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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

For me < Ai > �� this word is very cool !!

thank for the meaning ... w00t!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

thtl wrote:


The old word for green, ��(ao), came from China and actually describes blue. Blue was one of the first colours produced artificially, as in dyes. The Chinese has always described the sky as green in their literature of old, and the Japanese probably picked that up when they travelled to China eons ago.

BTW 'ao' is green, and 'aoi' is the adjective.


Im even more confused Doh!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:55 pm    Post subject: Hello! Reply with quote Back to top

Hi everybody, does anyone know how are terminations like "san" or "kun" used in japanese names, like "hikari-san" by example?
Tnanx! Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

never mind.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:57 am    Post subject: Re: Hello! Reply with quote Back to top

Acalewia wrote:
Hi everybody, does anyone know how are terminations like "san" or "kun" used in japanese names, like "hikari-san" by example?
Tnanx! Smile


there's a thread for explaining exactly that. Search is your friend.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:17 am    Post subject: trafic lights Reply with quote Back to top

Actually, I have noticed the "green" light on japanese trafic lights are a "teal" color...not as green as the one in other places in the world but closer to blue than green....I guess we can all agree it means stop?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:19 am    Post subject: Re: trafic lights Reply with quote Back to top

Wrangler98se wrote:
Actually, I have noticed the "green" light on japanese trafic lights are a "teal" color...not as green as the one in other places in the world but closer to blue than green....I guess we can all agree it means stop?


Not in my part of the world... Green is go, red is stop Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:28 am    Post subject: Re: trafic lights Reply with quote Back to top

Wrangler98se wrote:
Actually, I have noticed the "green" light on japanese trafic lights are a "teal" color...not as green as the one in other places in the world but closer to blue than green....I guess we can all agree it means stop?
    In Japan they do use the word "aoi" (blue) to describe that light as opposed to "midori" (green)
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

This is a good thread, but it really makes me scratch my head. Big Grin
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Keps wrote:
This is a good thread, but it really makes me scratch my head. Big Grin
    Really? I usually end up scratching my a- er, uh, never mind.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
    Really? I usually end up scratching my a- er, uh, never mind.


TOO MUCH INFORMATION! Rolly
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