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are you ______?

Postby sutekikanojyo » June 12th, 2006 12:40 am

this is a totally random question that popped into my mind while i was mindlessly flipping through my spiral notebook... i know you can say:

Anata wa Piitaa desu ka?

but can you also say:

Piitaa wa anata desku ka?

i suppose the second one would be like saying:

Peter are you?

...but can you use it?
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Postby Jason » June 12th, 2006 12:58 am

Grammatically, they're both fine. But the 2nd one is awkward for the same reason the English would be awkward. Unless you're Yoda or something.
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Postby sutekikanojyo » June 12th, 2006 2:06 am

arigatou ^.^
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Postby Bueller_007 » June 12th, 2006 10:51 am

Jason wrote:Unless you're Yoda or something.

Hahaha.

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Postby sutekikanojyo » June 12th, 2006 8:51 pm

random factoid: i used to be a yoda of sorts ^.~" in like jr hi and early high school all my girl friends would come to me with their boyfriend problems... one of them named me the "relationship yoda" XD that's how i decided to be a psychologist ^.^

...and then they all stopped talking to me at the end of senior year. -.-;{ugh]
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Postby Bueller_007 » June 13th, 2006 6:59 am

sutekikanojyo wrote:random factoid: i used to be a yoda of sorts ^.~" in like jr hi and early high school all my girl friends would come to me with their boyfriend problems... one of them named me the "relationship yoda" XD that's how i decided to be a psychologist ^.^

...and then they all stopped talking to me at the end of senior year. -.-;{ugh]

Unfortunate, that is.

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Postby sutekikanojyo » June 13th, 2006 7:49 am

lol i'll not even get into the whole story for two reasons

1.)it's completely off topic here
2.)it's really irrelevant in almost any case lol ^.~' but hey, they're the ones who didn't want me -.-'''

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^.~'
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Postby Brody » June 13th, 2006 5:24 pm

How does Yoda talk in Japanese? Is he called Yoda-sama? Yoda-chan?

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Postby sutekikanojyo » June 13th, 2006 7:55 pm

lol! :lol: i think it's along the lines of "Yoda wa watshi desu..." lol ^.~'

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