The "hentai" thread (237)

1 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-07-21 08:34 ID:hYd956KZ [Del]

Since this was being discussed in another thread where it was totally off-topic, I think it's time for it to have its own thread. Here we discuss the word "hentai" (and "ecchi"), and the difference in meaning between the original Japanese words and the English usage of them.

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105 Name: Sling 2005-09-30 13:28 ID:SV+BA61V [Del]

It seems that no one wants to branch out and create 'The "lolikon" thread' to solve the problem once and for all. "No not me noooooo... You go first!" :)

106 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-01 00:16 ID:Heaven [Del]

"lolikon" thread is now set up (not by me) here: http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1128137793/

107 Name: Cosmo Gunny 2005-10-07 14:02 ID:M3VOizc9 [Del]

I feel that I have learned something today, but not for the life of me can I enunciate it.

108 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-07 14:25 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>107
The internet is for hen porn!

109 Name: Sling 2005-10-07 18:55 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>107
99.1% of the Japanese ero production is deviant hentai anyway, but on iichan that word is the new nigger word! You'll get harassed and bullied on every single board for saying it! :)

110 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-08 00:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>109 is DQN

111 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-08 06:02 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>109

No matter how deviant it is, you never use the word "hentai" when talking about porn in Japanese.

112 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-08 16:50 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>109
GJ on equaling the use of a racist term for which the offense has nothing to do with "correctness" with a linguistical incorrect term for which the offense only has to do with its incorrectness.
Also, it's "n-word", you intellectualy shriveled up raisin!

113 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-08 18:01 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>112

The words "the" and "word" are the MIND PILLOWS that make pointy and scary words, such as the "fuck" word, soft and acceptable!

114 Name: Sling 2005-10-08 19:13 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>112
x intellectualy
o intellectually

115 Name: Sling 2005-10-08 19:41 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>111 Then put up a word filter to replace "hentai" by porn/ero/deviant/whatever on all boards. I'm starting to get a little tired to see every single newcomer being bullied because he said the h-word. Every other site use the word hentai freely, it's only on iichan that the poor guy gets rammed inside out for blurting it out. This site is made for the users, and those heavy-handed tactics are scaring and scarring them away from the shop.

116 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-08 23:30 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>115
oh noes, newbies are being told they are wrong! they will cry and flee the site, however shall we make it without them?

ps: wordfilters are dumb.

117 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-09 02:37 ID:4fEyjbZW [Del]

118 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-09 02:45 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>117
I don't understand what that article is supposed to prove.
I didn't read all of it, I just understand it talks about western webcomics and western fanartists.

119 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-09 05:11 ID:Gxdk+Eus [Del]

Ok being a fan of Japanese animation for oh god, 25years? We never referred to porn anime as hentai alone. hentai as was said earlier was a thing we would mimic of the girls in anime as a joke. Or in my case piss my grandparents off to no end.
Ero from what family in Japan has said is a borrowed word for erotica. Hence in Chobits Erosito or erotica site. I probably would translate it as such, not the porn site or hentai site that I had seen on fansubs. As for its use in English all my sighing over it will aught for naught. Since no matter the amount of whining about it will change the course of the usage once its started. Americans are very faddish. And will pick up any thing that is a "keyword" Take "High Definition" I see adds selling fucking contact lenses spouting HD vision. Or the ever popular "my bad" Slang from the rapper community taken into a proper phrase and even applied to translation of slang in other languages. To me >>54 closed this argument. It is the way we "old-timers" used the words, if we used them at all. And hentai is suppose to be used as a description not a noun or name for something. ( I think this is what >>54 meant in his/her first line)

The anime and cartoon thing can be debated till the end of ends. I have seen Japanese refer to American cartoons as well of all things cartoons. . . Here in the US early on we referred to Japanese animation as anime because the topics stories etc did not fit with American ideals for cartoons. Hell Heavy Metal is rarely referred to as a "cartoon" But as animation. This use even referred to euro animation. Often this material was not of a drooling sticky child content. It seems America has the prize for this stigmata of animation is for fuzz nuts only.
It does still sting to hear anime referred to as cartoons, but I don't go ape shit all over for it because well to most Americans it IS a cartoon. At least until they realize what the stories contain.

