tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post6499953054963964260..comments2024-03-02T17:25:45.651+09:00Comments on Kookaburra@CISTUJ: POP Culture... (continuation)morita.tujhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216534268246136530noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post-49979551295396478072011-09-25T16:52:59.901+09:002011-09-25T16:52:59.901+09:00Since I noticed that it was hard for some people t...Since I noticed that it was hard for some people to know that this blogpost was a continuation of the previous one, I made up my mind to put a link of the previous blogpost in around the top part of this one.<br />Sorry for confusing you! XD;;;morita.tujhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216534268246136530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post-22374731144151391922011-09-25T16:20:50.585+09:002011-09-25T16:20:50.585+09:00Thanks for introducing the Hetalia thing to me. Bu...Thanks for introducing the Hetalia thing to me. But I must confess that it is all very confusing. It seems there ar lots of characters and story lines to sort out. <br /><br />It looks like this could be an example of a cultural cross section that requires a lot of time and effort to learn what is going on. By that, it would seem to have the potential to exclude those not patient enough to figure it out.<br /><br />Don't know whether this is good or bad.<br /><br />On a side note, some bloggers suggest sticking to one topic per blog post. I put all my energy into following the Hetalia links that I didn't have the energy to try to make sense of the emoticons. That's one reason why it might courteous to your readers to limit to one topic per post.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04478545487584654851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post-21214302342814463772011-09-19T22:47:57.451+09:002011-09-19T22:47:57.451+09:00Actually, there's another interpretation of mi...Actually, there's another interpretation of mine;<br />I believe those Japanese emoticons are having something to do with Japanese manga culture as well.<br />Coz, maybe you're already able to see though, those emoticons' poses and "facial-expressions" are REALLY similar to commonly-seen kinda manga charcters'!<br />So like, maybe Japanese people who first came up with the idea of emoticons were not able to come up with making them horizontally, coz they've never thought of making them that way coz of their getting used to expressions regularly used in manga-comics.<br /><br />WELL, what do you think of THAT? :Dmorita.tujhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216534268246136530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post-32195731665521625552011-09-19T12:36:39.299+09:002011-09-19T12:36:39.299+09:00Wow, great insight on original Japanese emoticons ...Wow, great insight on original Japanese emoticons I would have otherwise not known about, since my iphone only has these:<br /><br />f^_^;) (^O^)/ ( T_T)\(^_^ ) (#^.^#) (._.)<br /><br />Which back in America I found them extremely Japanese since Americans don't use those.<br /><br />Again, Kanji is a mo fo...Walterpihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11364639305813937371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post-22567176217495675192011-09-17T11:27:25.812+09:002011-09-17T11:27:25.812+09:00TNX for a comment! :)
Well, I believe it's co...TNX for a comment! :)<br /><br />Well, I believe it's coz of the form of letters they're using.<br />Since Japanese have Kanji-letters, many of the letters are having a certain level of complexity, and some are also having a symmetric shape.<br />That makes much easier for people to select shapes those actually look like parts of right-way faces.<br />Plus, they've learned alphabets as well ... they also have choices to select alphabets for parts of face-shapes.<br />So, I guess, Kanji-letters became triggers of Japanese people's making such sorts of emoticons.<br /><br />Also, I see some of non-Japanese speakers starting using virtical-way emoticons, too.<br />They might come up with ↓these↓ kinds of emoticons, only by using letters you can see in English-based keyboards!<br />(@u@`*) (Y_Y`) (ToT) (a"a#) (-w-`)morita.tujhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216534268246136530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4956501667278396121.post-80265704991705105232011-09-16T23:21:33.993+09:002011-09-16T23:21:33.993+09:00Interesting post and interesting to see the Japane...Interesting post and interesting to see the Japanese emoticons. Also, most Western emoticons are sideways, but Japanese ones are right-side up. Curious how that worked out..momehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991056361909324844noreply@blogger.com