in this thread agreed.

>>398
Well, I mean florida accent is similar to new york STATE accent, new york CITY is different.
As for the numbers... both are correct. 1234 could be one thousand two hundred thirty-four OR twelve hundred thirty-four.
There is no difference, it's all up to preference.
I switch between the two, as twelve hundred is faster to say, but it also takes a second for a person to realize that twelve hundred = one thousand two hundred... at least it does for me.

>>382
your joking?

>>399
Ah, thanks. It seems NYC is different in many ways, not just accents.
I also thought Californians had a different accent than people from Florida, but
both states are fairly large so probably there are many kinds of accents.

Thanks for explaining the pronunciation of the number. I always hear "twelve hundred thirty-four" in my head when I read 1234.

>>400
You got the answer so you should thank him.

>>402
How can he tell it's not joking when he's thinking he may be kidding?

>>382
有り難う！
^^

high ways of Japan are neo futuristic! compared to Louisiana Highways

>>405
Highway is good but sometime taking Rout 66 type of roads is good, too.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4286991
counted 46
....
that is alot of 4's ^^
wait
thats my personal number!

66 so far

Question of the day: What would you do for a Klondike bar?

74 total i seen!
that must be the highway of death
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Sparky, I'm giving you homework.
Remember my posting guidelines? You said you saved them somewhere, right?
Re-type them in a new post on this thread, please.
Don't just copy/paste. I'd like you to type them yourself.

>>409
I would stop being a bad person. Just kidding, klondikes aren't good enough.

>>409
Who's Klondike?

>>411

i was only counting the sighs!

>>411
Wasn't those the guidelines which should hold his posting count down or something?

Seems we have a few Americans and some other posters in this thread right now, so I want to ask this particular question:

Do you think British English like the one you hear on BBC news is difficult to understand? (If you're used to British accents, read it as American English as in CNN or something.)

I'm used to American English and haven't listened to British accents very much,
so it's a little harder to figure out what they say in British English.
My German and Russian friends who both learned BBC like English say American Accents is harder to understand.
Probably that's because our overall English skills are limited.
But I want to know if native English speakers who have used the language whole their lives have a similar experience.

Also, I think it's the best time to ask what the mp3 file posted by >>330 is saying.
Sparky kindly listened to it and I believe he's right, but getting more inputs doesn't hurt.

>>416
As a Swedish i don't have any problem understanding British English nor American English.
Though I do like to hear British English more than American English.

>>417
Thanks. I guess that's because you're already quite fluent in English?
If that's the case, native speakers won't have any trouble hearing British/American accents, I think.

>>416
アジア訛りで充分だろ
東洋人丸出しの顔で白人気取りに見えんのも逆に痛いし

>>419
wat

for mac users:

http://perian.org/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=915D874D-D747-4180-A400-5F06B1B5E559&displaylang=en

>>393
I watched some of the videos made by him and they are very good.
Acting skills are great. You searche on youtube to find videos of
someone from NY?

>>416
Not a problem to understand the British. I think the accent sounds cool from a man, but silly from a woman.
I also find the dialect to be silly, but you can say the same about modern American dialect.

>>422
Sure I did, but those weren't as great at least to me.
I think he's got an awesome talent for making short blog-ish vids.

>>423
Really? I like to hear girls speak with thick accents if the language is Japanese (I have huge trouble understanding non-standard English).

>>424
Videos I watched are subbed so it's good to watch them.
I think I'll watch some more.

>>426
Did you watch his vid about hospitalized guys? That was hilarious.
If you like his vids, you should watch it.

Can I fit in in the Japanese Internet?
If i knew Japanese

>>427
I've just watched the video.

The moral of the story is, "Blind people lie."

Yeah, very funny.

>>404
Sure, I wouldn't mind saying no problem on behalf of >>389 but I was just confirming
that you saw a sign that's actually there in the video and made a big deal out of it,
I didn't know what it was for either. Anyway, it's definitely something I would miss easily if I
didn't pay much attention, though.

>>428
You can fit in the Japanese internet if you behave and observe the
rules.

I was wondering if this Japanese internet and English internet is unique to
your vocabulary.

>>428
You can fit in anywhere if you don't blog post all the time

>>416
Personally, I find neither particularly difficult to understand. It's
once you get into the local accents and dialecstts that you start having
problems...

>>433
Try understanding talk from the 'hood'. It's impossible.

>>433
When I went to Durham and talked to local guys, I couldn't even notice it's English at first!
I had no problem to communicate when I was staying in London, though sometimes I needed to ask to repeat.
This kind of problem doesn't happen whichever state I go to in the US...
I seems I need to get used to British English.

>>434

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U7vPhe9bV0

This is as "hood" as it gets. Although they enunciate a bit more than others.

If you can understand this song then you are set.

"Dem boys pussy - born without a backbone
and if you're strapped we can trade like the DOW Jones"

^lol

>>436
English aside, I don't quite understand why this is popular in the world. Because I'm too old?

>>437

Yes. Almost nobody except black people like this kind of music.

>>436
Is this like a famous rapper from Tennessee?

The first 5 seconds was like "Xsn, XX ma nigga drah man sumX I need you to do sumX XXX (he lost me there) XX just to warm em up."

It doesn't matter if everybody likes that kind of music.

What matters most is Slim Shady is in All of us.

>>441
Eminem is ok. At least I can hear the lyrics. But the linked vid really sounded like >>440.

"Chronic Future" is a band I like.
They do a strange mix of rock and rap.

Actually, I don't know much about music.
Maybe it isn't "rock", but something else.
Maybe "rock and rap" is incorrect; maybe there's a name for this specific combination.
In any case, I enjoy listening to their music.

Also, here's something that might entertain you.
It's two people, rapping about the harshness of life in the suburbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcC66gEtBLo

Kanye is better

Being not able to understand these lyrics makes us English learners
disapponting.

It's better to give up listening and understanding each and every words in
rap for our mental health as English learners.

>>439

No, but this is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ykKhZpMmmw&feature=related

I actually like this group. Much of their older music from 1995 or so
sounds a lot like trance.

>>443
I watched to the video. It's amateurish but sounds like fun.
Although I can't understand only 20% or less but I can tell
they are complaining their life.

>>447
Would you like me to link you to the lyrics?
You're right, by the way--it's an amateur group.
Specifically, it's an amateur comedy group.
Their videos are awfully strange, but some of them are funny.

>>443
I just checked a bunch of songs by Chronic Future and I understood what you meant.
They do stuff from pure hip hop to straight rock but don't sound like a mixture band.
I kind of liked it.

>>448
Yeah, let me see the lyrics. Thanks.

>>450
http://www.baratsandbereta.com/lyrics/suburbanites.html

>>451
Thanks.
I doubt I can really understand funny points in the lyrics but at least
I understand there're lots of things American people empathized
with in the lyrics, especially people living in suburbs.

>>414
Do it please, sparky.

>>415
"post count down" is a side effect.
The main intent is to keep his posts relevant and worthwhile.

>>435
Durham is about 15 minutes north by train from here... once you get up there,
they start speaking in a dialect known as 'Geordie', with a crazy accent.
You're not alone - the rest of the UK can barely understand them either.

And on the topic of rap, I'm surprised Noriaki hasn't been brought up again...

>>455
So you live in north England. Have you been there? The Cathedral was awesome!

Hi, jook. Good morning. Here is Sunday mornig. Well, speaking of Sparky, he didn't do somhthing bad at least in the past a few days. So I think he can be forgiven for the time being.

>>457
He was doing really well for a couple days, but I think there are times when is posts have been going downhill.

Anyway, happy Sunday! Do you have any plans for today?
For me, it's still Saturday evening, and I'm going to a Christmas party later.

>>437
It's okay, even I don't understand, and I'm the right age.
This kind of music, when you live with it every day as Americans do, can turn you into a racist really fast.
The only people who understand it is the people who like the music and the talk, but it's a pretty foolish trend if you think about it.

>>445
You know, there is something nice about listening to lyrics you cannot understand. Rap is different, as I just don't like the style...
But there is some music which is nice just because of the voice and the background music, like opera.
Furthermore, I've been a fan of Ayumi Hamasaki's music, even though I don't understand her. Actually, her lyrics do not appeal to me at all, so I wouldn't want to understand her.
Sometimes non-lyrical music is best, like classical and electronic, and jazz. I listen to many types of music.

>>456
Yeah, I've been to the cathedral a couple times. It's really nice to see
by train, too. Makes a change from the plain towns and villages you pass
through. Last time I was walking down by the river by the cathedral, a boat
went by full of students dressed as pirates, shouting at passers-by.