I can't say you younger fans are wrong, just a different generation than I am, Granted I was watching "anime" before I was even attending the first grade. So some of you "technically" are my generation >_<
Of constant bother to me is this new usage of JAP, whence people say nigger its all doom and gloom but I see jap used in hateful ways so often on English bbs or elsewhere. Someone brings up a comment about its derogatory history and use they claim its short for Japanese and that they are to lazy to type it out Proper use is JP or JPN but this current use of .uk .de .jp etc on the net JAP has become common. I mention this because I have seen plenty of posts on this bbs or related bbs as well as others where Japanese ask for the user to stop with its use and flames rise. I mean who are you to argue with the person whom that derogatory word was used against?? its like telling a Korean Gook isn't derogatory. And as what was said earlier I do not get why those so devoted to a medium and culture yet are still so hateful towards them. I often see toshiaki on futaba and elsewhere making "fucking jap" or "damn jap" and even DIE JAP post when mimicking Americans. To me this is harsh because they are getting the wrong impression. As well this relates to the uses of hentai ecchi etc. It is funny how misunderstandings cause such grief or weird outcomes.

I don't mean to bring up racism but its just a topic to open against in the fact we butcher old meanings in our own language or bring across the wrong impression to others. This as well makes me wonder as to the REAL reason futaba has non .jp ip banned from posting. I do not intend to start arguments and will ignore any that will IE I wont respond. nut its to just bring up subject material and a few ideas/opinions.

Oh and I know orphan meant a broken paragraph. I is I guess why we have thesaurus.

120 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-09 06:06 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>119

Please try to write coherently if you're making an argument. I have no idea what you're going on about most of the time. What I did manage to understand I'll answer:

> Hence in Chobits Erosito or erotica site. I probably would translate it as such, not the porn site or hentai site that I had seen on fansubs.

No, "ero" means means almost exactly the same as "porn". The translation "porn site" is entirely correct.

> To me >>54 closed this argument. It is the way we "old-timers" used the words, if we used them at all. And hentai is suppose to be used as a description not a noun or name for something. ( I think this is what >>54 meant in his/her first line)

You seem to be confused about one thing. This isn't a discussion about how you "old-timers" use words. This is a discussion about how the japanese use the words. >>54 is japanese. He's upset that westerners use the word "hentai" in such a weird way. Read the articles linked at the top of the thread, and you'll find a lot more comments by japanese speakers about how silly the western usage of the word "hentai" is.

121 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-09 06:16 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>115

I don't think I've seen anyone bullied for that, not by image board standards. People get corrected, but that's hardly bullying.

Also, word filters are insulting.

122 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-09 11:18 ID:Heaven [Del]

>You seem to be confused about one thing. This isn't a discussion about how you "old-timers" use words. This is a discussion about how the japanese use the words. >>54 is japanese. He's upset that westerners use the word "hentai" in such a weird way. Read the articles linked at the top of the thread, and you'll find a lot more comments by japanese speakers about how silly the western usage of the word "hentai" is.

His point was though, that they "old-timers" used it as a description, closer to the Japanese meaning, and that the younger genration of non-Japanese anime watchers started calling things that as a name.

...Or at least that's what I got from it.

Personally though, I started calling ero-stuff "Hentai" since that's what I thought it was called. That's what everyone else called it, and thus for Americans, that isi what it was called.

I wasn't studying Japnese culture, and didn't even know much about Japan. So, you really can't blame people like us, the people who don't go and research everything themselves if they've heard 1000 other people confirm it.

The way I see things like "hentai" or "otaku" or various other American adopted Japanese phrase is, that's exactly what it is. An "American adopted Japanese phrase." Although people who want to learn more about Japan/plan to visit Japan should know the true meanings, for people who don't, it doesn't really matter.

And Japanese is the last language people should complain about Non-Japanese bastardizing. I mean... "Free Size" ? and WTF is Milky Hat?

123 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-09 11:48 ID:PyI8jZKf [Del]

> And Japanese is the last language people should complain about Non-Japanese bastardizing.

I don't feel like refuting all of your statements right now, but this one is the most ridiculous one and has been adressed multiple times before: You cannot justify your own incorrect usage of someone else's language with that language's incorrect usage of your own language. Not that you could even say that the Japanese who would complain about your incorrect usage are the same who supposedly "bastardized" your language, nor that it's only the Japanese who (would) complain about that - it's also people like me (neither Japanese nor English nor American, but I don't like intercultural ignorance and I don't care for "but they started it first" kindergarten arguments)

124 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 2005-10-10 01:44 ID:Heaven [Del]

>And Japanese is the last language people should complain about Non-Japanese bastardizing. I mean... "Free Size" ? and WTF is Milky Hat?

QFT.

