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>One word that's caught the Massachusetts-based company's attention is "senpai" (also romanized as "sempai"). Merriam-Webster has noticed sempai, and everyone using the phrase online to denote wanted attention from another person.
>mfw normies still don't know about desu
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Normalfags were a mistake
nice anime or manga discussion
What the fuck Merriam-Webster. You can't just literally steal a word from a different language and call it English in the 21st century. That shit doesn't fly anymore. Not only that but their given definition is so off the mark it makes me contemplate suicide.
Are you implying that it's the current year?
>ragecomic
>imgflip
>meme text
>ann
Lurk for 2 years before posting.
But I've been here since 2009.
Your brain is not.
It can't be that bad, right?
fuck off retard
Whether it's English or not isn't up to Merriam-Webster. Their only role in the whole thing is to chronicle the language.
It's up to people who speak English. If it's spreading around the English speaking community, then that means that it's becoming a part of the English language, whether the dictionaries acknowledge it or not.
Tell that to tycoon moron.
Merriam-Webster documents the lexicon that is the English language. If it is used by English speakers and is understood in context by a significant minority of the population it is by definition part of the lexicon.
Enjoy your ban.
So literally something English has done for ages?
The amount of normalfags using Japanese words is fucking stupid. It's like they're trying make fun of weeaboos but end up sounding even more obnoxious.
What definition? The one you made up for them in your head? They seem to have a detailed and informed understanding of the word its roots and the memes that surround it.
Source actual fucking website
merriam-webster.com
>understood in context by a significant minority of the population
I doubt most people would understand what senpai means, meme or no meme.
>English
You mean every human language in the history of human languages. Languages taking words from other languages is something that's always occurred and will always occur.
>wordfilter makes it into a dictionary
Oh wait, this is ANN
Disregard.
THE ERA OF SEMPAI IS UPON US
>minority=most people
Clearly my friend, you are a moron.
ANN only becomes cancer when they do opinion pieces. They aren't bad for actual news.
English is practically made of loan works from other languages, and for those who don't know, there are countless English loan words in Japanese.
fake and gay
Sage
Literal forced meme.
Might as well have more wordfilters. Filter all the tumbr/twitter nigspeak into real words
You don't understand. Senpai only exists online as slang because of the worldfilter that hiroshima placed on twitter nigspeak that changed senpai to sempai
Forgot the name, but I found an English dictionary that had "ianfu" in it.
>senpai
should have used ohayou instead.
...
>minority
Fuck, I thought it said majority ;w;
announcing your sage is against the rules, friend
good job retard
Mods don't even know what sage is.
>muh rules
fuck off, retard
Nice fecesbook tier pic nigger.
>mfw there are probably people who legitimately 100% believe this statement to be correct
Remember to sage and report.
>sempai
STOP
IT'S senpai
SENPAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God I hate weebs
>pic
>normies
Kill yourself.
Why is this fucking garbage still up? Is this the state of Sup Forums in 2016?
Check this senpai.
>sempai
>people are going to start saying it like that
Fuck. They're doing this on purpose.
newshits don't know how to sage
>;w;
Kill yourself already OP.
Baka desu senpai.
It's センパイ.
All y'all sempai haters just don't understand phonemes.
>センパイ
Exactly! It's not セmパイ
Actually, it's 先輩.
>The meme gained traction in 2012, especially on Tumblr. It got an additional boost when popular YouTuber PewDiePie began using the phrase regularly in his videos.
Wow, the Japanese have been using a meme word in their language and they probably don't even know Pewdiepie invented it!
That's what it sounds like in japanese though.
you can type it as sempai on most IMEs though. And pronouncing ん before a p* or b* syllable makes it sound more like an 'mm' sound anyways, so the 'senpai' spelling is misleading.
Congratulations, you've just realised that English is the most mongrel language in existence.
Kill yourself.
>what is Hepburn
attention sempai haters
ん or ン
en.wikipedia.org
>[n] (before n, t, d, r, ts, z, ch and j )
>[m] (before m, p and b )
You don't really understand Japanese.
Except... you know... Japanese...
>tumblr and literal who in charge of once again ruining things that you could think impossible to ruin.
This is "epic" all over again.
Making both correct.
>...
get out of Sup Forums
least japonesia has the good sense to have a separate set of characters for the words they stole.
>ITT:butthurt weebs
You should be glad there are nip words added to the english dictionary because in the inevitable future Japan as a nation will die off because the people don't fuck a lot.
I know what you mean, but you still need to go to bed, Gilgamesh.
How is this Sup Forums related in any way?
>[ũ͍] (before vowels, palatal approximants (y), consonants h, f, s, sh and w)
Wikipedia, always a trusted source of totally not bullshit
>nip words
>senpai - means someone relatively senior to you(age/experience/profession/etc.)
>in webster it means notice me"
Wow, wonder why some people will get angry.
The most active threads on Sup Forums that are not generals are not related to Sup Forums.
No it doesn't. They spell it using "ん".
Just look at the motherfucking OP, sage and report.
Am I still allowed to ironically use senpai on Sup Forums?
And that justifies this thread being here how?
>Implying that that line isn't correct
>Implying that you know better than wikipedia
>implying I don't know that language phoneme translation is a quagmire.
>Implying you can pronounce ũ͍ properly and know what it fucking sounds like.
It doesn't. It's just how it works here.
I think he's trying to tell you to look at the disease, not the symptom
>>>/anywherebuthere/
try
>>>/reddit/
Try to pronounce senpai and sempai, the two have 2 different sounds.
Then listen to what the japanese says, and you'll hear seNpai.
Also add that,
>senpai
>meaning notice me
>add slang words into common dictionary
the fuck wrong with you america
>Japanese is a nasal language
>both n and m sounds are produced by the cutting off of air in the nasal
it's both, desu
>>senpai
>>meaning notice me
That doesn't even make sense, isn't the meme "will senpai notice me" or some variation of it?
Yes, and ん is exactly equal to english n, so you are of course 100% correct, you magnificent human bean.
>implying な and ま are the same
We already covered this read before posting next time.
It's a meme entry for a meme dictionary. A memetionary, to coin a portmanteau. Buy an Oxford.
>implying the n sound in な makes the same n sound in ん, particularly when ん is proceeded by another consonant
>implying it's not
こんなバカ本当にばかかな
>に
wouldn't that be の?
If you listen to people speaking, or even speak it at all, you will find very quickly that n and m are very similar, at least before syllables such as ぱ.
>Buy an Oxford.
The one that chose some emoticon as word of the year?
IMO the definition they choose should reflect how it is used in english, which may differ from the japanese meaning
I basically agree here, but to be fair I'd like to point out that M-W is considered one of the most "progressive" or "descriptivist" dictionaries out there [citation needed]
Listen here you kisama! If you don't fuck off, me and my user-tachi are going to owari you. Fucking faggot yatsu.
>will notice me notice me?
different people pronounce it differently
>What the fuck Merriam-Webster. You can't just literally steal a word from a different language and call it English in the 21st century.
en.wikipedia.org
Yes, that difference is exactly what I'm trying to prove exists.
>We will leave to see the ages where actual teenage girls talk about their senpai
baka desu senpai
>it makes me contemplate suicide.
You mean it makes you contemplate Seppuku? (Merriam-Webster 2017)
Or maybe you mean contemplate Sudoku? (Merriam-Webster 2020)?
Or maybe you want to become an hero (Merriam-Webster 2024)?
>an hero becomes actual English
full circle if I've ever seen one
At least it's an actual word.
the 2020+ versions are more likely to just be skull emoji