Did you visit anywhere else on your travels here?

>>458
Yes, he becomes bad boy spmetimes. It's maybe his characteritics.

Christmas comes around soon and today is happy Sunday!
but I can't enjoy this situation because I have to prepare for the importat tests and study a lot.
You seems to enojoy this season very much.
It's good!
Please let me know what kinds of party and it is and what do you do tomorrow after returning home from
the party!

>>461
There will be food and drinking and talking to people, and a very amusing gift exchange game.
Tomorrow, I will have another Christmas at my grandparents' house.
In all, I will have five Christmases this season. I had one party last night.
Christmas Eve will be at my Sister's place, and Christmas day is at my home.

Tonight's party is with my dive club - a group of scuba divers.

>>455
Now that you request it,
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=-8XSGqO7vwk&feature=related

For those who don't understand Japanese, here's the video introducing him
in English. You'll know how great he is.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=tWXSkgStqls&feature=related

For アメリカ人、you can see him when he was invited to Waseda's
culture festival.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=3ruNVjOKRW8&feature=related

>>462
What a fulfilled life you are leading !
I hope I'm in the similar situation to it.

>>464
I suppose I have a fairly active social life.
Sometimes it seems like too much though. I like having close friends, but it can be difficult doing things all the time.
Even though I get them often enough, I treasure days when I can stay at home and not have to worry about others.

..to it (next year).

Things change. That's life.

But there's only one thing that never changes:


--------------------NORIAKI IS DA REAL---------------------------------

noriaki? te nani?

>>460
You mean in the UK? London and Durham are the only cities I've been to.
I walked around Durham for a few days. I looked around the city area, took a walk along the river near Cathedral,
and went for a walk in other areas near Cathedral for the rest of my trip.
Durham is a beautiful area and people over there were nice.
Apparently you don't think it's exotic rural, but to me Durham is full of beautiful nature and aesthetically beautiful buildings.

London was also exotic to me: the buses, the police uniforms, huge European style train stations, and a whole lot more.
It was really a big city, but nothing like Tokyo.

>>465
As far as I read your way of life, you semm to be a typital American.
(maybe only a stereotpe though)

Ok, I decided one thing. I'll intrude on the place you are in and steal some chickens,
without being noticed as if I were ninjya. Be careful.

雛形あきこ is cute.

I went to some Japanese styled restaurant tonight. It was one of those
restaurants where they cook the food on a flat grill 3 feet away from where you
sit. The chefs are really skilled there. I got some kind of rice /w vegetables
and some kind of chicken. Pretty good.

>>472
Your post made me hungry. I gotta go out for lunch.

>>468

He is a musician in >>463.

＞where they cook the food on a flat grill 3 feet away from where you
　sit.
I know there some restaurants in America which are kinds of Japanese styles.
In Japan, however, the case that cooks make dishes in front of customers is rare
except Sushi and Ramen restaurants.

Tennessean have interests in Japan rerated things ?

When I got internet connection for the first time, I often went to
English chatrooms overseas. It was really annoying to be asked "asl?" the first thing
every time I entered a chatroom and I was extremely fed up with it. They didn't even say,
Hi or How are you or this kind of greeting. So I came up with a
solution to counter the bombardment of "asl?" and it worked.

A: asl?
Me: ppm?
A: huh?
Me: ppm?
A: what?
Me: ppm?
A: What do you mean?
Me: I'm asking your ppm.
A: huh? what's that?
Me: I means nothing. Gotcha.

>>477
If you hear asl in a chatroom, you know you are in the wrong place.
These chatrooms are filled with obnoxious kids. This new generation of kids are.... ridiculous.

My Grandma From Panama is here!

>>476

Yes. Anything which is awesome is cool with me.

>>477
you hit the western internets
DO NOT GO THERE!

>>480
How vague! I must be cool with you, then,

>>477
I HATE
THE WESTERN INTERNETS (they hate me the most)
i was there back in 2003-2006 (this is were i started)

it was not interesting at all

>>478
Those chatroom was the places where I sometimes heard "Wanna cyber?"
I didn't understand what it meant at first but I could guess and my guess
was right.

>>481, 483
Not all "western Internets" are bad. To communicate in those chatroom
was hard because:
They use abbriviation like, brb, ROFL or you name it.
They don't care if English isn't my mother tongue, which is of course.
Not many people are interested in Japan so we don't have much to talk about.

Foreigners in this thread are more or less interested in Japan so
it's easy to communicate.

>>477
What dose ppm mean anyway?

>>484
Don't feel so bad about their disinterest. If you lived in America, or ever visted for long enough, you would understand what's wrong with these kids.
It's mostly our television. American TV has been so awful lately, I think it's to blame for these new kids being overly sexual and also close-minded to other cultures.
I have a few of them on my instant messaging friend list. Their are only two words to describe them - stupid and slutty.

Not to worry though, all of us are proof that America's internet isn't bad, you were just looking in the wrong place, and the wrong age.

hi?

>>485
Parts per million
or
Pants phobia madness

hi?

>>486
i glad im not watching tv
it is polluted
you whent too far west

>>486
But people were, are, and will always be slutty anyway.
English has words such as puritan and pietist because humans have irresistible sexual desire.
If we're not slutty by nature, you don't even come up with those words.

>>485
It means nothing. I mean, that's the abriviation I made and I don't
even know what it means. I was so annoyed by "asl?" questions so
I just pulled their legs.

>>486
I don't blame them. I'm aware that average American don't care about foreign
countires, Japan for that matter.
It's like they think America is the center of the world and it's
true in a way economically and politically.

I don't mean to lump all Americans together and call them stupid and
slutty. I know what you mean though.

>>487>>489
Hi, what's up?

>>492
THAT IS 100% fact
I am not like all the other Americans.

I am INTERESTED in foreign stuff.

asl, a/s/l, or a,s,l = Age/Sex (gender)/location (state)

yawn
....
iperfer
PPM

>>491
Sure, but the kids I see every day, they are taking it too far for their age.
>>492
I talked about this a few threads ago. I said that when you are born in America, you have it all.
Some Americans don't care about other countries BECAUSE they don't have to. You wonder why Americans don't know more than one language? This is why, they don't have to.
It's rude, and its counterproductive, but Americans can get away with this because of where they live.
I don't hate America, and I don't hate all Americans, because we live in such a place where its hard NOT to take these things for granted, it's the only way we've ever known.
You know what I mean? I hate some, but at the same time I understand the rest.

There is a significant difference in your mind between after and before you do musturbation. Especially when you are being in its boarderline, you can recognize a dramatic change. This is kinds of a philosophical matter. You can write a paper with this.

>>494
It can be TJK, RFO, GHY or whatever you like. ^^

>>495
I remeber you talking about it a few threads ago.
As for learning a foreign language, I just wonder what people in
other English countires such as UK, NZ, Canada... are like.
At least they don't need to learn foreign language.
But I guess they don't think they are the center of the world in terms
of economy and politics.

It's cool to hate America, though, even in America. It's ok, I can take your hate!

>>496
Tell me how you change.

Before finish, you feel like doing more, but after finish, you don't feel like doing anymore. This change occures in your mind within 0.1 second... What a amazing phenomenon this is!

>>500
Same goes for me.
I hear it goes for everyone, there is an immediate turn-off in your body... there must be some reason for this, maybe to not tire you out, or to let you continue your other life functions without worrying about sex.

>>500
You are the king of masterbation, sir.

>>501
Hmm... But your theory doesn't explain why females recover from the turn-off in such a short minute.

>>500 I agree with your synthesis. I think so.
>>500 I'm a champion.

OOPS. I meant >>501 and >>502.

I hear often hear men do masterbation because it feels like semen accumulates
in their balls and they can't help but feeling urge to release it from there out
side of your body.

But I never felt semen accumulate nor the desire to release it from there,
maybe becasue my ability to produce semen is low and I'm a sexually
weak man. Then why do I do masterbation? Becasue it just feels good to
do it. I never feel urge to do it although during the act and
the moment of ejaculation, it feels good if you know what I mean.

Most men say they can't sleep well if they don't do it but I can
sleep very well without it and I would be OK if I didn't do it
for a month or longer.

>>503
Perhaps because they require multiple attempts?

>>506
"and I would be OK if I didn't do it
for a month or longer."
If you were to visit 4chan, this would be impossible.

>>507
Does that mean females need multiple partners per se?

>>509
Well, it would explain some things, wouldn't it!


Also, it's best for genetics.

