Halo

Is it possible to live a fully fulfilled life under constant surveillance?

Yes
or no
maybe
I don't know
can you repeat the question
...
you're not the boss of me now

Nargle how dare you?!?

Let us have some fun Sherly. Pls. People are actually talking in spam; this thread was a Thanksgiving miracle.

I need help with a project

Divine energy powers. Apparently that includes firing projectiles of divine energy. Time to start hadoukening people all day erryday.

The Thoughts of A Psychological Function

To keep this relatively short: that area of the world is a fucking mess right now, to no small extent because of the misguided and self-interested actions of Western countries. The vast majority of the victims of that are simply humans, like you or me, whose world has imploded because they are from that area. It is not fair that it happened to them; they are no better or worse than anyone else, and yet they have lost everything. Even if we had no involvement and were nothing to do with the causes of the violence and destruction - which is not the case - the only human course of action is to do what we can for those suffering. As a Brit, I'm disgusted with the current government's pathetic level of involvement and commitment with helping the refugees flooding into Europe.

Paris was a tragedy. Lebanon was a tragedy. Every such attack is a tragedy. But letting it get the better of us, letting fear control our actions more than compassion? That would be the greatest tragedy of all. That's how we lose.

How do you get a sempai to notice you?

@HaloWell, clearly everyone on this thread got the jist of what I meant so there is no harm done mate

@ClocktowerEchos

Yeah it wasn't really meant to be a criticism - more trying to be helpful than anything. ^_^ you'd be surprised how vicious some anime and manga fans get when you mispronounce or misspell something...

How do you get a sempai to notice you?

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@Halo I'm happy that you are taking time to express concern for the misinterpretation of the Japanese language, but as someone who has been speaking Japanese almost their entire life, I have to make some tweaks to your explenation.
We use sempai and senpai together, actually. When we are addressing someone we admire as a tutor or teacher, we use sempai. This term is used for a senior that you respect normally.
When using senpai, you would use it to address someone that you find as an upperclassmen or senior that you admire with a passion.
Some people interchange them in speech, finding that the person they are addressing fits both descriptions, and that's okay.

Edit: Excuse the mispelled words. I fixed them, but obviously my English needs help xD

@Anime_Freak

Then I've been misinformed by the internet. Curses. :P "Senpai" is indeed the correct romanisation though - I actually wrote a section detailing why "m" was used instead in the traditional Hepburn (something along the lines of what you're saying although I didn't realise the change in pronounciation was deliberate) but deleted it 'cause the post was way too long or something.
And to be honest it wasn't really meant to express concern or turn into a discussion - it was a frivolous comment I thought someone interested in anime/Japanese culture (i.e. the OP) would want to know.

How do you get a sempai to notice you?

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Oh, wasn't that part of that big romanized spelling change that they did? I remember hearing some random tidbit of info on it a while back.

@Keyguyperson

EDIT: Apparently I'm like super-wrong about the senpai/sempai thing. At least pronounciation-wise (see Anime_Freak's post.) The romanisation is still "senpai".

ORIGINAL: Back in '54? Yeah, it was when the Japanese government were trying to figure out which romanisation system to adopt.

In '30 they put up a committee to figure it out and finally decided on Nihon-shiki (now known as Kunrei-shiki) in '37. But the US being the US, in '45, after WWII, the occupying Allies came in and declared Hepburn to be the official system, because apparently Nihon-shiki had "militaristic associations" or some bollocks. It wasn't until '54 that the Japanese government officially confirmed a slightly-modified Nihon-shiki as the official one again. Hepburn 3rd edition - also known as modern Hepburn, the one that made this change - was released the same year. Funnily enough Hepburn is actually the most used system today. I use/used it in class while learning hiragana.

Anyway, that's the only occasion I can find reference to in which there was enough simultaneous change to maybe be considered "major". Idk maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.

How do you get a sempai to notice you?

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There are different spellings for it. Sempai is one of them.

@Keyguyperson

Nope.

Actual Facts

I'm currently studying Japanese through my university, but if that isn't enough proof Wikipedia and Google agree with me. A quick search says that out of the three main romanisations of Japanese, all use "senpai". There was one that used to use "sempai" but that was revised to "senpai" over 60 years ago.

How do you get a sempai to notice you?

It's senpai, by the way. Not sempai.

role models

@HaloYou're my role model.

@idlehands

#triggered