in japanese and writing

お　げんき　です　か？
in japanese

o genki desu ka?
in tagalog and writing

kamusta ka?

hinamori amu,

in japanese and writing

げんき　です　か。。。

in japanese

genki desu ka…

in filipino and writing

ok lang ako…

Surely not about to go native on us now are you, Mr. Hinamori, or is it Mr. Amu?  Japanese interrogative particle ka can here be easily seen in Filipino tagalog expression kamusta ka “how are you?”  Likewise evident “ok, aok” in customary response thereto has already been rather conclusively shown to originate, through American slang, from Niger-Congo W. Atlantic Wolof waaw ka “yea verily!”

n.b. Philippine epichoric kamusta < colonial Spanish ¿Cómo está? “How are you?”

2.  Thus in similar fashion lang < regional Scots variation “lang” cf. ex musa Robert Burns “Auld Lang Syne” 1788

Japanese interrogative particle ka can here be easily seen in Japane tagalog
in filipino tagalog this is - ok

hinamori amu - 10 November 2008 10:29 PM

in japanese and writing

お　げんき　です　か？
in japanese

o genki desu ka?
in tagalog and writing

kamusta ka?

hinamori amu,

how on earth do you type japanese characters?!?

just wondering.

shiro - 08 January 2009 11:15 AM

how on earth do you type japanese characters?!?

just wondering.

I seem to have relatively moderate success with the painstaking copy & paste method of encoded character entry.

Japanese interrogative particle ka can here be easily seen in Japane tagalog
in filipino tagalog this is - ok

But certainly not in blessed Kyoto, Japan:

1.　どちらへ　dochirahe colloquial expression “How are you?”

2.　お元気ですか　o-genki desu ka more polite or formal greeting “How are you (doing)?”

i would ask my cousin, but he’s not on during these hours. then again…from what i read, you corrected him on a mistake. lol.

thanks for the info.

Greetings, true friend shiro, my favorite topics include Japanese festivals & religion, sports & recreation and physical geography & natural history of this Far Eastern archipelago!

bandito - 08 January 2009 11:49 AM

shiro - 08 January 2009 11:15 AM

how on earth do you type japanese characters?!?

just wondering.

I

seem to have relatively moderate success with the copy & paste method of encoded character entry.

success in not just the cut/paste method, but in the translation and ability to put in form that can be understood.

bandito - 08 January 2009 03:20 PM

Greetings, true friend shiro, my favorite topics include Japanese festivals & religion, sports & recreation and physical geography & natural history of this Far Eastern archipelago!

wow…i’m making friends already! lol

bandito - 08 January 2009 11:49 AM

shiro - 08 January 2009 11:15 AM

how on earth do you type japanese characters?!?

just wondering.

I seem to have relatively moderate success with the copy & paste method of encoded character entry.

doesn’t work with my computer…turns up as squares and other weird-looking symbols.

LukeJavan8 - 08 January 2009 04:44 PM

success in not just the cut/paste method, but in the translation and ability to put in form that can be understood.

Ah flattery, flattery—what true shining path to unlimited success!

shiro - 09 January 2009 12:02 PM

doesn’t work with my computer…turns up as squares and other weird-looking symbols.

The squares indicate that your computer isn’t set up to foreign languages. If you go to your Control Panel, there should be a icon, “Add/Remove Programs”, where you can activate it there.

finally!!! thanks, Sean.

a wolf???