>>508
What do you mean? Lots of masterbation resourses there?
I am not tunred on or don't get horny just by lookig at porn actor's
nude photo or Erotic anime.

I only turned on by nude photo of amateurs. I have seen at /b/ amateurs'
self-nude photos but haven't seen attractive women's photos there.
I'm not a regular there so it's just me that I've never seen good
amateur nude photos there.

>>510
But a ménage à trois usually implies a man with multiple wives, right?
I've only heard of a male polygamist.

Hidey ho neighbors! If anyone is looking for a feel-good human interest piece,
here's one I ran across: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7748
Could Mansour be the happiest man in the world?

>>511
You should try sniffing panties instead.

Please give me a bit fat American pretty girl, or I'll lend you very pretty girl living in a display.

Looking back at my post >>512, I'm wondering how Americans pronounce a ménage à trois.
I haven't heard Americans actually pronounce it. When I run across the word, I always hear it in a French accent in my head.

Anyone here, never fails to watch two soccer matches.

>>513
You should introduce me to the best hostfamily first.

Talking about a hostfamily, the family in the video you showed
must be an ideal host family for you to stay with.

>>516
I'd rather watch M-1 Grand Prix.

>>515
I try to give it a french pronunciation, but hearing the New York accent for a french work might be strange to you.
>>511
If you visit the right boards, you'd find lots of things.

>>519
>If you visit the right boards, you'd find lots of things

Such as? I haven't gone deeper in 4chan so I need some examples.
I'm not lolicon by the way.

>>520
>I'm not lolicon by the way.
Oh, well then rule out /g/.
I only really visit /g/, but I'm guessing there's something on 4chan for everyone, it's just a matter of time.

>>519
>hearing the New York accent for a french work might be strange to you.

I don't think so. Other French origin words like en route are often pronounced the way you just described, and they don't sound strange.

>you'd find lots of things.

Very yes. DFC for the win.

>>522
"Very yes. DFC for the win."
You got it.

??
SKEET!
wwww

Is it just me, or are all Japanese in here who write excellent colloquial English actually 4channers?

>>525
I'm >>520 and I've just visited 4chan a few times when I heard here that
you can see amateur girls's nude photos in /b/.

I don't understand what DFC is.

>>526
/b/ is no good.
As for "I don't understand what DFC is."
If you don't know, it's best not to find out.

>>526
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>>526
the whole english speaking internet is bad!
for me that is!

>>527
All right.

>>528
That must be facepalm AA or palmface..I forgot which is right.
What does facepalm or palmface mean? Is it the same as orz?

>>530
Yes, facepalm is a reaction of frustration when words just won't do.

>>531
Got it.

>>526
Cumwhores and attention whores don't count as an *amateur* girl by the way.

>>530
DFC is a meticulously flattened chest, which only a miracle of the universe is endowed with.
If you lurk 4chan for a while, you'll see a pic of a flat wooden desk-like chest with a green text saying DELICIOUS.
It is so flat and beautiful that people who see it blurt out an impulsive "Delicious..."
The color of DFC is amazingly pristine white like the most expensive porcelain in China.
Yet it has a softer touch than anything else in the world.
I said "touch," but you can't touch it in real life because of earthly obstacles you can't escape from such as FBI.

Behold the miracle, and you will be enlightened.

Has Japan discovered Vince yet? He is the greatest salesman to have ever
lived!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUbWjIKxrrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwRISkyV_B8

>>533
I lol'd...

>>534
I can't watch youtube right now but I can just hear him in my head:
IT'S MADE BY THE GERMANS, GERMANS ALWAYS MAKE GOOD STUFF

I could do anything what I want to.

>>533
In a nutshell, it's a body of a girl who hasn't matured yet?
Do 4channelers find such photos somewhere on the Net and post it
with the word DELICIOS in green text? Or the girls post such photos
on her own to get attentions? Maybe I'm asking too much.

>>534
ShamWow... What has science done?!?

I love the voice actor at the end of the vids. I hear his voice everywhere.

http://l4cs.jpn.org/gikopoi/flash/gikopoi116_gen/flash_gikopoi.html
RESCUE ME IM AT THE STAIRS TO THE HILLTOP!!!!!
this is a distress call!
im in a trap being held by a へんたい GIRL！

>>534
We have a person who is equivalant to the man on the videos.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=WXIeJRDdvP0&feature=related

http://l4cs.jpn.org/gikopoi/flash/gikopoi116_gen/flash_gikopoi.html
HELP ME PEOPLE!

Strange thing is occuring in my house. It is warmer outside of my house than inside of my house by around two degrees. It's interesting.

>>541
I don't know what you are talking about but I tried to log in gikoppoi
but failed again and again with a message saying your access is cut off
try again.

>>534
Thanks. He's definitely awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aVXU3V5EVo&NR=1

http://l4cs.jpn.org/gikopoi/flash/gikopoi116_gen/flash_gikopoi.html
>>543
*サヤカ* ： I put a banana in the hole now
火花(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田◆AZWpeumso. ： fsdDFFRTUWUS F
*サヤカ* ： umm....oh....oh..yes...oh..
火花(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田◆AZWpeumso. ： YOU STOE......... aaaaaaaaah my virginity >.<*
*サヤカ* ： aaaah...yes...ahh...ummm
火花(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田◆AZWpeumso. ： aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh............
*サヤカ* ： great...great your big banana!! aaaaaaahh....

HELP!

>>539 Congratuation! I cannot see it through my cell-phone, but I know it's not bad thing (*^o^*)

>>535
I am most delighted that my humble English could entertain a gentleman in this thread.

I was amazed by Shamwow by >>534 and just found an even more awesome parody here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9fmnAsgdg&feature=related

>>548
haha thats good

Bushs movement is really quick.

>>550
Yeah, he didn't forget to duck. The President we admire did forget though.

>>Responses to 550
seems mr bush has ninja skills

He isn't the war president for nothing, you know! He has escaped numerous
assassination attempts before.

Nobody can hit bush by shoe.
He is too quick.

>>553
It sounds familiar somehow. I think I heard some Democrat woman dodged bullets and managed to shake hands with a local kid or something.

>>555
HILLARY, WOMAN WARRIOR

The mistakes the thrower made was he aimed at bush's face.
He should have thrown shoes aimed at his chest. Bush could duck quickly
enough but probably could't sway his body sideways to fend of the shoes.

Another mistake was he didn't throw shoes one after the other without
intervals. He should have prepare for what-if-Bush-will-fend-off-the-first-shoes
scenario.

I am not like you, I told you.

What's the difference between loli and pedo? This is my poor understanding.
A pedo is a matured man who seeks a loli girl. Right?

>>559
Yes.
Pedos target lolis.
Lolis have DFC.
Pedos touches DFC.

>>467
In a strange, perverse kind of way, I missed seeing things like this.

>>497
At school, we have to learn a foreign language, and usually have a choice
between French, German or Spanish (because they're all pretty close, I guess).
Some schools, however, have better language departments and a wider range
to choose from at junior high-school level. The rival school to my own, during
the time I was there, offered languages such as Japanese, Arabic, Mandarin and
Swedish.

>>515
You should hear how most of them (try to) pronounce "Worcestershire Sauce",
and that's English...

>>469
Durham is a really pretty city... though it's smaller than most medium-sized
towns, yet still classed as a city. However, a lot of people would be hard-
pressed to find things to do around there for more than a day or two. You'd
probably really like the city of York. With Roman then Viking roots, it's such
an old-feeling place.

Why did people from /g/ come to 2ch?

forgot my name

>>562
let me introduce you to
>>216

Never did this thread gather such many native-English speakers ever, I think, though I'm not sure. At first sight, this situation appears to be good tendency. However, there are bad aspects.Like Rome empire, which became too large to collapse.

What goes up must come down, as Isac Newton's law of gravity says.
Let it all be as it wishes to be.

>>563
Wait a sec. Are you the tripfag on /a/ and /g/? I mean, are you using the same name here?

>>565
This is how 4chan ruins everything it touches.

hi

>>556 Well, it's like the basic principle of economics. Invisible God's hand.

Ah, I just remembered athens said he was peeking at 2ch before.
Well, if you're the fucktard, I've been learning English by trolling you and others over there.

Oh, I almost forgot. You're really good at trolling. I admire you, athens. Suck your cock later.

>>568
Well at least you didn't get the idiots who reside in /b/ to this board.

>>572
I'm sure >>571 is as stupid as /b/tards.

Sounds like it.

as well as others...

>>573
Well he's not that dumb, those who reside in /b/ can only use words like "You laugh you lose" etc.
The people on /b/ can't troll either because they're to stupid to actually use any real form of English.

