Japanese monikers

Bragging about banging snaggletooth to all your gaijin friends is half the fun of being a foreigner. If all else fails, you can scream out, "Watashi wa... CHARISMA MAN DESU!" It works, trust me. Comic strips never lie.

 

This is where I'm coming from. It's stupid, lazy and a fucking joke.

 

In an alphabet based language you can begin to figure out where one word came from two. It would seem in languages that use symbols and syllables this is almost impossible without already knowing the root of the new word. I've seen how much you can change a single character in Chinese to form many different words without modifying it drastically which leads me to believe something similar is possible in Japanese.

To quote the generation coming up here after mine, "they be cray cray".

 

Guys, don't forget about the texting lingo in English-speaking countries:

"ey bb got no $ on my ph jst thort Id giv yr SxC self a txt. LY"

At least, that's how a lot of people here text these days in the US.

 

Yep, that whole text lingo is annoying as well. Don't use it, don't like it.
Yep, you can really tell I'm an old fart

 

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. I'm sure there are people who text like that, but nobody I know.

As far as abbreviations in Japanese, I don't know a whole lot about the language, but it seems to me that it's probably less about convenience/laziness and more about cuteness/coolness. We have plenty of similar butchered versions of words, intended to make them sound cooler, in English - in the US at least. I don't think it's even so much a cultural thing - it's just how language evolves over time.

 

My brain.... It hurts!

 

The Quebecker slang language here is really messed up compared to "by the book", or international French. People from France or other francophone countries often cant understand a shit of what we are saying. So we have to adapt when talking to them.

Its a complete mess of contractions, mispronunciation, new words that only exist in a some regions and not others, weird expressions also specific to some regions, borrowed English words ( lots of em ) and of course , the Sacres! There are so many swear words in quebec, and all the english ones are also used as well, all mixed together.

 

For games, I know Baio (BIOHAZARD) and AkuDora. I've not been to Japan but I know a few people living there and they've looked for games for me. Apparently when my friend Takahiro asked for BIOHAZARD, the clerk abbreviated it to Baio. He said they add engrish as well, and example is for the Baio games (Baio Tsu, Baio Tsuri).

 

I'm sensing that most people here aren't realizing that Japanese isn't a language based upon alphabetical characters so these shortened forms of words can be considered as acronyms in the language. There are only some recent cases where something like JK or ORZ is a recognized acronym while most others will be something like Suto2 for SF2 or Monhan for Monster Hunter. What you'll notice is that most of these shortened forms are usually 2 syllables.