Japanese Help Questions/Translations

[eezy1]

could someone tell me what the difference between the kanji desire-yokkyuu



and the kanji also for desire-yokubou.



What is the difference?

[tetsume]

I´m so sorry for that, but could anyone hepl me with translation of that please? ...
tetsume wa watashitachino hontono DOTER no youni omotteimasu.

- i¨m learning japanese and was in japan...but i´m not sure about that translation...i know that´s pretty easy japanese, but i have 2 option how i can translate it so I would like to know Your opinion...thank You so much for answering...

[StonerPenguin]

Originally Posted by eezy1

could someone tell me what the difference between the kanji desire-yokkyuu



and the kanji also for desire-yokubou.



What is the difference?

The latter (欲望) is much more sexual I do believe... as in it means "lust". However, Masaegu said 欲求 also carries a sexual connotation. I'm not a native speaker though so this is just a (semi) educated guess

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by tetsume

I´m so sorry for that, but could anyone hepl me with translation of that please? ...
tetsume wa watashitachino hontono DOTER no youni omotteimasu.

- i¨m learning japanese and was in japan...but i´m not sure about that translation...i know that´s pretty easy japanese, but i have 2 option how i can translate it so I would like to know Your opinion...thank You so much for answering...

I'm assuming they wrote this in romaji because DOTER doesn't exist in Japanese, but it is assuredly dootaa, Japanized "daughter."

So "We think of you [Tetsume] as our own daughter."

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by StonerPenguin

The latter (欲望) is much more sexual I do believe... as in it means "lust". However, Masaegu said 欲求 also carries a sexual connotation. I'm not a native speaker though so this is just a (semi) educated guess

I'm still confused. When one gets the tattoo "desire," isn't the entire point to mean "lust" or "sexual desire"? No one gets the tattoo "desire" to mean "I want a new toy train." They get it to imply "yeah, I'm super sexy and I know you want me."

[masaegu]

欲求 = More emphasis on the wanting s/t now. Shorter-term desires.

欲望 = More emphasis on the longing. Longer-term desires.

This was posted without any intentions of helping someone with a tattoo idea. Just answering a langugae question.

[chiappa]

cool thread! my question is simple but very important to me=)

What do you call a tentacle of an octopus in Japanese?
The only definition I could find in the dictionary is: 触手　(しょくしゅ）but i heard from someone it would be called just 蛸の足　(たこのあし).
whaddaya think? thanks a lot!

[masaegu]

Originally Posted by chiappa

cool thread! my question is simple but very important to me=)

What do you call a tentacle of an octopus in Japanese?
The only definition I could find in the dictionary is: 触手　(しょくしゅ）but i heard from someone it would be called just 蛸の足　(たこのあし).
whaddaya think? thanks a lot!

It isn't a question of what someone thinks. You either know it or don't know it.

In our daily lives, everyone uses あし. Don't use 触手 when discussing octopuses as food; Reserve the term for your biology class.

[tetsume]

KyleGoetz thank You so much...yeah...it´s relly bad, it´s wrote in furigana and for said the truth i didn´t gat why they so suddenly started to write me in furigana...they wrote me before in kanjis and kana...but...can´t do with it nothing......they are so kind, aren´t they?......i had a problem with thid DOTER...if it were written in katakana it would be ok, but in this form i must admit i reallywasn´t sure about the meaning of it...i wasn´t sure if it is not an englist word, imean normal english tern, not rewrite one... so again thank You so much...

[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by tetsume

KyleGoetz thank You so much...yeah...it´s relly bad, it´s wrote in furigana and for said the truth i didn´t gat why they so suddenly started to write me in furigana...they wrote me before in kanjis and kana...but...can´t do with it nothing......they are so kind, aren´t they?......i had a problem with thid DOTER...if it were written in katakana it would be ok, but in this form i must admit i reallywasn´t sure about the meaning of it...i wasn´t sure if it is not an englist word, imean normal english tern, not rewrite one... so again thank You so much...

I think you're getting confused. Furigana is the small hiragana or katakana written above a kanji to show you how to pronounce the kanji.