>>576
They're just pretending to be dumb and stupid, you know...

We have to prevent Sparky from being brought back to 4chan! This is a battle between 2chan and 4chan. Until now 2ch has been advantageous against 4chan.The fact that your Captain have become our company gives it a evidense.

If my memory serves me correctly, athens came in here long time ago, like last year,
and he goes to college in London or something like that. Btw, how are you doing, athens?

>>577
Yeah I know, but sometimes I just can't help but thinking that they're that stupid in real life.

I prefer a bit fat girl to a slendar girl.
To say the other words,I like a big bubs.

>>580 What is your mother tongue ?

>>582
Swedish

>>578
Yes, it's a battle without a cause or honor and we all dine in hell.

>>583 People in Sweden are likely to be good at English ?

>>585
Yeah we begin to learn English here at 9 years age, sometimes even earlier.
I learned my first English word at the age of seven.

>>579
How was he doing in this thread?

>>584 Yea, this is an extremely pieceful battle. Nobody in outside won't notice that we are in the war.

Anyone know how I read pruned threads on 2ch?
I'm pretty green when it comes to 2ch and just want to know if the pretentious douche is as gynophobic in here.
I guess he's just another nice guy though. I know even retards like me post politely in proper English when they want to, but still...

>>586 Wow. Swedish has similarities with English ?

>>587
I don't really remember, but he was pretty kind to people here, answering questions and
chatting. He's alright I guess, nothing like as asshole or anything.

>>590
Yes most of our words have big similarities with it's English counterparts. For example "Knife=Kniv" in Swedish.
And both languages are from the same language family.

I just remembered, but maybe I'm misunderstanding. If my memory is correct, he said that he had been to Osaka and ate takoyaki there.

>>592 Thanks for the interesting information.

>>593
I can vaguely recall that episode, someone was explaining takoyaki to someone.
Maybe that was him.

>>591
Thanks. I always thought he was actually kind of a reserved guy in real life and would be nice to everyone if you see him in person.
If you want to know how he's messing around on 4chan, it's like a guy spouting hypocritical faggotry using unnecessary Latinate words.
Whenever he starts a thread on /a/, a sage bomb begins.
His post is always tl;dr-ish for most of ADHD kids. It's totally ok when he's on /r9k/ though.

>>593
Seems his Japanese is good. It'll be hard to understand Kansai dialect if you don't have a good command of the language.

>>596
Well, I guess his mother tongue is Greek and had a vast amount of vocabulary of it.
And I don't frequent 4chan so it doesn't really matter to me, but thanks anyway.

>>597
Actually I like his persona on 4chan.

>>595 I have wondered who the person was actually and why there aren't even one person here who remembers his exisistence. I'm not sure whether he is actually who I think of. Well, I feel a bit happy now.

>>561
Wustersheer sauce.

>>590
Both belong to the same language family, Germanic languages
http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html

Although English has imported a lot of words from other languages.
Many of our nouns are French in origin.
I don't know about the UK, but in the US we also have imported many expressions
from Spanish too.

>>600
Close enough to make me proud, well done.

We don't have too many Spanish loan-phrases, but that's probably more
to do with having a large Spanish population in the US. I think you
probably have all the other foreign loan-phrases that we do... we don't
really have anything new.

>>601 I had thought the languages like Germanic is actually based on English until I read it. It seems that It's completely reverse（counter? I don't know which one to say. Please let me know it.)

I think i scored something!
i think i scored a girl friend!

>>603
this sounds better:

"I had thought that Germanic languages were based upon English until I had read them. It seems that it's the opposite"

is this what you are trying to say?

>>604

No, you wouldn't be on 2ch still if that was the case.

>>606
online!!!!
at gikopoi general

>>606
i second that

>>604

Is that she in >>545?
Where's she from?
What do you mean by a girlfriend? You mean going out with?

>>607
So you speak or at least read Japanese?
Because I don't understand gikopoi at all.
But anyways, if that is where your girlfriend is, then my advice to you is to
get out more.

>>610
米人、have you decided what you'll give your kids on Christams?
Electric gadget or someting? Maybe video game or something.

This is my responce for sparky being on gikopi.

＞Japan’s trains seem to have developed their own highly disturbing (though not, it has to be said, all that dangerous) culture of madness,
with all manner of crazed antics, miserable cowardice and occasional valour on display
… As well as dread cosplay. Isn’t public transportation marvellous?

No that isn't. but it definitely is in some parts of the story. Japan’s trains should transport people commuting to office or school.
Such people that celebrating riotously in train are just a fraction of douchebbags or foreign language instructors from overseas.
You have typical stereotype since don't have seen what its real scene is.

>>609
yes

>>609
she is from Japan

>>611
I'll tell you if you promise to keep it a secret!
My daughter is getting a Kit Kittredge American girl doll, plus some accessories
that go with it.
Incidentally, Kit Kittredge's story is set during the Great Depression. Very timely.

My son is getting PS3 games: Resistance II, Sonic Hedgehog and one of the Star Wars ones. The PS3 system
was expensive, so it was part of his birthday and Christmas present.

My husband already received his gifts: a vanilla bean vine, a cacao tree and a peppercorn plant.
He likes having tropical plants growing in our the living room. We already have a coffee tree, a miniature orange tree, a
lemon tree, a key lime bush and a miniature banana tree.
Of course, yours truly is the one who takes care of these things.

>>615
wow!

a forest in the living room!

>>612
People will do things in foreign countries that they wouldn't do back home.
Last July, my family returned from the 4th of July fireworks on the train. It was
very late at night, and it was crowded. A group of young German tourists sang
songs the whole freaking way to the last station. They even sang "Happy Birthday"
to someone (not part of their group). It wasn't offensive, but it was strange.
I would bet that they wouldn't behave like that on a German subway.
You see some pretty weird behavior if you live in a tourist town. I won't even
go into the antics I saw back in Newport RI when the Navy still had a base there.

>>617
AWESOME!

why dont you try me?

????

I'm VIPPER from VIP.

VIPPER is the pride of Japan.

Are you afraid of VIP QUALITY?

>>621
No. You're wrong in so many ways I can't facepalm enough. GTFO.

>>616
Yeah, we've actually harvested lemons, limes, tiny sour oranges and
coffee beans. The first year we only had three coffee beans, so my husband
made the world's smallest cup of coffee--one teaspoonful. This year, there are
over 20 beans; maybe we can make a whole cup.

For some reason that I don't understand my sister gave me the book "Stuff White People Like" for
Christmas. Glancing through it, I see that yes, indeed, I am a white person.
Incidentally, Asian girls (#11 for white guys), Sushi (#42) and Japan (#58) all made the list. So did
the Nintendo Wii (#125).
#1 though was coffee.
Boston Red Sox came in at #100(!?) It was the only sports team to make the list, although Wrigley field was included
at #30.

>>623
Part of me wants to know if Asian boys made the list, and the greater part doesn't.

>>623
By 'white people', does it mean 'white Americans'?

>>624
Trust me, you don't want to know.
If it's any consolation, the comparison of the advantages of Asian
women over white women from a white male's perspective was pretty harsh.
It's a pretty silly book.

>>626
Th-thank you, ma'am...

>>625
Not just white Americans, but latte-sipping, liberal affluent bicoastal types.
I see, the author is a Canadian. That explains A LOT.

American wannabes. And I mean that in the nicest way.

I wanna getting a chocolate with crunched orange peel. It's my gusto.

>>628
What is the stereotype of Canadian you are getting at? Is it >>629?

>>629
At least that's better than the French.

>>631
Nah, I'm just kidding. I don't really have anything against Canada or Canadians.
But I couldn't help but be irritated by #105, "Pretending to be a Canadian when traveling abroad".
Now I can't wear my nice maple leaf pin outside the US.
http://www.pinmart.com/canada-flag-pin.aspx

>>630
Sounds good!

>>633
>"Pretending to be a Canadian when traveling abroad".

When my American and Canadian friends went to Iraq, the American guy joked,
"If something awful happens, you can say, 'I'm Canadian, I'm Canadian.'"

>>634
Unfortunately, in some places in the world, I think it would be better not
to advertise one's American citizenship.
But why would they go to Iraq? Surely they weren't on vacation.

My son is kicking me off of the computer now.
He needs to shoot some Zergs.
I need to get back to wrapping presents. I'm only 1/2 done.
Catch you later!

>>636
Zergs? That means her son is playing Starcraft. That also means it is
80% likely that he is Korean.