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126 Name: ryuubu 2005-10-11 04:09 ID:L8LN3GNm [Del]

English gives false meanings to a lot of words. It is known quite widely now; it's evolution of language.

127 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-11 06:32 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>126
Ever heard of "regression"?

128 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 2005-10-11 08:50 ID:Heaven [Del]

Yes, it is a valid argument, because it's hypocritical for someone who is clearly not worried about their misuse of my language to get all in a huff over my misuse of theirs. There's also a huge discrepancy in the level of "bastardization" going on; "hentai" is a relatively rare word in English compared to how often Japanese use "mansion" for an apartment building, say "(something) getto!," or even go to a "viking" to have a buffet meal. And we will never come out with a cartoon about crossdressing and call it "Watashi Watashi Watashi no! Ichigo Tamago."

So as a professional linguist (of sorts), I declare this whole discussion stupid in the first place.

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130 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-11 09:16 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>128

> Yes, it is a valid argument, because it's hypocritical for someone who is clearly not worried about their misuse of my language to get all in a huff over my misuse of theirs.

You are massively confusing issues here:

  1. It is not the Japanese who are majorly complaining here.
  2. There is no way for you to verify if the Japanese who do complain are the same who make the errors themselves.
  3. None of the issues are reven remotely touching the objective reasoning that the specific use of the specific word "hentai" in the English context is incorrect.
> So as a professional linguist (of sorts)

I lolled

131 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-11 23:22 ID:Heaven [Del]

HENTAI! KAWAII! BUKKAKE!
http://img424.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hkb3ga.png

PS: imageshack seems to automatically disable viewing of pictures that have "hentai" or "bukkake" in their name.

132 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 2005-10-12 06:40 ID:gIEbR0oz [Del]

>It is not the Japanese who are majorly complaining here.

You're right; it seems to be otaku who are complaining because a few Japanese are complaining, as translated in >>4. And they must be right and correct because they are Japanese.

>There is no way for you to verify if the Japanese who do complain are the same who make the errors themselves.

At the level that my above examples are seemingly embedded into the Japanese language, I'm pretty sure that would be the case. Regardless.

>None of the issues are reven remotely touching the objective reasoning that the specific use of the specific word "hentai" in the English context is incorrect.

No, but it is touching the fact that only wankers really care about it.

133 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-12 06:45 ID:Heaven [Del]

> You're right; it seems to be otaku who are complaining because a few Japanese are complaining, as translated in >>4. And they must be right and correct because they are Japanese.

Your anti-wapanese sentiment is silly.

> No, but it is touching the fact that only wankers really care about it.

Okay, then please stop posting in this thread, wanker.

134 Name: Sling 2005-10-12 14:42 ID:Heaven [Del]

Member of the Anti-Hentai club: Dear Japanese, don't you think that from a grammmalological viewpoint, we the Westerners are so silly to use the word "hentai" in such a risible fashion?
Toshiaki: I don't care how it's called, just post the pictures!

:)

135 Name: anon!21anon4H3U 2005-10-12 19:55 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>134 gets it!

136 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-13 02:38 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>135 is patting >>134 on the back.

137 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-13 04:46 ID:Heaven [Del]

Member of the Anti-Anti-Hentai club: Dear professional linguist, I am lazy and don't want to change my behaviour, despite how incorrect it may be.
Professional linguist (of sorts): That's okay, language evolves all the time. It's a living thing, mang! Logic has nothing on this beast! And just like women, it only exists to promote your sloth!

138 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 02:39 ID:enpoIZ0G [Del]

sometimes I look at some of the things said and really wonder about the school system these days. but what can I say when literacy rates are so so low.

I will agrea with the evolution of language and the borowing of language. english after all is made up of 7. as for the use of hentai beeing ok or not, well, that has changed over time too. it was mentiond before how it wasn't used the same way it is now several years ago. I would say this is because moest people in the past knew, watched, and were intrested in anime and manga because they were allready surddying japanese and the culture, that is at least my understanding. or, were othwise part of an asian heritage, or living on the pasific coast. yes hentai is the wrong usage. will the usage be fixed when using it in english context? no. not unless you can get the countless milions to change.

but there are lots of missuesd words. anime beeing short for animation was before mentiond. in a sence I guess its true. though anime is aslo just animation in french I beleiv. in english it is used to mean japanese animation in order to diferentiate it from american or european animation. but does anyone remember the term japanamation? people tried to coin that, it faild.

