Scientists make monkeys glow, cure AIDS

[Erif]

The new Glow-in-the-Dark monkey! Never lose your pet monkey in the dark again! :3

G-glow in the dark monkeys!??!?!?!?!?! MOMMY, BUT ME A GLOW IN THE DARK MONKEY
Um... maybe for your birthday, honey.
*Voice gets deep and raspy* No, I need a glow in the dark monkey now women!

 

[goldenquagsire]

Kawaii is not like Je ne sais quoi because it is a direct translation of cute and therefore does not need to be introduced into our vocabulary since the world already exists and expresses itself perfectly.

I disagree!

"Cute" in English often has sexual connotations (e.g. "that girl's so cute, I wanna bone her" or "I had great oral from Steve, he's so cute"). Kawaii is a completely aesexual word! You would never use it to describe, say, a stripper. Thus, there is space in the language to accommodate it!

Also I'd argue that "je ne sais quoi" could easily be replaced by the common English word "thing".

Maybe I'm just a weeaboo, but I think that if you're going to be a fanboy over a racist, insular, overrated culture, you should at least be able to choose which one it is. :3

 

[Vladimir Putin's LJ]

Er. Cute has sexual connotations? I guess I want to fuck kittens. Don't make things up for the sake of an argument.

And no. 'That man had a certain je ne sais quoi...'
'That man had a certain thing.'
As I said, there's no real translation. And whether you like it or not, France influenced Britain greatly and vice-versa and there's no reason for your weird hatred of it as a country.

 

[goldenquagsire]

i just think that French culture is *massively* overrated. seriously, the way some people treat it is no different from weeaboos with Japan.

i mean, sure. they came up with some cool stuff. but France is not all the damned culture that exists in the world.

Er. Cute has sexual connotations? I guess I want to fuck kittens. Don't make things up for the sake of an argument.

huh.

interesting. i could *swear* that i've heard many people use it in the context of sex. but y'know, maybe i'm just stupid. :3

 

[GameFreakerZero]

interesting. i could *swear* that i've heard many people use it in the context of sex. but y'know, maybe i'm just stupid. :3

It's more of a general description and then it's turned sexual by context, much like how beautiful is a word that can be used to describe a person you think is attractive, or you could use it to describe a landscape (or something to that effect).

I always thought that people used kawaii to mean a much more extreme version of cute to be honest.

Don't really see the argument against its use other than the fact it sounds incredibly stupid. At least it's a word from another language rather than some of the utterly idiotic slang words that are being added to English dictionaries.

 

[Abwayax]

Don't really see the argument against its use other than the fact it sounds incredibly stupid.

That is the argument against its use, if I'm not mistaken.

I think the difference between people using a phrase that's been "assimilated" into the English language (it's been said before, English "beats up other languages and steals words from them" - lots of English words come from other languages) over the course of a very long time, versus weeaboos throwing random Japanese words into English text because of some strange aversion to English words ("Im looking for a bento box, it cant be pinku (thats japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (thats japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi(small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute).")

 

[OrangeAipom]

Isn't that just stealing back and forth? Because of all of the anime, ratio, beru, manga, pinku (apparently), pan (That's Spanish, I think), mii, mon, etc. It's sort of dumb.

I wouldn't like a glowing pet/person. I'd be difficult to sleep since it's so bright and all.