>>635
They're associate professors in University, and they went to do research and give talks in math conferences.

I just noticed Japanese posters don't say good bey or see ya when they leave this thread.
So I'm gonna be the first. Good night!

When I go to stores, I almost always put on a British or Australian accent just for fun.
I've gotten pretty good at it too. I've gotten tips from British and Australian friends over
Ventrillo and I sound just about like them now.

When I go drive-thru, I put on either an Asian-y or Indian accent.

Because all Asians sound the same.

>>636
KEKEKEKE
ZERG RUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>615

I'm >>611. I didn't know Kit Kittredge American girl so I googled it.
That's a movie released this year. I wonder if it was released in Japan
this year, too.

>>623
You have green thumbs! I guess it's really delicious to drink coffee
whose beans are grown by yourself.

>"Stuff White People Like"
When I read the title, I felt somehow familiar with it. That must be from
a very popular blog with the same title. I actually bookmarked the blog before although
I haven't read it though. I just bookmarked it for later reference
but I forgot that I even bookmarked it. I thought it's a good resourse
to know how white Americans think of themselves. I didn't knwo the blog
writer is Canadian.

The blog is so popular among white Americans that a publisher gave an
offer to the blog writer to publish it as a book, I guess.

Could you tell me what's different between "brand new" and "new"?
I checked an online dictionary, but I didn't understand.

For example, what do you think is different between a brand new camera and a new camera?
Thanks.

>>605 Yes,that's what I meant. Oh, Thanks a lot!

>>644
"Brand new" is more emphatic and less formal than "new." For example,
you might see "brand new" in game shows, when the host reveals the prizes,

>>644
"New" can be used to describe something different, such as if you get
a second-hand coat, you might still say "I got a new coat", because you
didn't have it previously. "Brand new", however, always means something
new from the retailer or manufacturer (in the case of material objects,
anyway).

>>640
Demonstrate and upload it and let us listen to it.

You are good at imitating those sounds peculiar to Britsih and Australian
accents. That explains why you won the Elvis impersonator contest.

>>646
Who are you? Are you a natuve English speaker?

>>644
Brand new is more like something which just came out of the factory.
New is more a meaning for something that you just got, but it have been on the shelves for a while.

For example: You don't often buy a brand new car directly from the factory, instead you buy one which has already gone a
few miles between the factory and the cars dealer, or it has already been used by someone before you. Therefore it's not straight
out of the factory, but it's still new to you.

>>646
Thanks.

>>647
Thank you very much.
Now I can tell the difference!

>>644
"Brand new" emphasizes that you just got the item. Like yesterday.
"New" alone just means that you recently purchased/received this item. So your new car
could be your new car for a year or so after you get it, but your brand new car is the one
you bought yesterday or a week ago.

>>643
The book does come from that same blog.

>>637
He does play Starcraft. That he is also Korean is a surprise to me.

>>640
The only time I went to Europe, it was on a trip to the UK. My husband (who is a
good mimic) spoke in a fake British accent the whole time we were there, because I made
him go. I spent much of the time hissing at him quietly "Will you just shut up!".
Boy, that brings back memories.

Back to the wrapping dungeon...why oh why did I buy so much stuff for the kids???

>>650
Thanks. I'm sure I can use the words properly from now on.

>>653
Here's another phrase for you, since you are doing so well:
"brand spanking new"
It's even newer than "brand new".
Now I'm really leaving...

Sooooo... it snowed EVEN MORE.

>>654
Thanks again.
Spanking sounds like hitting again and again, but that's just me. ^^

>>655
Sorry to hear that.
I really don't like snow. lol
Kids would love to play in the snow, though.

>>655
snow is something i would log out for!
i LOVE IT THAT MUCH!

>>657
Really? I'm a child at heart. I jumped in the snow.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/charpersondude/PC210020.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/charpersondude/PC210023.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/charpersondude/PC210026.jpg

It's over a foot now... I'd guess it's around 40cm or 16 inches of snow by now, maybe more!
In the second picture I jumped in as a marker, but I didn't even reach the bottom because its compacted! It did get up to my knees though, and I was very cold.

>>655
Send some over the Atlantic will ya.

>>660
I certainly have enough, I think.

>>659
I can't believe it. You were wearing only a T shirt. lol
Captain Spicade sails on the snow.

>>659
Is it on the table of the third picture a baked cake?

>>663
Special kind of cookie my mother makes for the holiday. It's going to be cut up into smaller pieces, its some sort of cookie with chocolate and nuts layered in between.

>>659
>I'm a child at heart.
WHAT?
ME TOO!

>>665
No, you are a child in practice. lol

>>659
Goddamn, Chicago got blasted as well. We have about a foot of snow and it's 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
I wish all this could have happened before my winter break (although we never get snow days in the city)...
Maybe I'll take a picture of my backyard later lol.

>>664
Oh, that's not a cake but cookie before cut into pieces.
Sounds yummy.

This ones for you, Captain Spicard.
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh15/supporter555/picard-facepalm.jpg
Enjoy!

Just to clarify...that wasn't a comment on anything you said.
I just thought you were a fan of the show.

In Florida, there is no snow, it is just a tad chilly.

70 degrees Fahrenheit is not cold

10F here, 34mph winds making it feel like -11F

>>671
Why florida? You're in Florida now?

>>670
Haha, oh yes.

Be careful not to catch a cold, boy.

>>609
http://4chan.b33r.net/my%20pictures/foda/P1000271.jpg
and this is a picture of her!

>>677
I have to tell you something. Take a listen to it.

1) There's a possibility that you're fooled. Anybody can get that sort of photo
on the Net and pretend to be the girl in the photo.

2) To prove 1) is not the case, you can ask her to write something
on a piece of paper and hold it when she takes a picture of herself.

3) If the picture you upload was taken by her, it's not a good idea for
everyone to see even in this thread. Did you get a permission from her
that you can let it be seen by anonymouse people?

4) Thank you very much sharing the photo.

sparky, go stand in the middle of a dark highway with your eyes closed

>>671
It's not even chilly right now. Hell it just rained and now it's humid.

Makes hearing all the christmas songs kinda weird.

>>680

It isn't raining here, but it was ridiculously humid today. The windows
of cars were really visibly moist from it... in the middle of the day. Wierd.

Yes, Florida is a terrible place to be for Christmas. I'm going back to Tennessee
tomorrow though. Florida is seemingly in a perpetual state of HUMID and hot weather which
drains your energy. I'd really hate to live here, man. Vacation is fine, but I like some variety,
ya know?

>>681
Nobody wants you in Tennesee so just keep staying there drenched in sweat.

>>682

Yea they do. I actually have friends.

Anyone using Thousand? A newer version has just released:

http://homepage.mac.com/k_natori/Cocoa/downloads/Thousand081221.zip

You can now track posters with trips just like the >>X type anchors and
see their numbers of posts in a thread when English is the primary language of your OS X.
I'm posting this using the latest version. I think this is particularly useful for threads like this.

If you're a Thousand user, let me know any bags and problems you find (or post a report in the developers' thread if you speak Japanese).

>>684
ok i am downloading this new one now

>>684
the thousand dev team should consider using this for updates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkle_(software)

>>677
Hey you've got a boyfriend, Sparky!

>>686
I guess that's because the program is still in beta, and some versions I posted in this thread are not for all users, i.e., testing-for-the-next-beta versions.
Probably they'll employ the auto-update thingy when they release a full-fledged official Thousand 1.0.

I'll read through developers' blog to see why when I have the time.

>>678
>4) Thank you very much sharing the photo.
lol
Yes, that's right!

>>677
She is Crystal, isn't it ?

Obvious faggot is faggot

Onvious faggot is obvious is correct

Come to think of it, I haven't seen Crystal for days.

Just chat with her alone somewhere if do miss her. Obsessive stalker.

She has disappeared from this thread, regrettably.
I miss her.
However, there is nothing to grieve.
On the contrary,
we should congratulate her, because she has become sparky's bride.

Sparky, don't make her feel miserable. This is my last message to you.(end)

>>695
sparky has a bride?
i feel bad for her

Yea, he got a nice bride.

>>696
You're so mean, firestar.

I make it a rule to read a weekly magazine called 'shonen-JUMP', which includes
'ONE-PIECE', 'NARUTO', 'HUNTER-HUNTER' and so on, at the nearby convenience store.

Unfortunately, however, the quolity of mangas, especially 'ONE-PIECE', are getting lower
and lower.
It is not difficult to assume the reason.
The author of 'ONE-PIECE' has become one of the most financially wealthy men.
Yes, the authors of the popular works are inevitably rich.
I think it's the reason why they have become uninteresting.

