Hentai is a terrific and WRONG word for porn used by americans and such. Japanese never use "hentai" to refer at porn. Imho we shouldn't have it.
Hentai means pervert or perverted doesn't it? What do the Japanese use for the word porn if the have one? Just curious, not looking for a replacement word.
"ero" is the word they use for it
"Ero" I guess...Wraith said:
Hentai means pervert or perverted doesn't it? What do the Japanese use for the word porn if the have one? Just curious, not looking for a replacement word.
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MugiMugi has beaten me by few seconds...
whenever a guy is sneaking a girl's room, or when they run into weird sutiations, girls go "HENTAI!!!! >0<;;"
and you go "hentai?"
and you go "hentai?"
Does it matter? For me personally, I don't care.
It's not "wrong", any more than their reappropriations of our words are wrong for them. It's just not the original word anymore, any more than "マスター" for "bartender" or "マンション" for "apartment".syaoran-kun said:
Hentai is a terrific and WRONG word for porn used by americans and such. Japanese never use "hentai" to refer at porn. Imho we shouldn't have it.
It does make a difference: after only "moe" and "imouto", "hentai" is the #3 top search keyword people use to find the site.
It's not strictly equivalent to rating:e--there's a lot of stuff we generally rate "explicit" that I wouldn't call porn--but I might try just making rating:e add a fake "hentai" tag to the title/URLs. Probably 90% of rating:e posts would be tagged hentai if we used the tag consistently, so it's accurate enough for people googling, but not worth going through and trying to make it consistent.
I guess another philosophy would be to say that stuff that wouldn't be called hentai should be rating:q anyway. That was the basic rationale behind setting post #47676 to Q: it's nudity, but it's completely innocent...
Besides エロ there's also 18禁 (juuhachi kin) , アダルト (adult), and 成人向け (seijin muke).
Using "Hentai" as a specific genre, or not - To me, is only an identifier, as far as I understand the rationale, the general consensus ex-Japan labelling any sort of ero as "Hentai".
That is fine.
But following the norm would only increase the use of the label, which is linguistically incorrect, so unless somehow the Japanese themselves starts to label ero-hon or ero-shin as hentai-hon/hentai-shin ... then maybe the labelling would justifiable (like "Tsundere"). For now, no Japanese wotaku's' I know of, would use Hentai as a genre.
So... You can be wholly specific to a point - Just take out "Hentai",
-> or to take a valued but biased stand - Leave it there, and leave the ignorant to their language rot.
That is fine.
But following the norm would only increase the use of the label, which is linguistically incorrect, so unless somehow the Japanese themselves starts to label ero-hon or ero-shin as hentai-hon/hentai-shin ... then maybe the labelling would justifiable (like "Tsundere"). For now, no Japanese wotaku's' I know of, would use Hentai as a genre.
So... You can be wholly specific to a point - Just take out "Hentai",
-> or to take a valued but biased stand - Leave it there, and leave the ignorant to their language rot.
If you believe imported words whose uses are different than in the original language are "wrong", you have a serious misunderstanding of language.
Whether "hentai" is wrong or not is irrelevant to OP's question (it is fine for me as long people understand each other, btw). Now, I think rating:e is sufficient and "hentai" comes from the Department of Redundancy Department. What could be"hentai" and not rating:e?
Like I said, we're already showing it as a pseudo-tag for all rating:e posts.
Noble
Is "Hentai" tag really necessary?