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1367736 No.1367736 [Reply] [Original]

Is it true that they don't have curse words in Japanese?

>> No.1367744

You must be pretty proud of yourself.

>> No.1367750

BAKA. KUSO!

>> No.1367745

Who is that king among men?

>> No.1367753

>>1367744
But all I did today was fap.

>> No.1367762

I thought that the summer fags would leave when school started. Why is the cancer getting worse?

>> No.1367757

Baka gaijin is as bad as it gets.

>> No.1367775

>>1367762
Don't let this distract you from your precious fig/yukkuri threads.

>> No.1367783

>>1367762
What exactly are you referring to? This thread in general?

>> No.1369230

Honestly?

They do. They have all the same words we do. Kuso= Shit (as an exclamation). However, they are seen more as "rough" than as unmentionable. You can say just about everything on TV except "Mangko" (not sure of the spelling), which is a word for "cunt".

>> No.1369237

>>1369230
You can't say chinOO either.

>> No.1369245
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1369245

>naked fat guy

>> No.1369296

>>1367736
I'm impressed. That's one incredibly accurate cosplay of the American Dream.

>> No.1369300

>>1367736

try mirroring that image in photoshop, what you see is beyond description

>> No.1369301

>>1369237
You can get away with variants, but it's rare.

>> No.1369313

I hear KUSO in anime all the time

The only part that confuses me is how it's translated as pretty much any curse word, depending on the situation.

>> No.1369326

the thing is, there aren't really aren't any slang words in japanese that translates to fuck making the translations hard.

>> No.1369340

An amazing amount of faggots know very little about Japan. Japanese does have obscenities, they're just very different from swearing in English. The words year hear in anime aren't obscene, they're just rough language. Japanese does have words considered very obscene, however, you're obviously not going to hear it on television. However, you have to think of vulgarities in the context of the language; there are no words lie the ubiquitous "fuck" in Japanese that could offend someone on their own, but there are quite a few words for various groups of people that are considered offensive slurs. For example, the historical terms for Buraku people, like "eta", meaning "great filth" or "himin", meaning "non-person" are considered extremely offensive today.

>> No.1369339

>>1369313
Are the u and o silent or something?

I hear some sort of "ksss" sound in anime all the time but I didn't know it was actually a word. Those silly nips and their crappy language....

>> No.1369351

>>1369230
>Mangko
>Mang
Fucking Mexicans. It's MAN.
Also lol ebichu.

>>1369313
It means feces literally.

>>1367736
They do, but they have levels of profaneness like their language has levels of formality.

Thins like kuso and baka aren't really any more serious than damn, but then you can add things to make them more intense like たれ and get bakatare/kusotare.

There's also a number of words that wouldn't make sense in English that are used as insults, and just the general insults any language has. The only things you can't say are dick and vag, so it's more that profane words aren't as SERIOUS BUSINESS in Japan, as in some other places.

>> No.1369353

>>1369340
yeah but buraku is like calling a black guy a nigger, you don't say it to em but people say it all the time on webs and things. Besides, it's not obscenity anyway if it's true where in this case, both is a known true fact.

>> No.1369356

Question to the informal: what's "bakayaro" mean?

>> No.1369368

>>1369356
bastard

>> No.1369374

>>1369356
It's just a rough way of saying "idiot". Sort of like "dumbass", but it wouldn't really be considering swearing. Just because it isn't swearing doesn't mean it's something one would say to their elders or superiors, though.

>> No.1369377

>>1369356
Same as baka but with yarou (means something like "punk") on it.

Mopre intense way of saying idiot, like dumbass.

>> No.1369379

>>1369313
That's kind of how it works. It only means "shit", but they use it pretty liberally.

>>1369339
Consonant + u always ends up being cut short in Japanese; some more than others, of course.

>> No.1369382

I lol at japs when they claim their language is above cursing.

>> No.1369400

>>1369382
When did a Japanese ever claim that? And they don't fucking use profanity in the middle of their damn sentances like French bastards like to do.

>> No.1369413

America tends to be the most sensitive regarding swearing, anyway. In England, it's not uncommon to heard words like "tits," "shit," or even "fuck" on TV. Hell, even in America, cable channels are legally allowed to air vulgarities, but they tend to censor them to appease the audience. Chalk it up to more of our Puritan founding, I suppose.

>> No.1369419

>>1369413
>In England, it's not uncommon to heard words like "tits," "shit," or even "fuck" on TV

That's because in England those aren't as bad as "bollocks".

>> No.1369421

>>1369413
>Hell, even in America, cable channels are legally allowed to air vulgarities, but they tend to censor them to appease the sponsors.
Fixed.

Even with cable, the audience isn't really keeping the channel alive. The corporations are the ones that want to seem family friendly.

>> No.1369428

>>1369419
lol England, where blood is a curse word. Oops I cut myself and got my finger all [expletive deleted]

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