Okay, um... I will say I feel like making her really good with swords seems a bit random. ^^; And I still kind of think Nero is a weird name.

If it helps, the name Nero is latin and was the name of a emperor. The name itself is perfectly fine even if you find it weird, though them originally only having a given name and no family name IS weird.

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huh that's weird i didn't even get the notification from this

Ah, to avoid posting in a row I simply edited my post since at the time I was the most recent post. I guess it doesn't work if you edit it in?

.....my last edit, I'm saying this in the nicest way possible but this is getting to be more work than its worth. I mean the first few edits were obvious and needed to happen due to the lack of forethought, but now it feels a bit like your grinding down on my CS and taking away from how I want them to be. Nero is a weird name but that's his name, and why can't Aletha wield a sword? That's one of the many things that make my characters unique. My edit is that I replaced excellent with natural for her sword skill to make here "less skilled" and did say in the bio that she liked kendo. Hopefully this is enough for my CS to be accepted.

I just think Nero's a bit weird of a name to choose for a modern American teenager, but fine, it's not really a big deal and I guess there's some odd names already.

For Aletha, kendo's kind of a weird choice for a girl from the US. I'd recommend fencing if you want her to know how to use a sword.

a modern American teenager

People in Modern 'Merica name their kids Justice, Rocket, Heavenly, Apple, Banjo, and many many more. Those are the names that are at least actually words and not shit like Jermajesty.

You have a point about nonsense names that should not exist, true. Nero's way better than those.

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So I'm resisting the lawyer I will become within me and say am I accepted?

Hey @Urbanliner. Before I proceed with Kagura and Eri's conversation, how Japanese do you want to go? Do you want to do honorifics and place proper importance on the use of first and last names, etc., or should we just talk like English speakers who happen to be Japanese?

Kagura wants to make a good first impression, and just calling her Eri right off the bat would be horribly overfamiliar according to my osmosis of Japanese Culture; but I want to know whether you care about and/or are comfortable with going that far down the rabbit hole.

Surely that should be something we try and keep consistent throughout the whole RP? Since the issue of how everyone's addressing everyone else is kind of major.

@joeycbee: Did you edit the swordplay thing to fencing?

@Ichypa: When I'm playing Japanese characters I use honorifics. I feel like they're kind of important and don't always have a good translation.

Since Ryuuto is such a formal-proper type, he'll definitely be using honorifics and referring to people by their family names. Keiji, though, doesn't really have good manners. He won't be using honorifics and whatnot, but that's to deliberately make him sound coarse and informal.

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Yea....

Then they're accepted.

@joeycbee: Did you edit the swordplay thing to fencing?

@Ichypa: When I'm playing Japanese characters I use honorifics. I feel like they're kind of important and don't always have a good translation.

Well, if most people are going to be doing it, then I will for consistency's sake.

Also, it struck me just now reading Rika's latest post that she's absolutely adorable. I want to squeeze her.

Edit: Weird. When I try quoting in the IC thread it doesn't work properly. Something about the tags not being aligned properly.

Regarding language, my personal rule of thumb is this: Never translate names and don't use words that have suitable replacements. You wouldn't use the word Katana in place of the word Sword, but you would say it when talking about specifically Japanese Swords.

Honorifics are a little more complicated, because you have to consider that the character might purposely be following a specific set of customs as well as the fact that Japan in general is well versed in both Japanese and English. In a earlier post I called our resident anime catastrophe "Miki-Hakase", which is basically like saying Professor/Doctor Miki. Normally, I'd say you simply call her Professor/Doctor, but you might want to distinguish between a character following English customs and a character following Japanese ones. In a text based medium, the only real way to do that is to keep both "Professor/Doctor Miki" and "Miki-Hakase" as options. Otherwise, most Honorifics do pretty much have translations that work just fine - it only strikes as not because honorifics are a bit outdated in English.

Well, you'd use katana when talking about the specific Japanese sword referred to by that name in English. There's several different long, curved Japanese swords. XD

As for honorifics... yeah, I'll use them, but that's because there ARE a few that I've never seen a satisfactory alternative for that isn't looooooong character writing. It works, but does take rather an annoying time to become apparent. Especially in roleplays.

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i should have one up by tomorrow

@Xeronoia Actually, most honorifics don't have an English counterpart. The common honorific "san" is comparable to Mr./Mrs./Miss, but those English counterparts have different connotations. In English, calling somebody "Mr." generally means that you are either strangers or that the person is of a higher status for you. The honorific "san" is just common courtesy in Japan. "Chan" and "kun" have no English counterparts other than giving somebody a nickname. "Sama" is often compared to "Lord," but is more versatile than the English counterpart; it is essentially used any time one would wish to express high levels of respect and does not necessarily imply nobility like the English "Lord/Lady." And finally the senpai-kouhai relationship does not even exist in the west as it does in Japan, so the words are pretty much without equivalents. One could say "upperclassman," but while this word describes the physical relationship, it implies none of the social connotations that come with the word "senpai."

So, since this takes place in Japan and the underlying culture implied by honorifics should presumably be present, my vote is for generally using them. Though, the Westerners in the school who have just learned the language may want to omit honorifics, or even use them incorrectly... but that's just a suggestion.

I'm probably going to have Kagura using them mostly, since she is Japanese, while Sean will probably only use them if he's talking to Japanese people. He won't really see the need when talking to other Westerners.