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01-25-2008, 09:28 PM
Regarding the usage of onii-chan/onee-chan...
In anime, small children seem to often use this to address a person in their teens or early twenties, i.e. still young enough as to concievably be a sibling. Does this actually happen? Or is it just an anime'ism?
Also, in "Shakugan no Shana", there are two male characters about 16 years old who address an adult friend of theirs as "Marugori-neesan" (roughly, I think, 'Big sister Margery"). It could concievably fit with my first paragraph since the adult character looks to be about in her late twenties--not too big a stretch, I guess, for the sibling thing. Hey, I have a sister that's ten years older than me :P , and a brother that's fourteen older than I (who was just recently in Japan, lucky bastard).
Whatever the case is, the consensus is that Gaijin should not use onee-chan on a Japanese girl? Ever? How about onii-chan? Or using san instead of chan?
"The trouble with trying to make something idiot proof is that idiots are so smart." ~A corollary to Murphy's Law
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Originally Posted by noodle
But, that's always f-ed up individuals that kill in secluded areas up high in the mountains. Thats neither the army nor the governments agenda! I hope those people rott in hell, but an army or government shouldn't be judged by psycho individuals.
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