>>698
At least he's wise and honest.

hmmm is there a Japanese version copy/clone of urbandictionary.com ?

Something where anyone could define any EXTREMELY obscure terms nobody knows
except let's say few people who read some board or work in certain branch
of industry etc etc :3

I found an interesting particle in a toeic website, which is written by a Canadian!


Christmas in Japan is sometimes seen by foreign residents as being an odd
and rather disappointing occasion. This is because Japanese enjoy the
symbolism of Christmas, including such things as carols and Christmas
trees, but do not celebrate the day itself in the same way as those
in countries with a large Christian population. In Japan, Christmas is
an opportunity to go out on a date or to a party with friends or
colleagues.

In Western countries, Christmas is a time when the family comes
together to enjoy a traditional meal, the exchange of gifts, and
in many cases a visit to church. I often tell people who ask me
about Christmas in Canada that it is a bit like New Year's (shogatsu)
in Japan, and vice versa.

http://www.toeic.or.jp/square/basic/letter/index.html

>>700 yeah but he is a jerk

>>701
Maybe, this guy can answer the question.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuc8oZ06smI&feature=channel_page

I upgraded Thousand and found Sparky accounts for more than one seventh of the posts in this thread; 113 of 705 posts are him.
FYI, he posted 157 times in the last thread.

>>678
im going to tell her that

>>705
is that good?

>>706
How is your relationship with her now?
Have you become an intimate term with her ?

>>707
It all depends on the quality of your posts, I think.
That's how anonymous boards work.

>>705
sparky + jook + captain + アメリカ人 + other native-speakers + two anonimous = 100(％)

So, that is not an amazing figure.

>>708
going up slowly

>>711
That sounds good.
Then did you expose your face or something related to you to her ?

>>712
yes

http://www.otamap.com/tetsujin/circus_2/img/0001.jpg

This is real picture of sparky girlfriend

>>713
Wow, you are brave man.

Your way ahead is lighten by a beautiful sunshine, maybe!
(in the condition that you are not deceived by the girl)

>>710
>two anonymous
>two

I may not be understanding you correctly, but does that mean all anonymous posts except yours are by the same person?

>>716
It's a just kind of joke, you know.

>>715
i am!

*サヤカ* ： I sleep soon because I am early tomorrow morning.

BOB SAGGET!!!!!!!!

花 = flower
is in
火花(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田
◆AZWpeumso.

>>718
If you want to meet SAYAKA actually person to person, you can home-stay
my home and can utilize my bed room at night if you want^-^!!

(>>721)
I have to correct my sentense because in this way, I look as if being gay personlol
What I wanted to say was... you know

>>722
Yes, we know, we know. You wish to have intimate time with sparky. I am
happy that you were not afraid to say, because it takes guts to admit it.

Crude idea is crude. Faking girl is puerile pap. Obvious troll is obvious.

*サヤカ* ： You are COOL*^^*!! thankyou for today ^^* see you again Friday^^*

http://4chan.b33r.net/my%20pictures/!JPG/promotions1224724918665.jpg

>>725
Why SAYAKA is using that horrible cyber space: gikoppoi ?
She is mentally ill ?

>>726
you got it

I got it

>>7218
i must be mentally ill too

>>729
who cares?

You got it!

>>729
Umm, I'm not willing to say that mentally ill person is bad.
It's the best that you and your partner get over the illness by helping matually!

As a result ... marry.

こいつマジで厨房すぎるな

>>732
then you better marry it

電気火花

THIS IS ELECTRICAL SPARK?
RIGHT?
【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】 ミ田 evolved into
【電気火花(4 ^ヮ^)】 ミ田

>>734
What do you indicate by 'it' ?

I can sum up this shitty term as an ordinary troll when the faggot escaped from demanding identification.
Then how long can be this going on?

>>736
whatever you imagine

>>725
As a retarded 4channer, I must ask you if the pic you just posted implies you got promoted by her images, if you know what I mean.

>>737
Then what's your favorite topics ?
Let us know it.

this is what the name i was really looking for

>>741
Yea, it emphasizes sparkness well.

>>739
not promoted that way

i was promoted e-pimpin level 3 out of 4

It stays the same until you acheive greater mental well-being perhaps, 'cause everything
happens for a reason or another in life. It all depends on how you see it.

>>710
Hey you forgot me.

Any mental well-being is greater mental well-being for him.

Maybe for everyone as well.

>>740
No thanks. Even though I tried to say that this obsessive term might stink the KOREAN'S TROLL so far.

>>743
All right. But I don't think you should post her images on the internet.
WHAT IF I POST HER PIC ON /b/ OR SOME PORN *CHAN?

I won't do that. I promise. But maybe, just maybe, some stupid guy can go too far.
Don't post her images any more.

>>749
good idea!
http://4chan.b33r.net/sparky4/+4/h.htm
use this instead

Want some kimchi?

>>745
Oh, yes, you don't belong to any of them! Sorry×２

>>748
I don't know why you think so.

Ummm, and to bigen with, your remark s vague.
So I can't understand your thought fully.
Please express your idea concretely.

kimchi?
電気街 【でんきがい】
(n) Electric Town (Akihabara)

【電気火花(4 ^ヮ^)】 ミ田 needs to go there, to live!

kimch is kind of traditional Korean food.
IT's very spicy.

BTW you should not eat it too much, because according to a woman writer,
sperms generated by ones who eat it frequently are also spicy.

>>750
So romantic...

>>750
Interesting conversation lol
Japanese girls are generally conservative, but she is quit opposite...
Amazing.

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　　|∵ /　　三　|　三　|　　／￣￣￣￣￣
　　|∵ |　　　＿_|＿_ 　|　＜ うるせー馬鹿！
　　 ＼|　　　＼＿/　／　　＼＿＿＿＿＿
　 　 　 ＼＿＿＿_／

>>756
>So perverted....
fix'd ^^

>>758
Are you tanisige?
I prefer oda to tanisige.

>>757
so she is very different?

>>761
She is like middle aged 変態 woman.

>>758Get out! The Japanese spamner!

fuck you, chinks!

【政治】 “脱ゆとり教育” 高校では英語の授業は英語で行う！学ぶ単語も500語増え中韓とほぼ同じ水準に…新学習要領
http://mamono.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/newsplus/1229955504/

This policy will result in a failure. To begine with, there are few teachers enough skilled to speak English fluently.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFf
Why is it snowing once again?

Because clouds which contain a lot of moistures are floating over your town definitely.

>>768
Doesn't matter though, because more snow is good.
Only, I have to shovel it all, but it doesn't look like it's stopping anytime soon. That means I'll have to shovel over and over!

cool
now go out with no clothes and
shout "what a amazing utopia! what a amazing utopia!"

>>769
You can make the place where people enjoy skiing!?

>>770
Is it from a movie?

>>771
I think I'm a bit too late to make a ski resort, there are too many around!
But at this rate one could be built in front of my house.

snow is suitable for Christmas

>>773
wwwwwwww

>>769
You can make this and have dinner inside.
http://f9.aaa.livedoor.jp/~laut/akita2006/0402164.jpg

>>776

i never seen one in real live

>>773 You should make a huge snowman which is even bigger than you and take a photo.

take a photo?

take a photograph

maybe “take a photo”is wrong usage ?

“Photo”is verb and “photograph”is a noun. My simle dictionary says.

take a photo is correct, and in common usage

>>778
I'll do it!

in real life

>>783 thanx

>>784Remember to use a carrot as his nose !

ファアアアアン
眠い

I was going to rightfuly express here how great I think I am but it's known far and wide that I am the greatest being on earth ever; hence I do not need to.

I am sorry but you missed a 'l' in rightfully. You cannot truly be great
unless you have that 'l'. But I am holding it to ransom, so if you pay me
50 yen you can have it back and be truly great.

Thank you for pointing out my typo and proving that there are some people out there who have to serve me in any way necessary to make me even greater than I am. Take my 50 yen and you may go now.

Now you are poor and I am becoming great!

>>756
whats so romantic about that?

Umm...my nose feels completely blocked. I seem to come down with something.
I can't even breath throuht my nose at all. It harts to swallow as well.
My throat feels scrachy and raw. I bet it's all swallen and red.

>>794
oh you too eh?
same here.

>>793
Nothing. The context as well as the periods of ellipsis imply a
certain amount of sarcasm.

You guys might want to pick your nose as it is most likely that it's clogged up with literally shit tons of nose buggers; however, do not put them in your mouth just because nobody is watching you.

