Okay, here goes...

Gender: Female
Age: I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest on here, so there's no need to go into specifics ^.^'''
Country/Continent: USA
Race: Filipino/Caucasian
Main Personality Traits: Honest, lazy, considerate...I don't really know ^.^'''
IQ: 118 (Is that good? Cuz I have no idea)
Otaku or not: Definitely
Favourite food: Currently? Gelatin!
Height: 4"11 (I am oh so small)
Eye Color: Hazel (used to be brown; idk wtf happened)
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Favourite band/musician: The Rocket Summer/Panic! At The Disco
Favourite English TV Show: I guess...Scrubs (I have soo many favorites though)
Favourite Movie: I guess Dawn Of The Dead, 28 Days Later, and the Harry Potter movies
Favourite English Cartoon: Don't really have one
Most Visited Website: Yahoo!, YouTube, Wikipedia, this site and Baka-Updates
Favourite Actress: Don't have one
Favourite Actor: Don't have one
How many Siblings: 2; an older brother (20) and older sister (17)

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Gender: Male
Age: 16
Country: USA
Race: Asian Indian
Main Personality Traits: responsible, yet Procrastinate alot
IQ: ranges from 145 to 166
Otaku or not: not yet
Favorite Food: Baked Ziti
Height: 5'10"
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair color: Black
Fav. English TV shows: Heroes, Amazing Race, Drake and Josh, and American Idol
Fav. Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean I and II, Rush Hour I and II
Fav English Cartoon: Haven't watched them in a long time.
Most visited sites: Yahoo, Gmail, Wikipedia, Baka-Updates

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"The only thing to fear is fear itself" (Franklin D Roosevelt)

Its not always what it looks like...

I stayed in Belem at a hotel by the river. They had an amazing complimentary breakfast there. I would eat and eat in the morning and then sleep and watch direct tv and read manga in the hotel room all day while my father and mother went sight seeing and visiting some old friends. After a few days of living heavenly like that my parents made me go places with them. Didn't regret it that much the city of Belem is pretty nice but as is the case with a lot of countries all around the world (including the us) as soon as you leave the city and drive to the outskirts the disparity between rich and poor is clearly great.


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~~~the world it is a dyin'~~ so let's just enjoy the view~~~

Oh... right... forgot about that, well here it is
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Country: Hong Kong
Race: Chinese
Main Personality Traits: kind, passive (only in real life), stubborn
IQ: not sure... havent checked since i was 9
Otaku or not: If i wasnt so broke i would be
Height: 1.66m
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair color: Black
Fav. English TV shows: Heroes, Smallville, Prisonbreak
Fav. Movies: None really, i dont care much for movies.
Fav English Cartoon: The Simpsons, Teen Titans, Invader Zim
Most visited sites: too many... I have a 26 tab homepage lolz

Holy cow, this thing’s turned into a monster! O_o


Errrr my Japanese is pretty minimal, but wouldn’t that be calling me “Tofuqueen’s grandmother”??


Heh…not…exactly… >_> More like, the first time I didn’t study something that would help me get a good job, so after a while I went back.


Yay, I’m not the only one!!
And for the two added categories:
Occupation: Mom, church secretary, horse stall cleaner, and church nursery attendant (and no, I’m not a member of either church I’m employed by, or any church at all for that matter)
Major: First time, History w/English minor; second time, Accounting


Already have, we actually started reading manga at the same time via a random volume of Ranma ½ from the public library. My boys are 11; they read mostly shounen stuff (One Piece, Case Closed, etc.) but they’re also enjoying Skip Beat! a lot. Honestly, I don’t see what’s odd about reading the same things your kids read (unless it’s the really sexual stuff, that would be kind of…creepy….). It’s not like we all sit together on the couch & read the same book at the same time anymore, like we did with that first volume of Ranma 1/2 when the boys weren’t reading that well yet, but we do all read a lot of the same books.

Tests...ugh...they can be sooo far off. When I went to college (the first time), they tried to place me in a calculus class my first semester because of my SAT score - even though the highest math I'd had in high school was Algebra II, and I took no math at all senior year. I would have failed calculus miserably (math is NOT my thing!). I'm just a "good test taker", which makes it look like I know more than I do.

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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

I think "baachan" is a friendly form of adress for a mother, while
"baaasan" is a polite one.

yeah, yeah, mighty thinks I learnt from reading mangas^^

baa= an honorific type thing that's used for old people.
chan= an honorific that's usually reserved for girls.

Put them together and you get something to the effect of Old Lady.

I got this from Naruto when he calls Tsunade: tsunade no baa chan.

