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Japan, you're like that weird friend that we'll never truly understand but that we'd never trade for anyone else

it's not like i want you to get in the chopper or anything, b-baka!

@TrueEnder I want some people to get on the helicopters too.

@Finn123 Augusto Pinochet?

@Scanian_dreng Pinochet memes yes. That's what you do to marxists.

@TrueEnder I now wish he said that instead of Get to the Chopper. XD

Chan,san,kun, sensei...anyone having flashbacks to their cringy middle school weaboo phase?

@chaosgirl13 This comic is soooo weaboo-friendly

Kami-sama bless Humon-chan ! :P

@chaosgirl13 Yup. My skin is crawling just thinking about it.

@chaosgirl13 Thank God mine was never bad enough that I started using Japanese words in conversation. Dodged another cringe bullet!

@chaosgirl13 kawaiiii desu neeee (◕‿◕✿)
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i think i just vomited

Okay but the governator is like the most huggable Austrian you'll ever meet.

I just realized England and Japan look pretty similar. Well, to me at least.

@Rayati That's racist. :P

@BETAOPTICS I was talking about the characters. They both wear white shirts and eyewear, they both have black hair and light-ish skin (disagree with me if you will)

@Rayati I know and I made a joke. :p

@BETAOPTICS Me: *sitting there, feeling sorta stupid*

@Rayati Ah don't beat yourself too much about it. I was vague so it could have been easily misunderstood, blame my sense of humor and playing with language. Besides you were right, I had the same feeling when I read it trough, I never noticed it before.

@BETAOPTICS Yeah, I understand

XD Pretty good, but you missed out -shi, -sama, -senshu, -senpai, -kouhai and -ue, plus a few more that I might have forgotten ;) Though to be fair, the last two aren't really used with names; I refer to people as my kouhai when discussing them with someone else, but I would never call them, say, "Momoe-kouhai."

It also depends on the personality as well as preferences. I went to film college with a guy named Kikumoto who always insisted on being called Kiku-chan. I'm female but I'm also pretty tomboyish, so occasionally my classmates would call me Naka-kun :P

@JudasFm
The rule about honorific suffixes I keep in mind when I started learning Japanese went like this: "Respect travels up the social ladder; familiarity down." Or even shorter: Titles go up; names go down.

Akane: "Want me to brush your hair, Oneechan?"
Kasumi: "No thank you Akane-chan, I've got it."

GET TO DA CHOPPASTICKS!

Once upon a time English had LOTS of confusing terms like Master, and the number of names after Miss depended on your birth order (to name just a couple) thankfully English evolved (or we wild colonial types just go lazy and stopped using them) so it really did take me learning Japanese to work out what all that guff in Austin and Dickens Novels was about.

@6WhiteBoomers Actually on formal occasions some of these are still (rarely) used. -When I was a child if we got post from our great grandparents I'd be addressed as Master (Oldest male Sibling) and my brother as Minor (Younger male sibling)
I think there are additional titles depending on how many siblings, but I can't remember them offhand!

@Piyo Oh boy. I mean Master (or Minor? Sir? Lord? ARRRRRRRGH!) that means I'm actually going to need to pull my cheat sheets out again when I go visit the family back in the Mother Land? What about Wales and Scotland? Do their versions of English and Celtic have this?

@6WhiteBoomers I asked my mum (who's welsh) and she just screamed in abject horror of the monster that is welsh!

@LuxVertas Does that Google Translate App work on Welsh yet?

@6WhiteBoomers uhh... maybe?

@LuxVertas ... *gulp*

@6WhiteBoomers Hope this helps ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forms_of_address_in_the_United_Kingdom

@Heilkaiba *GAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!* (It's even bigger than my cheat sheet)

...Maybe it's time for a language revolution.

@6WhiteBoomers I dunno, we still have a few. Master refers to men under the age of 18 when they become Mister. Miss is for unmarried females of any age. When they get married they become Mrs. Ms is a female title which is not linked to marital status and can be used by anyone, but it does seem to be used by divorced women most commonly.
Originally Master was only for the eldest sibling and the others didn't have titles, but you'll often see in literature Young Master for the younger sibling
Yay for the English class system!

Why do they look so similar? I like it it's just... they look a lot like twins

@Katsurai
Probably just the hairstyle and the flag coloring

@ABCEastPonymon yeah probably

Really, The Expendables series must be the cutest films Japan has ever seen, with plush toys like Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Van Damme.