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Why are certain wrestlers only ever mentioned in caps? KENTA? KUSHIDA, etc? Am I missing the joke? Are there very involved acronyms that I'm unaware of?
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Sep 18, 2020 00:06
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Writer Cath posted:Why are certain wrestlers only ever mentioned in caps? KENTA? KUSHIDA, etc? its a japan thing
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Sep 18, 2020 00:06
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Lamuella posted:I hate to reference it because David Starr is a piece of poo poo, but Eddie's interview on We The Independent distinctly gave me the impression that he and Hero basically resolved their bad blood by monetising it. They got out the actual ill feeling, then toured it in CZW, Chikara, and ROH. The truest carny way to make up
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Sep 18, 2020 00:07
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Writer Cath posted:Why are certain wrestlers only ever mentioned in caps? KENTA? KUSHIDA, etc? The explanation I was given for why Taka did it is that its apparently considered arrogant to place greater emphasis on the first name over the family name, and doing so in caps even more so I don't know how accurate that is, especially since Taka lifted his kayfabe surnane from Sasuke, whose real name is Masa Michinoku
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Sep 18, 2020 00:12
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Writer Cath posted:Why are certain wrestlers only ever mentioned in caps? KENTA? KUSHIDA, etc? KENTA, shoot name Kenta Kobayashi, stylized his name that way to differentiate himself from Kenta Kobashi. I don't know the story behind KUSHIDA, but wrestlers stylizing their name in romaji like that is a common thing, plus it looks cool on a match graphic.
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Sep 18, 2020 00:19
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they like the letters to all be the same height. the way it looks edit to say this is 'real' and not 'farting around' or specific to one person or anything. that's why they use capital english letters Cavauro fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sep 18, 2020 00:20
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it means you gotta yell it if you say it out loud
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Sep 18, 2020 00:25
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Seams posted:it means you gotta yell it if you say it out loud Correct.
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Sep 18, 2020 00:33
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For the capitalization part, how much of it is just westerners overthinking things? Like TAKA looks cooler than Taka so that’s what he writes it as. The fact that it looks weird to native English speakers and might need an explanation might not even have occurred to him when deciding to go romanji. Like how westerners have dumbass Chinese calligraphy tats that makes no sense to people that can read it but it looks cool.
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Sep 18, 2020 02:36
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thats what i said dog
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Sep 18, 2020 02:44
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It's not a wrestling specific thing, it's pretty common in Japan in general with romanized words.
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Sep 18, 2020 04:24
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If you look at the tracklist of a Japanese music album, they occasionally do that with the track titles too. I believe this is in the vast majority of cases an entirely stylistic choice and comes from the fact that the Japanese writing system does not have upper and lowercase letters. You can, however, write any Japanese word using one of two syllabaries, hiragana (used to write all Japanese words - unless you know the kanji (logograph) for it) and katakana (generally used to write all loan words, eg. also all Western names). For example, Kazuchika Okada’s name in hiragana is おかだかずちか (o-ka-da-ka-zu-chi-ka). However, he chooses to write it in the more angular (and some might say cooler) katakana, オカダ・カズチカ. This literally does nothing else to the name than make it look different. As an example of a different way to do it, Minoru Suzuki chooses to use a combination of kanji and hiragana: 鈴木 みのる. So - that leads to my conclusion that because you can use these scripts sort of interchangeably, the Japanese have decided you don’t need to care too much about the capitalization of words written in the Latin script either. Just choose whatever you think looks cooler. A funnier explanation is that as far as I’ve understood, the Japanese generally tend to know the Latin alphabet better in either lowercase or uppercase. So maybe that himbo SANADA only knows capital letters lol Edit: also, the Japanese writing system is one entire nightmare and a half of another, and only huge loving morons (like me) try to learn it a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sep 18, 2020 05:02
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how many things in graphic design in native english are in all caps all caps is universal this is known
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Sep 18, 2020 08:39
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CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
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Sep 18, 2020 10:13
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We know how Vince has an insane level of control over scripts, promos, and storylines, but how much control does he have over in-ring action? Does he micro-manage/cript the matches as well? I had heard something from somewhere that said that modern WWE agents are doing this nowadays, but does the senile fucker in charge have any say? Oh, and I am not talking about stuff like "the curb stomp is banned", or "no blood till the main event" style things. I am asking if Vince goes "first you lock up, then the first guy hits a dropkick, and the second guy counters with a suplex ... and then the first guy wins with a roll up" etc.
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Sep 18, 2020 11:00
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I don't think he micromanages every single match due to simple time constraints. Dude's apparently a workaholic, but WWE are putting on like a million matches a week so there just isn't enough time in the day. Also WWE occasionally manages to deliver a legit good match, which is further evidence against his involvement.
