"Hari-Kiri"

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•08/01/2004 10:07 AM (UTC) •

dirtystankbutter Wrote:
MK247 it is not even worth your time and effort to try to get people to change there opinions. Hara Kari= A real slang Japanese term for STOMACH CUT. I called my buddy in Japan and he said the words hara hari are used by peasents or lower class people. There is another name they use to mean the same thing But my Japanese sucks. We as americans use the word suicide. In japan it was done to save face. A real Samurai could never face defeat. So they killed themselves by there own blade instead of the enemy killing them. So the MK way is not a traditional Samurai death, But it is the american HARA KARI. To take your self out before the enemy can. The words are used inplace of the word suicide. Why because if they used that word in america and a person bought the game and killed themself, the game would be banned. The MK staff is just being carefull. Besides not all things translate from Japanese to english the same way. If I were to say SATAN or THE DEVIL here in america it would mean, A fallen angel from heaven. In Japan it would mean one of hundreds of there devils satans or demons or oni. It would be like me saying GHOST here. If you want a for instance think street fighter. AKUMA OR GOUKI in Japan it means a unreal type of person taken over by a demon. An OGER. In america it translates wrong, it means magnificant demon or THE SATAN. We are getting into an Opinion battle for the wrong reason. The guy that started this thread does not like the way MK is useing the term Hara Kari. Thats his opinion because he like the Japanese traditional Samurai. We like it because we get to do suicides and have it called something close to the Japanese words STOMACH CUT. And we see the words meaning to take yourself out. It's just Opinions. I like this idea no matter what they call it. They could say CRANBERRY JUICE COCKTAIL DEATH and I would still think it was smooth as butter. But get one thing straight I love to hate MK bashers and If you attack my friend MK247 after he posts his opinion, I will be right there to back him up. So let's just do what he said from the start. Take it for what it is. Now I am going back to my normal thread where everyone is gald to see you, and not many people there are negative. DSB