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  2. Japanese profanity - Wikipedia

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    Japanese exhibits pronoun avoidance, meaning that using pronouns is often too direct in Japanese, and considered offensive or strange. [6] One would not use pronouns for oneself, 私 (watashi, 'I'), or for another, あなた (anata, 'you'), but instead would omit pronouns for oneself, and call the other person by name:

  3. Busuu - Wikipedia

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    Busuu was founded in May 2008 by Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti. The company launched with a free version of its website and opened its first office in Madrid.In 2009, Premium membership was introduced to access to all features on the platform and in 2010, the first Busuu mobile app was launched.

  4. Kyōgen - Wikipedia

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    Kyōgen (狂言, "mad words" or "wild speech") is a form of traditional Japanese comic theater.It developed alongside Noh, was performed along with Noh as an intermission of sorts between Noh acts on the same stage, and retains close links to Noh in the modern day; therefore, it is sometimes designated Noh-kyōgen.

  5. Bu Su - Wikipedia

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    Bu Su (ブス, Busu) is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Jun Ichikawa. It is Ichikawa's first feature film. Awards. 9th Yokohama Film Festival [1] [2]

  6. Glossary of owarai terms - Wikipedia

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    From the verb bokeru 惚ける or 呆ける, which carries the meaning of "senility" or "air headed-ness," and is reflected in a performer's tendency for misinterpretation and forgetfulness. The boke is the "simple-minded" member of an owarai kombi ( "tsukkomi and boke" , or vice versa ) that receives most of the verbal and physical abuse from ...

  7. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  8. Kuso - Wikipedia

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    Kuso is a term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody.In Japanese, kuso (糞,くそ,クソ) is a word that is commonly translated to English as curse words such as fuck, shit, damn, and bullshit (both kuso and shit refer to feces), and is often said as an interjection.

  9. Nianfo - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Nianfo carving. The Nianfo (Chinese: 念佛; pinyin: niànfó, alternatively in Japanese 念仏 (ねんぶつ, nenbutsu); Korean: 염불; RR: yeombul; or Vietnamese: niệm Phật) is a Buddhist practice central to East Asian Buddhism.