Hey Yuta! Question, you listed insults and I noticed you used the word baka. However, I'm curious about the difference in implication between baka and aho. From what I understand, baka is just calling someone stupid/idiot and aho seems to be similar to using "retard"? Maybe you could make a video explaining that and some other words with similar meanings? Great video though! Loved the correct usage of the fuck word. :)
Your name says "dont look at my pic"... What do I do?? yup, you guessed it roflmao. I'm a badass EDIT: Wait, did you put your face on jojo siwas head??
@@nonleetee For everything which is annoying like a mosquito. For instance, when your cell phone fall on the ground you can say "porca puttana" (literally means "whore pig").
As someone who studies Russian and learned Spanish from actual Spaniards, watching him describe what he calls "swear words" and "insults" is like watching an Eskimo describe the lush arctic vegetation.
@@navidryanrouf441 What the Japanese consider "insults" wouldn't even register as such to either of those nationalities, just as tundra shrubs and moss wouldn't register as "lush vegetation" to someone used to actual forests.
It's done in some languages with tone of voice and some politeness increasing words. I'm sure you've heard someone say, in a cheery voice, "Would you kindly go fuck yourself, please?" It's not actually polite, but it's a lot more polite than saying "go fuck yourself" and I think the effect is the same in Japanese
I mean " you a bad bitch" isn't mean but "you a bitch" is mean. Kinda the same thing like "you the shit" is not mean but "you are shit" is mean and grammy and tone is very important, like i mention in the shit sentences one word can change the meaning.
Politely swearing is something in all languages. You can diss someone insanely without ever actually using any harsh words depending on how you construct your sentence+the context. If you are speaking to someone of authority very casually and in a dismissive tone intentionally, that’s incredibly insulting even if you never say anything substantially mean.
I think Kuso is a lot closer to "crap" with how Japanese use it, it's not a polite word but wouldn't illicit as much of a shock response if used in normal situations. Just my guess.
Yes because we don’t have the concept of swearing or cursing in Japanese there is no stigma associated with the words that is same as English or other languages.
I've taught swear words in a language class not only because it's interesting, but also because it's important to know when someone's swearing at you. Could be danger
exists also in german but more to insult someone there is the method you talk extra polite but with an disgisted undertone often used by students that talk with their hated teacher you basicly put an extra distance betwean you and the hatet person to make clear you dislike them while enabeling them of getting you fired or to detention even if these people are superior you steal their power with polite words and like this you decrease them
@@YukiTheOkami Why swear politely? It ain't a true swear unless done rudely. As in, to quote a Houston Texans player shouting to an Indianapolis Colts player, "FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER"!!!!!
In English it's also possible to swear politely with no swear words, as well as use swear words in polite context. It all comes down to the fact that Japanese people aren't as tough as Westerners or even Russians, who use words like "hui", "pizda", "yebat" or "blyat" all the time. I called a Japanese woman "bakayaro" once, she got literally heart-wounded, only by hearing that word, and now, she doesn't even accept my apologies for calling her so. You can call a woman in Japanese as 「整理付き」and in English as "period spitter", which would in both cases not be derived from foul language, but be offensive to women nontheless.
"swear politely" is really a nice perk of languages that have several politeness level :D I can speak Javanese and it has that same feature as Japanese, like, different vocabulary, conjugation, word connectors... and yes it is fun to insults with polite words because it kinda mess with your perception of the language.
My personal favorite is “fuzaken ja ne”, meaning “you gotta be f**king kidding me”. I heard a man shouting this at a ward office and the responder was like “fuzakete masen!” (I am not f**king around) in a polite way. Thought it was hilarious 😂
This is a great lesson because it not only teaches people how to swear in Japanese, it also teaches them what words to avoid saying if they don't want to be insulting. A lesson for both audiences!
@@absoshpriyadas1459 So? English version got a lot of things wrong, like names of Tenshinhan, Kulilin and Freeza, mistaking the title of Turtle Hermit, _Muten Rōshi_ as his name and so on.
@@absoshpriyadas1459 So? English version got a lot of things wrong, like names of Tenshinhan, Kulilin and Freeza, mistaking the title of Turtle Hermit, _Muten Rōshi_ as his name and so on.
I just learned two of these words from my fav anime : temee (from Tokyo ghoul) and kuso (from Tokyo revengers). I came here to investigate whether these words are actually exist in anime or not. Thanks for this new knowledge
“Kuso fakku de gozaimasu.” I laughed so hard because it’s so freaking savage. xD The other ways of swearing comes off to me as just an irritated or angry person picking a fight, but politely swearing feels like that person is so, SO VERY angry that they are swearing in situations where they usually don’t. xD
Yes. "I regret to inform you, Sir, that the products your company sent us were utter horseshit, as I believe they say in the colonies. Please refrain from any business with us again. Thank you."
in German the relationship to swear words changes a lot from region to region. I'm from Vienna and nobody will take you seriously if you don't think of some creative swear words. When you just spout the standard "Scheiss", "Shit", "Gefickt" people won't think too much of it and forget all about it the next day. If you wanna leave an impression you gotta "Herst G'schissena dane Muda hot bei mia den Klodeckel unten g'lassen" I think people will remember that ;D Also you gotta end every sentence with "Oida" ^^
Swearwords reflect cultural taboo's. Probably why there are so many sexual swearwords in English is the historical influence of christianity. I think its the same with most European cultures.