>>795
Hopefully, if I take lots of medication and wrap up really warm, I'll feel better soon.
Anyway, we need to rest up and take good care of ourselves.
Today is a holiday and it's great for me.

Welcome to American Dissident Voices, I'm Kevin Alfred Strom.

>>699
Plus, He was made to continue his work by the publishing company
regarldless of his willingness.

robotinyokohama

>>801
did you just say
yokohama?

one of my online Japanese friends is from there

Yokohama is such a small village that the chance of someone coming from
there is really low percent.

i mush have names confused

Talking about yokohama, mickey yasukawa comes first.
Mickey yasukawa has a strong connection with Tennessee too.

ミッキー安川 is japanese for Mickey Yasukawa.

http://4chan.b33r.net/my%20pictures/+meeee@_gensayaka.png
i cannot stop thinking about her!!!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAA
what is wrong with me?

Gyah, I keep meaning to come back to 2ch now that I'm on winter break, but I keep forgetting!
Well here I am... for now. O_o;

I just googled Yokohama... Quite awesome!I want to ride the ferris wheel! :3

808
thats the Yokohama i was talking about ^^

The change of Sparky's name reminds me of the evolution from Pikachu to Raichu.

>>807
That's what we call a crush, namely too many ejaculations while fantasizing about her.
Fapping to other girls will cure it sooner. The disease is temporary and not fatal per se though.

810

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
this is a 1st!

>>742

this is really electrical spark(y)?

>>812
Yes, though I think it should be "electric spark," rather than "electrical spark."

By the way, I'm not >>742, but actually >>810.

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>>813
thanks Dr. 名無しさん＠英語勉強中
^^

I hope he won't change his character after he had a chance of
getting a girl friend.
If he changes or tries to be normal, it will be proven that he has just been
driven to be queer by not having a girl friend.
If he should try to be normal being afraid to be disliked by the girl,
he would be fraud. He betrays us.

Just stay as crazy as he's been. If she embraces him, she will be your
true lover.

I hope a picture of the girl is troll. But Some Japanese girls think
whiter boys are more attractive. If she is that fetish, even
half-white, the man who has the lowest popularity in
the classroom could have a good chance.

>>816
can you simplify it? ^^
Pretty good English by the way ^^

>>797
Are you a native speaker in anonimity? Your English is different from
other anonymous people.

Sorry anonymity>

>>817 Sarcasm?
I don't think you are the type who is popular among the girls.
If you change your character to be liked by future japanese
girlfriend, it's disappointing.
Also once you have a girlfriend, you change your character and
start to keep away from otaku lifestyle and otaku people.
It's disappointing too.
As long as I read her writings, there is no worry?

>>818
How do you know that? It's only a line and change.

>>820 yes?
clogged up with : Generally japanese don't often use that phrase.
shit tons of nose buggers; however : I've heard nose buggers
for the first time. Shit + something sound very rough and native.
; generally Japanese don't use semi colon and can't use it properly.
however...Japanese prefer "but" over "however" and likely not to use "however"
properly.
I am still not sure of the diffrence between semi colon and colon.
I'm not sure whether my way of colon : is correct.

>>819
you are saying that if I do not change my Character and
she still loves me, i will have to call my dad PAWPAW?

>>808
How many times do I have to say the symblo of yokohama is
Mickey Yasukawa, ミッキー安川.
By the say Mickey Yasukawa is 英語ペラペラ, fluent English Speaker!
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=s2sJqNbwaek&feature=related

>>821
820 here. Am not >>797 and speak Japanese as my first language.
Don't think chunks like "clogged up" and "shit tons of assholes" are rare or obscure.
They're rather frequent, if you ask me.

>however...Japanese prefer "but" over "however" and likely not to use "however" properly.

Um..., sorry, I don't follow you. What are you trying to say?

As for colons and semicolons, it's not that difficult to use them properly.
But I think you can put a semicolon whenever you want to; 99% of readers don't know how to use it and you always look smarter.

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/semicolons.asp
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/colons.asp

>>824
This is a good example of using one properly...

>>819
you are saying that if I do not change my Character and
she still loves me,
ill be a Daddy?

>>824
? but and however are しかし in English. There must be a difference
in the meaning but most of japanese don't know. By the way there was a song
by glay, "however".. That seems to be pretty laughing by native speakers.

Back to the topic, Generally Japanese prefer "however" over "but" to mean しかし.

>>826
If you had children they would surely be harlequin babies.

However seems to be close to しかしながら while "but" corresponds to
しかし。　
That's my understanding.

>>826
You wanna have baby?
I don't get it.

>>827
>>829
i donno. What's the difference between しかし and しかしながら anyway.
If that has something to do with but vs. however, it's not like you need Japanese when speaking English.

>>827
>>829
Uh oh, I learned が = but and けれども = however. Is しかし/しかしながら more colloquial?

しかしながら sounds more polite and contains some nuance, concession
and contrast?
It's hard to explain logically. But if you are japanese, you
should feel it.

>>808
All you have to do is to set 2ch's English board as your homepage.
Simple as that.

>>807
Did you send your own photo to her in return?
The boy in the photo put on /g/ the other day is you?

She's not a girl, I think. She's someone who tried trolled you there.
The chance of her being a girl is as thin as that of me becoming a Hollywood movie star
or becoming a geophysicist.

彼はアメリカ白人だが、ちんこが小さい。
彼はアメリカ白人だ。しかし、ちんこが小さい。
彼はアメリカ白人だ。しかしながら、ちんこが小さい。
Almost the same meaning. The first sentence is the most natural.

>>832
From japanese English dictionary.
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=%A4%B7%A4%AB%A4%B7&kind=je&mode=0&type=stickflets-east
しかし　然し
but; however; nevertheless; still; and yet.

English-Japanese dictionary
however
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=however&kind=ej&mode=0&type=stickflets-east
how・ev・er

━━ ad. どんな…でも; ((接続詞的)) どのように…しても; 一体全体どうやって (However did you do it?).
━━ conj. しかしながら.

but
http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=but&kind=ej&mode=0&type=stickflets-east
━━ conj. しかし, けれども; ((not, neverなどと共に)) …（ではなく）て; …するのでなければ （unless）; …しないほど （but that, that … not）; …を除いては, …のほかは.

>>835
lol, great example sentences.

彼はアメリカ白人なのに、ちんこが小さい。
彼はアメリカ白人のくせに、ちんこが小さい.

>>834
i did send it to her

>>832
Japanese doesn't work like that. The differences between those but-ish words have more to do with language registers.

Have you heard of です/ます style or だ/である style?
We change conjugations or inflections (I don't know which is correct) depending on the register you're speaking in, and style heavily influences your word choice.

English also has registers; you don't say, "But I don't think so." in an academic paper. Maybe you say something like, "It does not seem, however, (insert your academic adversary's theory)"

Certainly, が = but kind of formulae are conventional, but they will get you nowhere.
The way registers work differs from language to language, and but vs. however and が vs. けれど are related to formality and the like.

As another anon often says, don't think. Feel it. And I mean it.

Rather
しかし　and しかしながら sounds more formal and literary.
しかしながら sounds more formal than しかし.
We use in the conversations too though.
しかしながら sounds pretty formal and rigid. しかしながら suits
writings and speech.

I think （だ）けど and でも　are the most colloquial words.
These are informal and not recommended for English learners.
But we hear these the most in the colloquial conversations.

>>840
Are you scholar or something?

>>841
>not recommended for English learners.

It's really awkward to hear someone always say しかし or しかしながら.

>>842
I don't think a scholar would say "i don't know which is correct."

I find Japanese to be complicated and elaborate language after teaching
Japanese.
It is not that more complicated means more advanced.
Rather vice-versa?

>>845
Which language do you think is simpler than Japanese then? I can't think of any.
Maybe natural languages are all equally complicated, but in different ways.

Finnish is easier than Japanese. It is easiest language in world.

>>847
Prove it.

Perkele Suomi!

I cannot post and I sadly do not understand the error message, it is:
ＥＲＲＯＲ：長すぎる行があります！

Could somebody help me?

米人 gave her husband a chrismas present of sexy dynamite.

I think you have to shift your focus from language to culture, because that is where true complexity is introduced.

Imagine two groups of people with completly different languages, (a) one with a very complex culture (religion etc)
and another (b) with a more philistine* one. If the less cultured group (b) would decide to abondon their mother tongue
in favour of the other group's language (a), it would be much easier than the cultured group (a) giving up their language.
This is because words represent either a real item or something which is part of a culture or connect either of these two
in some way. If there is less culture to represent, less words are required.
If the more cultured group (a) was to convert to the other's (b) language, they would have a very hard time to express
themselves proberly (certainly it would still work! You can say everything you want in binary, it just takes forever to
do by hand.)

