Wapanese Help

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:20 am

I need to know how to say:

"Hello. How are you?"

In extreme Otaku/Wapanese. Not Nipponese, but Otaku fan-speak, hopefully with culturally appropriate grammar. And yes, I am aware of how weird a request this is.

-Username17

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:34 am

Can't help you specifically.

However, it is recommended to refer to yourself with "ore" and end your sentences with "ossu!" or "daio" or "-iao". Spit out a "kuso" or "baka" every now and then. You'll sound some combination of tough, young, and crude, which at least passes for cool in America/The West, which is what counts.
Or, well, just wapanese.

Here's something less ridiculous: http://www.everything2.com/e2node/Japan ... %2520anime
http://www.everything2.com/e2node/Japan ... %2520lines
They look valid.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:29 am

Hmm. Well, Konnichiwa is "good afternoon", however that'd be the one Wapanese would use for any form of "Hello" as they couldn't be bothered learning Konbanwa, Ohaiyou and any others out there.

Or you could say "Herro", as it seems as though the Wapanese thing these days is to speak English with a Japanese accent.

As for "How are you?", hmm.

I don't even know the Japanese for it. The best I can remember from grade 8 is "Anata wa* genki desuka?" ("Are you feeling well?")

*Feel free to leave the w off the wa. I think that one might be something usually said by girls, thus coming across (from a male) as "ror, he doesn't know what he's saying."

Bonus points for pronouncing the silent "u" in "desu".

So "Konnichiwa~! Anata a genki desuuka?" is probably the best I can come up with.

Anyway, enquiring minds must know: why do you wish to know this?

koz · Post by **koz** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:41 am

Being in Japan currently, Koumei, leaving the 'w' off 'wa' is not girly - leaving the 'w' off 'watashi' (I or me) is girly. The former is speech-impaired.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:33 pm

Ah, (w)atashi, that's the female-oriented word!

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:41 pm

Shame it has to be the fan-speak.

Otherwise, I'd ask the Japanese student in my Physics class about it tomorrow.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:33 pm

Off topic, but if anyone knows how to say "It won't taste like grape when it's up your butt" in latin, that would be awesome.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:14 pm

"Is mos non sapor amo grape ut is est sursum vestri butt"

Got it off an online translator...it apparently couldn't translate "grape" or "butt."

Here's the website, if you care

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:08 pm

Like I said, use "ore wa" not "watashi". You could start with a loud "Ohayou! Ore wa Gaijin!"

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:29 pm

Nobody here knows a full on otaku?

koz · Post by **koz** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:21 pm

I know many full-on otaku. It just so happens that they generally speak decent Japanese, or none at all.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:09 am

I only know one person I'd actually apply the insult otaku to, and he tends to either speak English or use full Japanese sentences that are presumably correct. And he lives a very large distance away, as do the few Waps I know.

Honestly, I stopped being Wapanese before it was fashionable to be Wapanese. Same with being Emo, actually. A right shame, because if my timing (see: age) was better, I could have had a lot of sex.

Anyway, as a result, I don't really know many people who are Wapanese, on the grounds that I find them a bit stupid and irritating (though in a harmless way, like a child). And basically everyone I know lives in another state.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:27 pm

Koumei wrote:Honestly, I stopped being Wapanese before it was fashionable to be Wapanese. Same with being Emo, actually. A right shame, because if my timing (see: age) was better, I could have had a lot of sex.

There was a "right" time to be Emo?

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:40 pm

Being emo will get you a lot of sex.

The downside is that it's with other emos.

If not having sex means I don't have to dress up like I got caught up in a gay explosion at the gay factory where they produce the world's supply of gay, then I'm calling it a bargain.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:48 am

Koumei wrote:I only know one person I'd actually apply the insult otaku to, and he tends to either speak English or use full Japanese sentences that are presumably correct. And he lives a very large distance away, as do the few Waps I know.

Honestly, I stopped being Wapanese before it was fashionable to be Wapanese. Same with being Emo, actually. A right shame, because if my timing (see: age) was better, I could have had a lot of sex.

Anyway, as a result, I don't really know many people who are Wapanese, on the grounds that I find them a bit stupid and irritating (though in a harmless way, like a child). And basically everyone I know lives in another state.

koumei, if I understand correctly, you're female, right? If this is true, you could be having a lot of sex anyway, just by your gender. Although it might require lowering your standards to insulting levels... of course so would getting sex as an emo or otaku....

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:49 am

I was under the impression that Koumei liked the ladies, which means she has to deal with all the bullshit men have to, so being a woman wouldn't automatically make it easier for her to have sex.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:57 am

good point. It also brings in the fact that the target audience isn't blue...

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:09 am

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:I was under the impression that Koumei liked the ladies, which means she has to deal with all the bullshit men have to, so being a woman wouldn't automatically make it easier for her to have sex.

Correct, and totally agreed.
I have some female friends that have attested to the fact that lesbians have it rough, yet no more than hetero men.
As a hetero male, I can also attest to the fact that lesbians are a great for learning what women want. Many smoke breaks and after-class discussions in an art major have led to great understanding of the opposite sex.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:13 am

I'm under the impression that anyone who says they understand women knows nothing.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:18 am

I've been told by my girlfriend that all women want is for men to know what they want befre they themselves know. so basically clairvoyancy.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:34 am

I choose not to believe that, because that makes me want to slap every woman I see.

Since that would likely result in some jailtime, I'm going to not believe that.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:36 am

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:I choose not to believe that, because that makes me want to slap every woman I see.

Since that would likely result in some jailtime, I'm going to not believe that.

I like your logic.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:48 am

I can believe it. But, then, I know--and am around--some weird women.

My impulse to slap faces has been much reduced by the death of my expectation that people be rational.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:00 am

Myself, I have to try really hard not to smack stupid people.

Like the Late George Carlin said: think of how stupid the average person is. Then think about the fact that half of everyone is stupider than that.

Or something of that nature.