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amae..is that you'll later read some of the names and realize how horrifically hilarious they are. One particular moment happened this year during one of my Japanese classes. See, way back in the day I had this character named Jishin back in the day. Jishin's not that bad of a name admittedly, especially if you don't imagine it has any kanji and thus don't try to attach a meaning to it (otherwise, yeah..."self confidence"? "accident"? yeah.) But of course, I couldn't be satisfied with just that, no, Jishin was only a nickname.
His real name was Jishinkaminarikajioyaji.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, during this class we had just finished reading a short scary story and were discussing scary things in Japanese. At one point my teacher puts this word up: 地震雷火事親父. AKA "Jishinkaminarikajioyaji". She explains that it's a proverb describing things that are generally feared such as earthquakes (jishin), thunder (kaminari), fires (kaji) and...one's father (oyaji).
Needless to say I had to try very hard to not burst out laughing in class.
I have a lot more characters with ridiculous Japanese names, but I think poor Jishin had the worst of it.
*gets back to work*
His real name was Jishinkaminarikajioyaji.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So anyway, during this class we had just finished reading a short scary story and were discussing scary things in Japanese. At one point my teacher puts this word up: 地震雷火事親父. AKA "Jishinkaminarikajioyaji". She explains that it's a proverb describing things that are generally feared such as earthquakes (jishin), thunder (kaminari), fires (kaji) and...one's father (oyaji).
Needless to say I had to try very hard to not burst out laughing in class.
I have a lot more characters with ridiculous Japanese names, but I think poor Jishin had the worst of it.
*gets back to work*
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Date: 2008-05-31 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-31 11:47 pm (UTC)Totally fine, it's not like she was a particularly fleshed out character of mine or anything lol.
All of this is making me nostalgic...I'd reread Cursed Blessings and Wayward Souls but I'm terrified of reading my old writing because wow do not want.
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Date: 2008-06-01 01:17 am (UTC)Oh my god tell me about it. It's terribly painful to read that stuff again XD; Uhhh.... we were creative, to say the least.