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Sep 18, 2020 11:12
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Cody (Rhodes) and Maria (Takeda) are the only wrestlers I can think of follow traditional capitalision rules with their romaji names in Japan. The capitalisation thing also causes a bit of confusion with the Asukas. In the west it's Asuka for Kana and ASUKA for Veny but it's the opposite in Japan. (Well, ASUKA means Kana and the other one is usually written in kanji but romanizes her own name as Asuka)
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Sep 18, 2020 11:35
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Memphis did this too, kinda, Jerry Lawler had his own show called The Jerry Lawler Show, he'd use it to promote upcoming events for the territory. The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. Here's a question. What's the fastest a wrestler has gone from debuting to doing a face or heel turn ? Like first week in the company, they're a face, less than month later (or sooner) a heel ? And I wouldn't count gimmick changes like Seven going from supernatural pedophile to Dustin Runnels at his debut.
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Sep 18, 2020 13:16
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. Gail Kim did it in... 5 weeks. Won the WWE Women's Title in her debut, lost it 4 weeks later, and almost immediately turned heel. I'm sure there's much faster, but this was the first one that came to mind.
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Sep 18, 2020 13:30
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. off the top of my head kevin owens in nxt opened a takeover a face and ended it a heel by stabbing sami zayn in the back
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Sep 18, 2020 13:31
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. Anna Jay debuted as a blue chip babyface on Dynamite, got a sympathetic video package and everything, lost her debut match to Abadon and ended the segment being recruited in to the Dark Order.
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Sep 18, 2020 13:42
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. kurt angle
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Sep 18, 2020 13:49
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Terry Taylor debuted in the WWF as a face and turned heel in his first or second match, which was all part of the same TV taping.
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Sep 18, 2020 14:09
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. KENTA in NJPW debuted in the G1 as 'Katsuyori Shibata's Soulmate' and ended it joining the Bullet Club kicking Shibata in the face.
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Sep 18, 2020 14:20
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. Benoit, Malenko, Guererro and Saturn debuted in WWF on January 31st and turned heel by beating up Cactus Jack on February 7.
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Sep 18, 2020 14:37
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Artelier posted:off the top of my head kevin owens in nxt opened a takeover a face and ended it a heel by stabbing sami zayn in the back Hell yeah.
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Sep 18, 2020 14:43
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Bad Wolf posted:The sad part is I can't tell if that last part is a joke or not. Its real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3usmMSnnw
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Sep 18, 2020 16:34
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That's a - as the cool kids call it these days - "Yikeseroo".
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Sep 18, 2020 16:45
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karmicknight posted:Anna Jay debuted as a blue chip babyface on Dynamite, got a sympathetic video package and everything, lost her debut match to Abadon and ended the segment being recruited in to the Dark Order. that was her second match on dynamite not her debut
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Sep 18, 2020 17:06
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And she’s still a baby face. 
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Sep 18, 2020 19:36
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BrigadierSensible posted:We know how Vince has an insane level of control over scripts, promos, and storylines, but how much control does he have over in-ring action? https://twitter.com/wwe/status/1296794379538006024?s=21
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Sep 18, 2020 20:35
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You'd think WWE wouldn't want to promote itself with anything that reminds people of being lowered into the ring.
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Sep 18, 2020 21:03
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Have they ever even acknowledged the details of that night, except maybe on the PPV itself? I've always seen "A tragic accident resulted in Owen Hart's death" without specifying what happened. Sooner or later there's going to be more people that don't know anything about it than people that do. Also it's completely in character for them to just power ahead ignoring something inconvenient.
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Sep 18, 2020 21:25
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:Cody (Rhodes) and Maria (Takeda) are the only wrestlers I can think of follow traditional capitalision rules with their romaji names in Japan. Gamma and T-Hawk as well but i know you're not a dragon gate guy. on a similar note my absolute favorite typographical romanization is "brother" YASSHI which is always written just like that quotation marks included
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Sep 18, 2020 23:20
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Halloween Jack posted:You'd think WWE wouldn't want to promote itself with anything that reminds people of being lowered into the ring.
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Sep 19, 2020 03:36
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Thauros posted:Gamma and T-Hawk as well but i know you're not a dragon gate guy. on a similar note my absolute favorite typographical romanization is "brother" YASSHI which is always written just like that quotation marks included I should have remembered T-Hawk. There's also Sareee. AKINO's heel alter ego goes by noki-A too
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Sep 19, 2020 06:45
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A) What do you think of Bob Backlund's crazy schtick from the early to mid-90s? I actually enjoyed it. 2) Please explain 2006 Tatanka. This is not a question. D) Has Titan Towers in Stamford, Connecticut ever been accessible to the public? I remember trying to at least see the lobby way back in 1999 and being denied.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:08
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Pope Corky the IX posted:A) What do you think of Bob Backlund's crazy schtick from the early to mid-90s? I actually enjoyed it. I have a fondness for it. It was more the dumb bits he'd do, Crossface Chicken Winging Arnold Skaaland or whatever, that made him seem like a proper loony.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:19
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I love crazy heel Backlund and I like the idea OSW Review recently had where he kept the title until the Rumble/Wrestlemania so they could properly build Diesel up.
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Sep 19, 2020 18:43
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Wasn't Tatanka a case of 'brought him in for a nostalgia show, worked with Angle, Angle made him look great so hired because they didn't realise Kurt carried him'?
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Sep 19, 2020 19:17
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