manga, comic, does it matter? I mean Ive had my head bitten off practicly for calling a 'graphic novel' a comic, and no I don't mean manga. I remember when manga wasn't used, it was just graphic novels but then there was a desire to make it difrent then the american comics. I think some of that was due to the fact in the begining it was doing well among girls who were a verry low seller for american comics. so they removed it as much as posible. I wonder if manwa will now be used more so its not confused with manga? 'god forbid japanese comics and korean comics get mixed up!'

other words misued from english basterdasation, yaoi and yuri. Ive seen people discribe yaoi as "gay men" now, how wrong is that? since yaoi is an acronym for more or less PWP 'plot what plot?' and if you mention this to the raving fan girl she will rip your head off and eat your heart while it still beats. and if you try to point out why its wrong she has some friend whos japanese and uses it that way. and you find out said friend just finds it easier to adapt for her and not correct her for japanese usage, but to leave it as american usage. but, I won't start a 'the correct and incorrect ways to discribe gay male anime, manga, doujinshi, and games' discution.

in the end, though this sounds like a cop out, we are all wrong. the japanese find us odd and a litte frightening for what we focuse on. we think there odd for using nonsence words on evorything or using words that discribe something else. the words are beeing taken and changed adapted and turnd to slang. this is the key here. slang. slang is never correct. slang has no meaning in a dictionary untill someone finaly goes 'they this words been around for a while in the pop cuture lets put it in' slang can be anything the users want it to be.

an example of turms used horibly wrong. a few years back I remember reading a small artical, or perhaps I heard it on the radio. but the point is this happend. india, the entire country, band one of the austin power movies, the spy who shaged me. now america was like 'whats wrong with them?' and india was like 'how horibly ofensive to have in the title!' wich if you think about it is rather awful. it shows how lack our culture (by wich I mean americans and thoughs greatly infulenced by them) is with stuff like that. I remember hearing on the radio, yes it was one of thoughs boring npr type stations witht the bbc and cbc pbs npr people, this guy talking about the loose way the curent generation speaks, throwing otherwise curs words this way and that. this was a british program by the way. now I try not to stray to far off topic but I hope it all brings my point through, I'm sorry if it doesn't. that as said before language is a flowing breathing living growing thing. now instead of arguing how to use hentai within the enlgish language, why not simply use it in acordance with japanese language only when speaking to japanese. and I would expect them, to eccept what is beeing used on english boreds.

139 Name: test 2005-10-17 04:49 ID:Heaven [Del]

my brain exploded

140 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-17 07:36 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>134

That argument would carry more weight if the Toshiaki weren't constantly making fun of westerners for saying "hentai".

141 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 10:05 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>140
To be fair, making fun of something doesn't neccessarily imply that they really care about the issue.
However, it's already been said that this isn't about us westerners getting together to fulfill an expressed request made to us by some Japanese but rather coming to terms with erroneous usage of language which is most apparent in intercultural dialogue and which both us and the Japanese are aware of.

So far, it seems that the only general stances against a more correct usage of language in these issues are that

  • it's already commonly accepted in the western community. This argument's main base seems to be laziness.
  • language is a living thing, you cannot impose some rigid and ultimately arbitrary laws on it. This argument is funny insofar as it uses language to be expressed, language in well defined rules which, among other things, guarantuee that we may be able to communicate efficiently, correctly and, most of all, in a (more or less) unified way.
  • the Japanese are using English and other western languages in a faulty manner, therefore we are all excused to do so with their language as well. To see how this argument is invalid, consider a simple analogue: Someone burns down your house. Will burning down his house be a reasonable response to this? Or: A member of group X insults you on a regular basis. Is it therefore okay to insult any member of group X?

Feel free to correct and/or amend me here.

142 Name: Sling 2005-10-17 14:29 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>140 Bull.
My understanding is that they are using it jokingly, for example as a reference to anime/manga where the girl is protesting to the guy for showing sexual interest. It's like winking at the audience, and the audience is other Japanese. It is NOT intended at an English speaking audience. They don't care what the English speakers think, the English speakers are not even supposed to speak on 2ch anyway.
At most, English speakers are viewed as partners to practice one's own English. "Hey look, I know a few English words: MOE! Hentai! Otintin! Now, please praise me!" :)

143 Name: Sling 2005-10-17 14:35 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>138 >anime is aslo just animation in french I beleiv
Wrong. Animation in French is Animation.

144 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 14:48 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>138

I would make more of an effort to understand what you said if you used proper spelling.

>>140
I agree with >>141. I mean, you always hear us talking about "those crazy Japanese," but do we really care about their use of our language?