In Dutch a lot of them are diseases as well. Also most countries have swears (or rather curses) based on religion, either referring to unholy creatures or making light of holy ones
I don't think that it is a product of Christianity, but more of a result of Victorian mores. In the Middle Ages, where religion and politics were intertwined, they would use lots of sexual and crassy words without any problem. Swearwords were in fact associated with religious profanity, as using God's name in a disrespectful manner (like, "I swear upon God's cunt that..."). Shadiversity made an excelent video talking about swearing in medieval Europe (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sAsyyBqSQ3k.html).
'Fuck' in particular is offensive because it originally referred to violent rape, or raping a woman for the purpose of causing damage/attacking her. It was viewed as the lowest, most offensive act, because this form of rape was not to satisfy an urge, or to procreate, but purely to cause the deepest damage possible to a woman. And honestly, knowing the actual meaning, I'm shocked that people are so casual about using it today. Worthless society we have nowadays.
@@jerotoro2021 "Fuck" DOESN'T mean that anymore, though, so what exactly is the problem? This is a false equivalence. If I found out tomorrow, for example, that the English word "and" has its roots in genocide, that wouldn't make me think the use of "and" reflects a moral failing of people today.
Quite interesting as always. In Bulgarian the word baba (with a shorter "a" at the end) means old woman or grandmother and it is not offensive at all. People would call their grandmother baba. Also I like that there are some similarities between Bulgarian and Japanese like we also rarely use "you" in our sentences. In Bulgarian you don't need to have a subject in your sentence. In English you have to say "It is raining", whereas in Bulgarian the correct way of saying the same thing would be just "Raining". In a lot of cases saying "you" can sound like you are singling out the person or are being more aggressive. Although it is not considered rude or offensive. We also have a normal and polite way of speaking although it is not as intense as in Japanese. The Bulgarian polite speak usually involves just using the plural form of "you" instead of the single. So you speak to a single person but you address them as though you were speaking to multiple people. It is usually used when speaking to your boss, teacher, doctor or just a stranger / person that you don't really know yet. Sometimes people ask each other if it is ok to speak "in you" (meaning the single form of you). So they are asking if they can drop the polite speak and talk normally. A very interesting topic I think.
In Danish, in theory, we use plural form as a polite way to adress someone. "de" stead of "du" But it is only rarely used on paper, and you sound like an oldtimer it isn't used commonly.
yeah all of those apply to Romanian too, but the baba one here would be pretty rude if you were to just call an old woman on the street baba, you only use it with family
@@CaramidaDeCasa I see how it can be offensive. In Bulgaria if you call a younger woman baba, it would be like you are calling her old and would be rude. But if the woman (no matter the age) has a grandchild she is technically a grandmother so she is a baba and shouldn't be offended. It depends on the woman though. Some are happy to be called that because they are proud that they have a grandchild and it makes others feel old so they don't like it. If the woman is younger it is usually played as a joke.
I've noticed that in Japanese swearing, there's a lot of stuff going on with insulting comparisons. Unlike in my native language - which is Polish - calling people monkeys or dogs seems to be somehow a viable way of insulting. Also, I haven't seen Japanese insult related to sexual organs. I mean... calling people chin-chin or manko would be rather silly than insulting.
Nobody: Yuta: And if you want to learn Japanese with me, I will teach you the kind of Japanese that real life Japanese people today actually speak. I love it though. Never change.
That's so polite... here in The Netherlands we use deceases as curse words a tradition probably derived from Jiddisch due to a large Jewish population in the old days. Jiddisch is one of the few other languages that use deceases as curse words. Wishing each other cancer, typhoid and tuberculosis, etc. or calling each other (parts of) genitalia or racist animal referrals is very popular when it gets heated. On the softer side your got the crazy, ugly, etc. and the nicer animal referrals.
@@MrValgard As I understand it, using anata rather than the person's name or omitting pronouns altogether can be perceived as putting the other person on a different level/rank than you, so it becomes jarring in casual conversation because it can be perceived as the speaker putting the listener on a level _beneath._ However, using anata as this old timey feminine sort of language for a husband or loved person, which is a thing too, then it's perceived as the speaker putting the listener on a level _above._ Something like that anyway, I'm not japanese, just a weeb.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but there’s a typo in the on screen text that would probably benefit with an on screen overlay correction. “Chikushou” is typoed as “chikuhou”.
I literally came into this just cause I was curious and came out of it knowing you can politely curse. Damn we really do learn something new every day I-
