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title help - maybe - fpw - 10-09-2007
[SIZE="3"]I'm thinking maybe GAIJIN...the blade is the Gaijin Masamune and Jack is a gaijin wherever he goes. Hmmmm...[/SIZE]
title help - maybe - Silverfish - 10-09-2007
fpw Wrote:...GAIJIN...
It is quite fitting, now that I stop to think about it (and now that I've looked it up).
Stephanie
title help - maybe - saynomore - 10-09-2007
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]I'm thinking maybe GAIJIN...the blade is the Gaijin Masamune and Jack is a gaijin wherever he goes. Hmmmm...[/SIZE]
HARBINGERS is a hard act to follow... title-wise, that is.
AC
P.S. In The Hunted, Christopher Lambert's character is often referred to as Gaijin in a mocking way. Perhaps I don't quite get the full meaning of the word. :confused: Kenji, some help here....
title help - maybe - Ken Valentine - 10-10-2007
saynomore Wrote:HARBINGERS is a hard act to follow... title-wise, that is.
AC
P.S. In The Hunted, Christopher Lambert's character is often referred to as Gaijin in a mocking way. Perhaps I don't quite get the full meaning of the word. :confused: Kenji, some help here....
Generally speaking, it means foreigner but when spoken in a certain way, it also means barbarian.
Ken V.
title help - maybe - GeraldRice - 10-10-2007
My Japanese professor always told us to not use Gaijin as it was an offensive word. I forget the meaning other than outsider, but I think Ken is on the money. I think she told us to say Gairokujin which means "outside person" if I'm not mistaken.
title help - maybe - Kenji - 10-10-2007
Ken Valentine Wrote:Generally speaking, it means foreigner but when spoken in a certain way, it also means barbarian.
Ken V.
Barbarian? No!
Gaijin is foreigner, but correctly it's a word which shortened "Gaikokujin".
Gai=out
koku=country(countries)
jin=a person(s)
The meaning is "the person who came out of an other country".
I've never thought Gaijin = Barbarian.
title help - maybe - Kenji - 10-10-2007
GeraldRice Wrote:My Japanese professor always told us to not use Gaijin as it was an offensive word. I forget the meaning other than outsider, but I think Ken is on the money. I think she told us to say Gairokujin which means "outside person" if I'm not mistaken.
Gaikokujin = Outside person.....hmm, yes, it's correct. But recent young people don't use "Gaijin". We use "Gaikokujin".
Old people use that word "Gaijin-san", though...
title help - maybe - Paul R - 10-10-2007
ImDeranged Wrote:Yes but does the avg. person shopping a bookstore know what a Gaijin is?
If I remember correctly (which I often don't) when 'Harbingers' was being discussed as a potential title, that very same question was raised. I don't know whether or not the average reader's intelligence is taken into account when titling a book, but I just thought I'd point that out. I'd like to think though, that enough people would now be aware enough of the Repairman Jack name to give it a go nonetheless.
title help - maybe - Ken Valentine - 10-10-2007
Kenji Wrote:Barbarian? No!
Gaijin is foreigner, but correctly it's a word which shortened "Gaikokujin".
Gai=out
koku=country(countries)
jin=a person(s)
The meaning is "the person who came out of an other country".
True! I also understand that Gaijin is considered to be "politically incorrect" in Japan these days.
Quote:I've never thought Gaijin = Barbarian.
From what I understand, it depends on how it's used. Originally, the Portugese were referred to as nanbanjin or Southern Barbarians. (Or maybe just uncivilized.)
Ken V.
title help - maybe - GeraldRice - 10-10-2007
Kenji Wrote:Gaikokujin = Outside person.....hmm, yes, it's correct. But recent young people don't use "Gaijin". We use "Gaikokujin".
Old people use that word "Gaijin-san", though...
I hear there's a big bru-haha over young people importing too many foreign words. Is that true?