Well, we might find it funny/weird and/or wrong, and if they specifically asked us what we thought about the improper use of a certain phrase we would most likely speak against it, but none of us will probably start an educating campaign against certain words.

145 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 15:30 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>142
You are either confusing Futaba Channel with 2ch or are unaware of 2ch not being an abbreviation for Futaba Channel.

146 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 23:50 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>143

He was right, actually.

Try googling for "anime is French."

147 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-19 05:34 ID:pD9lOXQX [Del]

> My understanding is that they are using it jokingly

That's what "making fun of" means, no?

> I agree with >>141. I mean, you always hear us talking about "those crazy Japanese," but do we really care about their use of our language?

We care to the extent that we like to make fun of them. That's all I said they were doing, too.

That was my whole point. Sling said they "don't care", I returned that they care enough to make fun of it. If they didn't care, they wouldn't joke about it. We care about the Japanese mis-using English to the point that there are websites devoted to it. We don't care about many other languages mis-using English (and many do), so we don't make jokes about those.

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149 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-19 14:04 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>147

>We care to the extent that we like to make fun of them.

mmm... But my point was that I think we may not necessarily care at all.

People link/send me funny pictures and video clips all the time.

I don't really have to care about who/what the subject is about to find the humor in it.

150 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-19 14:15 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>149
The absence of any care at all is apathy.
You don't laugh about things you feel apathetic about.

151 Name: Albright!LC/IWhc3yc 2005-10-19 21:48 ID:gIEbR0oz [Del]

"Anime" is the English word "animation" with the unpronounceable final syllable dropped. The French word is spelled with an accent: "animeL."

152 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 02:12 ID:Heaven [Del]

~ animeL
animé

And "animé" means "animated", not "animation".

153 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 14:55 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>150, is the problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

154 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 16:17 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>153
(Ɂ`)

155 Name: Anonymous : 2006-02-28 10:16 ID:6+sBbMXN [Del]

Language is a convention made by humans, for humans in a closed society. Now that is the same for imported words from every foreign country.

Well, it's due to the universality of language that many misinterpretations are made and makes the situation all .. weird.

Maybe we all need to learn what languages are for.

156 Name: Anonymous : 2006-02-28 10:46 ID:Heaven [Del]

Did you have a point, or do you just like listening to yourself talk?

157 Name: Anonymous : 2006-03-02 03:15 ID:oMuvNXuj [Del]

> Maybe we all need to learn what languages are for.
> listening to yourself talk

158 Name: Anonymous : 2006-03-02 06:48 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>157 is a winner!

159 Name: Anonymous : 2006-03-02 14:29 ID:Heaven [Del]

(ɥͥ) BANZAI!

160 Name: yo ma ma : 2006-04-02 04:47 ID:Heaven [Del]

perhaps that is because it is a tired subject. you either like it or you don't, and no amount of talking about it is going to make any difference. so fap to it, or don't.

161 Name: Tony Montana : 2006-06-05 23:58 ID:eYM5GOWF [Del]

I don't understang whut evrybody iz saying kause i'm cuban and sum words like fo example when people say men i say meng also fo the word hentai i change the from hentai 2 hentiag understang good

162 Name: . : 2006-07-17 23:43 ID:EoUD9YDj [Del]

doesn't hentai also mean "abnormal" or "sick"? ("sick" as in "I got the flu" not "OMGBOOBIES!!!11oneoneLOLKOLOLOL!!")

I was watching a japanese tv show with english subtitles - i swear I heard "hentai" somewhere in there as the dude went to hospital... and another time when it was used for "weird" or "strange"...

163 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2006-07-18 03:42 ID:DK0Q//D+ [Del]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean "sick", in that sense.

164 Name: Anonymous : 2006-07-18 16:58 ID:8O/9kxsV [Del]

>>162
I bet you heard "hen", which just means "strange".

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166 Name: Mr VacBob!JqK7T7zan. : 2006-08-01 11:41 ID:Heaven [Del]

Hello languagelog readers. This is a web sight. Let's be friends.

167 Name: Mr. : 2006-08-01 16:37 ID:7jyqC6tt [Del]

No thank you #166. Since this IS a website, I'm afraid I have to kill you. Wait just a minute, I'll throw a knife at you via the internet connection!!

168 Name: Anonymous : 2006-08-01 19:10 ID:/5sOzeFr [Del]

Does this mean the language log guy browses imageboards?

Be still my beating heart.

