Saturday, December 01, 2007

My First Manga In-Joke



It's Full Metal Baby!!

-- SJ

9 comments:

Heather said...

Giggle. Giggle. Snort. That is too funny!!!

Booker said...

Hahahah!

Actually, that is called Cosplaying. Way to start them out young ;-)

the Joneses said...

What is called "Cosplaying"? Wearing your brother's snow boot?

-- SJ

Barbara said...

Hey...at least she's wearing the boot in the right season! Daniel always wore his in the summer! LOL!

Booker said...

Cosplay

the Joneses said...

Ah! I am educated now, thank you. What's most interesting is that it's a Japanese convention to create a descriptive word by combining the first syllables of two longer words. That's pretty cool.

-- SJ

Anonymous said...

Where else do you think the term originated?

Seriously, now, that's an awesome picture. But I don't remember him as wearing pink. ;)

the Joneses said...

No, I know cosplay is Japanese. What I was saying is that they have the habit of combining two words to create a one new descriptive one. Americans don't do that. We use acronymns.

-- SJ

Anonymous said...

Yes, I realized right after that I had forgotten an emoticon. *sigh*

Think, though, how different things would be were the military to use the Japanese convention.