また、明日。

子供に話しているの時の敬称の」お」を加えることについて、説明を提案したいんです。日本で世界の物と大人の物を尊敬は大事ですから敬称の」お」を使うことはその尊敬が子供に見せると思います。大人の時はそんな強意強調は必要がありません。

その説明はどうと思いますか？

ミクジ

PS: did you understand my Japanese? If not can you tell me where I got it wrong?

I meant to say that the reason the honorific prefix is used for children is to instil respect for the world and for things adults believe are worthy of respect.

It’s interesting that 緑is one of the noun-adjectives, while most of the colors are verbal-adjectives (-i adjectives)

There are many theories as to why Japanese people call traffic lights blue… but actually, it’s all about perspective. After all… green is really just a yellowy blue, anyway. the Japanese word for 青 encompasses greens as well.

1) Although it sound apocryphal, a friend of mine actually tried to complement a woman on her colorful dress, and thought that he had heard the word somewhere for “colorful”. Those of you who know Japanese can smell this one coming . . . “Iroppoi fuku wa sutteki desu ne.” Embarrassed twitters all around. Correct translation: “Your sexy dress is really nice.”

2) An Irish friend of mine is named Ruairi. In Japan it is not uncommon to name girls after colors such as Midori and Momo. So when he and his Japanese wife had a daughter, they named her るりこ (るり子), which translated directly would be “Azure-child”. The “Ruri” comes from “瑠璃”,
which is the gemstone lapis lazuli that renaissance artists (who could afford it) crushed up and used as the bright blue pigment in their paintings. Bottom line: now Ruairi and his daughter’s name are pronounced the same, except for the “ko” at the end of her name.

藤色 has the kanji for wisteria. My father has one growing over his garage, and it is indeed a lilac colour. I suppose that wisteria are more common than lilacs in japan, so the colour is named after the local plant

藍色　Rikaichan comes up with ‘indigo’ for the first Kanji and ‘indigo-blue’ when 色 is added to the end. I can’t think of anything memorable for this one.

I liked the prefix and suffix stuff. Can you use -ppoi with things other than colours?

My favourite color is 緑, but I’m also very fond of 茶色、赤とピンク。

Sindyさん - If you are using internet explorer, try clicking on view -> encoding and selecting “Japanese (auto-select).

Oh, I forgot to mention earlier:
Chigusaさん、
Around here, we add “ーさんとか、ー様とか、ーちゃんなど。。。 Please be kind to Our Peterちゃん™. よろしくおねがいします！

Peterさん、

What does it take to get a reply?

My favorite colors most are:

Black黒, Red赤い, Blue青い,Grey灰色, White白い, Green緑, Purple紫色, Yellow黄色,Orangeオレンジ, Gold金, Brown茶色, etc

I like all the colors EXCEPT PINK ピンク yeah I know I’m the only weird and different girl from the rest on this earth! but like I say before I don’t follow everybody’s choice even if it means have the whole Universe against me period! S_R_C

I’m glad you found it useful! And thank you for the Mac user tip, which some PC users may also have to use (set Encoding to Shift_JIS if you are having problems seeing the Japanese!)

Here is an interesting site with a lot more colors! It also has description/explanation for many of them! It is in Japanese, but I hope all of you can find it useful

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~sakamaki/dentouiro.html