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Dome

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• 18 Nov 2005

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What does this mean?

 

hebiichigo

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7 Feb 2005

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• 18 Nov 2005

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"kitaa". Sort of like, "yes!", more literally "(it/he/she/whatever) came (arrived)".
It's used on the net, on message boards like 2chan etc.

 

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Tokyoite

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You are right.
I'm surprised that you know 2chan.

 

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Dome

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Thanks.

So you would answer a question or something with Kitaa?

Like if someone asked you "Do you like to swim?" you would say "Kitaa des"? or something along that lines?

 

hebiichigo

ナイスメルヘン！

7 Feb 2005

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• 19 Nov 2005

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Oh, no.
"kitaa" is like an exclamation, use when something good happens.. it's like, "yes! got it!"
It doesn't actually mean "yes".

If someone asked you a question like that, just say a normal "yes" (hai).

 

Hiroyuki Nagashima

TAN

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18 Jan 2005

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• 19 Nov 2005

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It is one of the ASCII art
"キタ━━━━(゜∀゜)━━━━!"An abbreviated form of
The expression that something emphasizes an appearance / an appearance/surprise/expectation when it occurred.
An origin
In a commercial of "サンテ FX" of the first half of 90's, Yuji Oda places eyewash and depends on having exclaimed with "キターーー".

2ch ー nera used it willingly
Even the public seems to use it recently.

キターとは - はてなキーワード

 

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Dome

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• 19 Nov 2005

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Aw i see,

I studied abit of japense language, and i know "des" means period and "deska"(sp?) means Question Mark.

So does Kitaa the ending of the sentence like that or does it literaly mean "YES!" Not just the !.

 

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TronDD

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• 22 Nov 2005

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Dome said:

I studied abit of japense language, and i know "des" means period and "deska"(sp?) means Question Mark.

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That sounds like Pimsleur talk.

"Desu" does not mean period. It can be used kind of like "is" (the verb "to be"). But, I think, more correctly it is a coupula which is a grammatical thing of it's own.

"ka" ｢か」 can be thought of as a question mark, but really it's a particle, not a punctuation. "no" 「の」 can also be used to make a sentence a question.