2009-05-03, 06:32 AM
ShiKage Wrote:Yes, but they do not use it in the context that it'd be as if you're trying to degrade someone by calling them a beast. In the context that they tend to use it in anime, it is used as 'dang it.' http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E7%95%9C%E7%...dict=edict
Jisho? If that's what you really rely on for your Japanese, then you are bound to take lots of other things out of context. Because Dictionary isn't everything. If it was that simple, then you could just memorise the dictionary in that language and be pro at it.
Btw, there are people out there who say "ano chikusho" (That beast). Not the usual case I might add.
Then again, due to the vast differences in culture, it's pretty awkward to see English subs sometimes, even Chinese subs (very badly done ones even) translate the language better than English. I've seen a hundred different ways to translate the daily greetings (like itadakimasu, ittekimasu, tada ima), because with English there is no such things that you say everyday.
But dubs are bad, hands down. They MAYBE improving, but still, subs rule