RMRK General => General Chat => Topic started by: CartoonFan on October 19, 2007, 02:41:37 AM
Title: Desu
Post by: CartoonFan on October 19, 2007, 02:41:37 AM
Who hasn't heard of desu? It's a spam word seen commonly in /b/, on 4chan. It is rarely used in actual Japan, and orignated from a Rozen Maiden character who finished her sentences with it.
Read up on desu here: [link]http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Desu[/link]
The reason I don't recommend reading up on it in wikipedia is well... find out for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desu
Spoilerfor:
Wikipedia even has been desu'd upon!
Stephen Colbert put desu on notice! If he put it on notice, you know it's a problem!
So many people have forgotten that "desu" only sounds cute when an anime girl says it. When a real life dude says it, he looks like a noobologist.
Discuss upon this subject!
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: Lord Dante on October 19, 2007, 02:50:48 AM
lol, you know 'desu' is just 'is/am/are/be' in basic/formal Japanese, right?
edit: However, the internet usage is quite funny :P Thanks for that, I didn't know what it was used for before.
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: CartoonFan on October 19, 2007, 02:52:41 AM
really? that encyclopedia site said it was used rarely in Japan. Oh well.
Anyway, I remeber use of the word "desu" in a couple of anime open themes.
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: Lord Dante on October 19, 2007, 02:55:03 AM
Well, its probably rarely used, because in writing they probably think of more eloquent verbs and in speech you hardly just say "I is/am/are somthing". Or, in speech the verb is implied, so you dont completely say the sentence.
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: CartoonFan on October 19, 2007, 03:02:09 AM
I see. Well, it's clear that desu is serious business. After all, Stephen Colbert put it on NOTICE! Unless that picture was photoshopped upon, which never happens on the internet!
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: Leventhan on October 19, 2007, 03:05:17 AM
Desu is alright, I guess. Not annoying.
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: &&&&&&&&&&&&& on October 19, 2007, 03:07:35 AM
why does it say "ns?p"?
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: CartoonFan on October 19, 2007, 03:09:12 AM
I... don't... know. Heck, I'm still trying to figure out how they got it that way in the first place!
Title: Re: Desu
Post by: tSwitch on October 19, 2007, 03:10:20 AM
desu is used in japanese quite often
what's not used is "dattebayo" which is now Naruto ends most of his sentences in the japanese version dattebayo essentially is an accentuation of the fact taht you just said a verb in the sentnence you just spoke
it's like saying "I ran to the store I said a verb in this sentence"