Now, in the real world, there are only cultures of the (a)-type but consdering that there is no single direction of
cultural-development, the diffuclties still exist.

It should be evident that there cannot exist an universaly "easiest" language to learn, because people simply are
not of the same cultural background (that's also why "continental" europeans have such an easy time picking up English).


* I just realised that most probably, the world "philistine" has no meaning in japan, because you lack the christian background. It's an euphanism used for people that do not understand "high" culture like contemporary arts.

My joke (though truth) may not come across well.
In japan, sexy dynamite means such things.
http://images.google.co.jp/images?sourceid=navclient&hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLG_ja___JP225&q=%E3%82%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

There seems to be a brand name called sexydynamite. I don't know
what nuance "sexy dynamite" originally brings.

>>852
I understand what you mean and agree with most of your theory.
But I'd like to say language and culture are indivisible per se.
I think language is part of culture, and it represents their way of thinking.
You categorize things according to the language(s) you speak, and see the world through the window of the language(s).

It is essentially impossible to perfectly express yourself in a foreign language because you're trying to draw an angular figure by circles.
Of course, if the "shape" of words and grammar rules of your mother tongue are similar to that of the target language you're learning,
then you may get a better approximation. Apparently this similarity helps you learn the language.
But an approximation can't be the figure, no matter how similar it is.

That is one of the biggest reasons why I think there is no such thing as faithful translation.
It stands to reason that a "square" language can't describe a "circular" notion properly.

>>846
As far as Variations go. Japanese changes word by word more significantly,
depending on occasions and relationship between speakers.

>>850
That literally means “some of your sentenses are too long to post.” But I guess that in fact means your whole sentences are so large that you can't post.

>>850
Are you new here?
Please introduce yourself.
Where are you from? How did you get to know thins thread?
I'm NEET.

>>854
Well, I'm not too sure about the indivisibility, but I agree with everything else you said.
Languages shape the way we think a lot and you can never truly understand a foreign culture
without speaking their language!

However, there must always be words that mean the exactly same in all cultures - logical
statements (like "A is necessary for B", "A is equal to B") do not require any culture
to be valid and the used words can be translated 1:1 to any language.
However, by using logical statements all you can say is essentially mathematics, and
they do not exactly "say" anything about the world.

Excuse the spelling, it is well past bedttime here. Good night!

>>850
Letters you type in a row is too long.
You should make letters in one raw shorter by punching enter key.
You don't have to make your letters in one raw shorter than the
width of the section you type your message but too long raw makes you
get the error message.

>>858
If your country has a unique thing that can't be found in another country, and your fist language has given a name to the unique thing;
then your first language and the culture can't be divided unless you abandon the word.
No matter how hard you try to describe the unique thing by a foreign language,
your translation inevitably carries slightly different connotations and nuances.

I think your first language gave a name to your country.

Good night.

Merry Christmas 2ch!

http://www.theweepies.com/snowglobe/
(Make sure you shake the globe)

>>851
Sorry to disappoint, but after I spent lots of $$$ on the kids and various
relatives, there wasn't much left over to spend on my husband!! He'll have to
make do with his new plants, some candy and a set of StarWars DVDs.

>>861
it is alittle too soon ^^

>>862
Wait a minute...it isn't Thursday?
Just kidding, I know it's Tuesday.

Hello 米人,
your cyber son is suffering from an severe obsession now.
He has follen love to a Japanese girl, who is a bit hentai.

>>864
Yes, well, that banana conversation...words fail me.
Somehow, this doesn't seem like a "Densha Otoko"-type love story,
but I could be wrong.
All I can hope is that he comes to his senses eventually.

>>864
i think he is correct!

>>866
That's what worries me.

Good night all!

Good night !

>>867
night cyber mom!

anyway
my shitty life ended

nothing is going to be wrist slitting anymore

In Japan, a banana implies a dick in a certain situation, because its
appearance is similar to that.
The same thing can be recognized in the U.S.?

>>870
it is not as common

and i knew something had to be up with those girls riding Bananas
O_O

I don't wanna see it because
Japan is now holiday afternoon 〜

Any single man wish Christmas could be discontinued...
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1229410827

What “gonna be” stands for ?

>>874
"going to be" = "gonna be"

thanks

>>874
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfqSWe8eVE

>>877
The man singing with thick glasses is you.

>>877
Oh, thanks, this is really great song...
I really like this. Really good.

I think listning music too much deteriorates one's language ability.
The portion of the brain working when listning to music completely differs from one when using language, I guess.

Sanda city is awesome.

>>881
what is sanda city?

>>882
A suburban beautiful city. Yes.

As someone here said, your name change gives me a kind of impression
when Pikachu evolved to Raichu.

FUCK gamestop

I think Mr Obama would be a white man rather than a black guy
because he came out from a birth canal of a white woman.

Maybe this cute voice shakes your brain.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=8SqZZsCD7Ec

>>534
"Life's hard enough as it is. You don't wanna cry any more."

Haha! I'm gonna love his nuts!

I've been gone for a couple days. Hey all. Took a while to catch up, but I read everything.

>>470 I don't have any chickens, but I'm trained to combat ninja.
You'd better hope you manage to grab one of my dozen swords before I do.
And it would be good for your if you can determine which are high-quality, and which are just for show.

>>480 It's well established that I'm incredibly awesome.

>>824
>But I think you can put a semicolon whenever you want to; 99% of readers don't know how to use it and you always look smarter.
That should have been a hyphen.

>>853
I choose result #4
http://hhr.way-nifty.com/hhr/images/2007/10/28/kaz02alfaromeo20.jpg
I'd take the girl or the car. Both are sexy, just in different ways.

Anybody like oreskaband?
I think they're pretty amusing. I can't find much music though.
On the off chance anybody here is into Japanese ska music, can you point me in the direction of some other bands?

I'm looking to expand my collection in general, actually. What kind of music do you all like? Care to give me some recommendations?
I like rock, mostly.

>>889
Oh jook came back!
good!

>>891
Aww, didja miss me? It's good to be back.

I'm roaming around Sanda city now. Terribly nice place. If ynu detect me here, please shout out “ Hey, son of bitch” loudly. Sir.

>>889
#4? It's too bad your gf looks like this.
http://www.aitortxu.com/blog/media/cosfail06.jpg

>>890
I'm not into ska music but they are famous ska band.
TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=vpGMHYj6S40&feature=related
I watched some music video on Youtube and seems like they feature
singers.

My favorite music? Definately this is my most favorite and イギリス人's too.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=-8XSGqO7vwk&feature=PlayList&p=036BDEE3AA20E82C&playnext=1&index=7

>>894
Well, that's better than your girlfriend, right? I spotted a picture of her too.
http://i40.tinypic.com/25fnj2q.jpg

Nice band. That song seems heavy on keys and light on horns though.
I think horns are what make ska music unique.
These guys are talented, but they seem more serious than oreskaband. There's some people who just want to have fun.
At least, in the songs I have, they are really full of energy, and they joke around during the breaks in the lyrics sometimes.

I'm not into rap, really. Also, that guy looks totally ridiculous.

>>890
They happens to have English version if their website.
http://www.tokyoska.net/e/news/index.html

Maybe Ego-Wrappin's music has a taste of ska
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=1k5JMnkfWUE&feature=related
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=pSsRlv6PlBc&feature=related

Their Myspace http://www.myspace.com/egowrappin

>>896
Aww, how depressing. The Japanese version of the webpage is so much more exciting.
Better layout, and has the background music.
Thanks though.

I'd say Eg-Wrappin' is jazz.
Those are nice songs though. I really like the one from the first link. The second is a bit odd.
The myspace page has more good tracks though. Thanks.
I think I'll try to get some of their music.

>>849
huoh

>>895
That's not my girlfriend. Mine is my left hand with manicured nails. :p

Seems like these two ska bands are popular, too.
I think they are on more lighte tone than TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA

DOMINO88
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=570j4xfVZRQ
POTSHOT
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ednTp0Dr0&feature=related

NORIAKI IS REAL by the way.

>>897
Yeah, when a Japanese musician's website has both Japanese and English version, in most cases
Japanese version is rich in contents. That can't be helped because most of their fans are Japanese.

>I'd say Eg-Wrappin' is jazz.

Ah, come to think of it, you're right.
And actually their song on the first link is their biggest hit if I'm not wrong.