Page 1 of 2
Neko?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 18:14 -0700
by wakizashi
Hi! It's wakizashi! I have a question. Does neko mean cat in japanese? I've always wanted to know that. 'Cuz there's the neko ninja clan with Chizu and everyone, but I must find that out!!! Pllleeeeaaaaassssssseeeee tell me if anyone knows! It is my quest! Ok, see you all next time! Bye!
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 18:48 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
yes
Food, I mean cats. Yes, Cats. Definitly cats. Not food.
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 20:22 -0700
by hanshoukage
Also, it is the root of the word Yamaneko meaning lynx or wildcat.
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 20:31 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
knowledge is power!
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:42 -0700
by takematsu
Also it is the root of the word Yamaneko meaning lynx or wildcat.
Aaaahhhhh! "Mountain Cat". Man, I love it when a language makes sense. It almosy makes up for "Mountain Whale" (venison, back when Japan was seriously vegetarian).
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 20:17 -0700
by Groo_thewanderer
mountain whale? venison? sounds like eggnog in french, a.k.a. chicken milk
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 13:13 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
whoa, funny stuff, but not as funny as peter griffin presents the king and I...
I am A.N.N.A. android ninja nuclear atomaton, im a robot ninja sent from the planet england to free this realm from your tyrannical tyranny..WE MUST KUNG FU FIGHT!!....2 hours later...anna rules. cause i kicked all the bad guys in there jewels. anna won. with my super gamma ray atomic gun. no one could defeat me so you can all just freakin eat me. and he blew all of us away!. im the worlds greatest ninja. just as surely as pollack was CENSORED.
everyone here who havnt heard of family guy, MUST WATCH NOW.
The truth is, OH GOD! SHTJYJESDTEYIETJQWDEALQKQ
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:02 -0700
by hanshoukage
Maybe we should use this thread to tell people the meaning of japanese words. I don't know I have a lot of free time on my hands. And feet. And eerywhere else. How can you have time on a part of your body? It's an abstract concept. I like cats.
Wow I have amazing paragraph structure.
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:11 -0700
by Lynx
How about the four elements? Earth, fire, water and wind. And life & death.
Is there any emoticon that doesn't look deranged?
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:51 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
or we could just make a new thread, like the one im going to make in five minutes.
How about the four elements? Earth, fire, water and wind. And life & death.
like the five of zen buddism.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:33 -0700
by takematsu
Pretty sure the element names are the same as the weekdays (except Sun-day and Moon-day). Hope your browser supports Kanji!
火 "Ka"- fire.
水 "Sui" or "Mizu" - water
木 "Moku", "Boku" - wood
金 "Kin" - metal
土 "Do" - Earth (not to be confused with 士 "shi", as in bushido)
Life & death, eh? Oddly enough, that's in the dictionary:
死生 "Shisei" - Life and death, sez the dictionary, but in reverse order. 死 by the way, is one of the eight zillion things pronounced "shi", including 四 four, 刺 calling card, 市 city, 侈 pride, and 止 stop-- that's a whole lot of use for an inauspicious syllable. "I'll meet you at the bus-dead, at death o'clock! Here, I'll write it on the back of this death so you don't forget."
yes, yes, alternative pronunciations, context, yes, I know. Havin' fun, here.
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 14:14 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
no, im talkin the five of zen buddism, not the five general ones
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 17:30 -0700
by Indiana Usagi
Hehehe...good luck finding out.
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:29 -0700
by takematsu
im talkin the five of zen buddism
Could you be more... specific?
I can't think of any buddhist-specific elements. Samsara? Dhamma? Noble truths? Precepts? What'cha looking for?
(small applause for anyone identifying the movie reference in the initial line)
Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 13:02 -0700
by miyamoto musashi
Ground, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void