So hence Tofuqueen no baa chan. I was just kidding about all of this btw. But I think what I said is correct in terms of use. Someone who knows japanese well correct me if I am wrong please? I am still learning

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I feel like I'm showing off my ignorance here, I'm sure I'll mess something up. (>_>)

My understanding is: the full term is "oba-san/chan" for "auntie/older woman" and "obaa-san/chan" for grandmother/OLD woman; "san" is more polite/formal while "chan" is more informal/affectionate; and "baa" is short form/informal/slang/whatever.

"No" in Japanese is possessive, so while "watashi" = "me/I", "watashi no" = "my/mine", etc.

Therefore "tofuqueen no baachan" would be "tofuqueen's grandmother".

I have heard that Naruto is about the worst anime to learn Japanese from, as he uses language that ranges from weird to just plain wrong. I don't know that much Japanese & have never watched it so I can't say if that's true or not, but from this example I'd tend to agree that Naruto's not the place to learn the language.

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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

Gender: Female
age: 14 - freshman
country: USA
race: white/caucasian (sp?)
main personality traits: a little eccentric, cherful mostly, and kind
IQ: uhh...not usre....but i'm in all advanced classes...if that counts for anything.
otaku or not: nope
favourite food: talapia, rice, and grilled cheese
height: 4'5"
eye colour: blue-ish silver
hair colour: a dark blonde...almost brown
favourtie band/musician: too many! P.U.S.A. and Scary Kids Scaring Kids would be the top two..
Favourite English TV show: 3rd rock form the sun, drew carey show, seinfeld and who's line ...(i like the oldies...ish)
Favourite movie: Benchwarmers, or RENT
Favourite english cartoon: invader zim, and family guy
most visited website: sheezyart, gaiaonline, baka-updates, tokyopop, flclw...this website...
favourite actress: Dakota fanning
favourite actor: Will Smith!! ^.^
how many siblings: 2 half siblings



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Cry "HAVOC!"
and let slip
the dogs of war.

hiro no baka- does not mean hiro's idiot
There are more than one ways of using a word.
It basically means "the" although you can't really translate it. So tsunade no baachan means tsunade the old lady/grandmother or granny tsunade (no matter how bad his japanese is they would never let naruto say something that makes absolutely no sense like tsunade's grandmother- think about it if you had an english show and the character had bad grammer you still wouldn't make him call a person their own grandmother. Would you?)
So in conclusion tofuqueen no baa chan means - old lady tofuqueen. End of story I am positive now. Unless a japanese person who speaks really good english tells me otherwise. Yep i'm that confident.Hehe.*Breaks out into hysterical laughter mwahahahahahaha


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Hmmmmmm could it possibly be "ano" rather than "no"? "Ano" roughly translates to "that", which would actually make sense...

As far as I know, and I did check this in several dictionaries last night, "no" doesn't really translate to "the" or "that" or anything similar. I'm certainly not an expert, but I do have a fairly good ear for when something just sounds wrong, and using "no" like that just sounds wrong.


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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

Gender:male
Age:19
Country/Continent:Germany
Race:Germans shouldn't talk about races
Main Personality Traits: crazy, like sports,
IQ: Just made my Abi !! not too smart but not stupid either
Otaku or not: ^^ guess i am stupid ?! what is Otaku ??
Favourite food: "Zwiebelrostbraten"
Height: 184 cm ( guess that's a little taller than 6 feet )
Eye Color:brown
Hair Color:brown
Favourite band/musician: " Boese Onklez " (german band)
Favourite English Tv Show: ----
Favourite Movie:-----
Favourite English Cartoon:-----
Most Visited Website: http://yhbt.mine.nu/
Favourite Actress:-----
Favourite Actor: Will Smith
How many Siblings: three a brother and two sisters

Gratulation, qghorst, I also just finished with my abi (almost)... now we have sooooo much time to drink soooooo much that we forget everything we learned in 13 years komasaufen rulez.... (no, actually it doesn't, cause puking sucks)

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Gender:Male
Age:17
Country/Continent:Sweden
Race:Chile/Colombia
Main Personality Traits:Shy and bad at english.
IQ: Don't know but im smart enough, I think =)
Otaku or not:Id say I am =)
Favourite food:Kebab/souvlaki !
Height:around 175 cm i think...
Eye Color:Brown almost black
Hair Color:black
Favourite band/musician:In flames/System of a down
Favourite English Tv Show:Family guy/South park
Favourite Movie:
Most Visited Website:Wikipedia
Favourite Actress: Scarlett Johansson
Favourite Actor : Don't know !
How many Siblings:1 brother

What's an abi? Sounds like high education, however, I threw it into dictionary.com and came up with: Absolute Breadth Index, Application Binary Interface, Abilene Regional Airport, and acquired brain injury. I hope education didn't cause you brain damage.

edit: Wikipedia claims "abi is another name for GOD", this is getting more interesting all the time...

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