The Stupid, Never-ending Voris Debate

[Evangetholic]

Be careful someone might be offended by your comment.

 

:hehe2:

 

Then they'd surely be some Modernist Gay Mafioso Homoheretic.

[vee]

you're just a Canadian. Everyone cares about Canadians.

 

fixed

[KnightofChrist]

fixed

Canadians are pretty cool. 'Mericans are like way cooler though.

[MIKolbe]

the guns make us cooler

 

 

 

[MIKolbe]

[Nihil Obstat]

the guns make us cooler

That is approximately 50% of the reason I promised Katy that we will move back to the US. :|

[PhuturePriest]

 

I nominate this for one of the most adorable pictures ever.
 

That is approximately 50% of the reason I promised Katy that we will move back to the US. :|

 

You are a wise one, Irenaeus-san.

[Nihil Obstat]

You are a wise one, Irenaeus-san.

That is Irenaeus-sama to you. :|

[PhuturePriest]

That is Irenaeus-sama to you. :|

 

Os, sensei.

[Nihil Obstat]

Os, sensei.

First, it is "Osu". Second, it is kind of a dumb word that we abuse the floopy out of. We should be working at slowly and steadily eliminating it from our karate lexicon. Otherwise the Japanese will think that we are all mentally deficient. And God knows that would be bad for 'Murican Exceptionalism.

[PhuturePriest]

First, it is "Osu". Second, it is kind of a dumb word that we abuse the floopy out of. We should be working at slowly and steadily eliminating it from our karate lexicon. Otherwise the Japanese will think that we are all mentally deficient. And God knows that would be bad for 'Murican Exceptionalism.

 

The way I learned it was "Os". And yeah, definitely. It makes me so annoyed when people abuse it.

[Nihil Obstat]

The way I learned it was "Os". And yeah, definitely. It makes me so annoyed when people abuse it.

Japanese words cannot end with an -s. Generally when you hear an -s, you are actually hearing -su, with the u sound being buried and nearly unnoticeable. Same thing if you hear a sentence ending in something that sounds like des~, what you are actually hearing is desu. AFAIK the only consonant on which a Japanese word is able to end is -n, as in san, yen, gohan, gomen, etc.

Here, spend a half hour reading these four articles and be enlightened:

 

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2005/08/29/appropriate-usage-of-osu/

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2008/12/30/the-origins-of-osu/

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2008/12/31/do-you-say-osu-too-much/

 

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2009/01/05/the-esprit-de-corps-of-osu-or-maybe-not/

 

 

They say basically everything there is to say about the word.

[PhuturePriest]

Japanese words cannot end with an -s. Generally when you hear an -s, you are actually hearing -su, with the u sound being buried and nearly unnoticeable. Same thing if you hear a sentence ending in something that sounds like des~, what you are actually hearing is desu. AFAIK the only consonant on which a Japanese word is able to end is -n, as in san, yen, gohan, gomen, etc.

Here, spend a half hour reading these four articles and be enlightened:

 

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2005/08/29/appropriate-usage-of-osu/

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2008/12/30/the-origins-of-osu/

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2008/12/31/do-you-say-osu-too-much/

 

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/2009/01/05/the-esprit-de-corps-of-osu-or-maybe-not/

 

 

They say basically everything there is to say about the word.

 

Osu. :japanese:

[Nihil Obstat]

Osu. :japanese:

[EmilyAnn]

AFAIK the only consonant on which a Japanese word is able to end is -n, as in san, yen, gohan, gomen, etc.

You are correct. All other Japanese syllables end in a vowel, '-n' is the only single consonant.