Comments on: How to Talk Like a Samurai

By: Kurogane

Kurogane — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:06:00 +0000

Hey, Great article. Good laughs. Anyways, Katajikenai literally means “it is too much to bear” (a received kindness or favour). The underlying idea is that old school Japanese hate the sense of indebtedness for such things.

By: Kudingkingboy

Kudingkingboy — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:00:00 +0000

http://anime-manga.jp/CharacterExpressions/

By: Himura Kenshin

Himura Kenshin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:48:00 +0000

Sessha wa Rurouni, de gozaru yo!

By: koichi

koichi — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:13:00 +0000

I’m sure there were local 弁s, probably more then than now, but this is
mostly old style talk, rather than a dialect. You won’t really hear people
talking like this anymore, unless they’re doing it to be funny, or in a
Samurai movie.

By: neildingman

neildingman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:15:00 +0000

This is very interesting article, Koichi. Just to satisfy my inner おたく, the 武士 Japanese is this a local 弁 that was somewhere between 敬語 and common form?

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