169 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2006-08-01 20:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>168

Probably has more to do with this thread being linked from Wikipedia. Well, I do enjoy languagelog from time to time, so I'm happy about getting a link.

170 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-03 05:47 ID:IuPEXCQQ [Del]

I stumbled across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentaigana while reading the article about that IME thing.

From it:

> Note that this hentai (ϑ: "variants") is not the same word as the hentai (ϑ) from which the English slang term is derived.

More evidence that hentai can mean different things, I guess.

171 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-03 19:58 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>170 That's a litle different, though: different word construction altogether.

172 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-04 07:26 ID:Heaven [Del]

Yes, Japanese contain innumerable homophones. This is seldom relevant in any way.

173 Name: Anonymous : 2006-09-04 18:33 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>171 >>172
Oh okay, I misconstrued that as not being homophone, sorry.

174 Name: newbie / noobs : 2006-09-19 05:59 ID:VoloTKuV [Del]

>>I bet you heard "hen", which just means "strange".
i always thinks that..
in my country Hentai is always direct to XXX Cartoon.. or something XXX but in graph / picture / not real.

>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentaigana
waw... the link is great.. I never know about this!!
if japanese write are like those.. i will never want to learn Japanesse write

I better learn my own country letter (Javanesse letter)

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176 Name: Anonymous : 2007-01-28 19:04 ID:yEqCajJs [Del]

  1. The use of the word "Hentai" in English somehow makes sense if you consider that the US/Britain the general view of what is "perverted" is different. Usually when you are in an American chat with strangers it's often the case that you get called a "pervert" for even hinting at anything that has to do with sex, while on the other hand they are completely uninhibited to discuss topics such as feces (which would would fit the definition of "perverted" in some other countries).
  2. If someone used 'H' to refer to what is known as Hentai in English then I'd be confused as to whether he didn't actually mean to refer to Heroin.

177 Name: Anonymous : 2007-02-06 11:10 ID:xYL2uTRt [Del]

>>176
H = Ecchi
it's not the abbreviation of your 'Hentai'.

178 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-16 23:23 ID:9x9ERTtS [Del]

Is it werid I thought it pronounced hental?

179 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-16 23:23 ID:9x9ERTtS [Del]

Is it weird I thought it pronounced hental?

180 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-16 23:28 ID:hVFgumP3 [Del]

>>178>>179
Same person.

181 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-18 13:28 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>180
Thank you for your informative post.

182 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-18 13:29 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>178>>179
and also not very bright.

183 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-18 21:07 ID:hVFgumP3 [Del]

>>181
Thanks for being a moron.

184 Name: Anonymous : 2007-04-18 21:45 ID:jjqlFoo7 [Del]

>>178>>179
It certainly sounds better.

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193 Name: orenji taicho : 2007-05-29 08:47 ID:LHfi/rmm [Del]

hentai? in one piece when franky said it i thought it ment transform 0_o
some one please answer these qeustions
what are the differences between henshin, hentai, and hengei

194 Name: Anonymous : 2007-05-30 16:56 ID:eTr8iNi/ [Del]

henshin - transform
hentai - pron (at least in the us)
hengei - ????

195 Name: Anonymous : 2007-05-31 05:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

> hentai - pron (at least in the us)

Somehow I think he was asking about Japanese, not English.

196 Name: anonymous : 2007-07-08 21:45 ID:F+C8/bd9 [Del]

Just my OP.

ecchi - No visible women nipples or anus and genitalia of either gender. Maybe cameltoe, poking-up tits under clothes, and bulging can be acceptable ecchi. It is called "ecchi" after all. (Used in sentence: "Not sure exactly how it looked, the details were ecchi.)

Hentai - Every part of the body can be exposed and captured in every position and usage.

197 Name: anonymous : 2007-07-08 21:45 ID:F+C8/bd9 [Del]

Just my OP.

ecchi - No visible women nipples or anus and genitalia of either gender. Maybe cameltoe, poking-up tits under clothes, and bulging can be acceptable ecchi. It is called "ecchi" after all. (Used in sentence: "Not sure exactly how it looked, the details were ecchi.)

Hentai - Every part of the body can be exposed and captured in every position and usage.

198 Name: Anonymous : 2007-07-09 05:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>196-196

Please read the fucking thread before posting, OK? Make the tiniest little effort.

199 Name: Anonymous : 2007-07-10 01:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>198-198
Please read your post before posting, OK?
Make the tiniest little effort.

200 Name: Anonymous : 2007-07-10 07:15 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>199

what

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