What does Otaku and Oekaki mean?

[Kaola Su]

I don't really know where this should go since I don't even know what they mean, but what does Otaku mean? Also what does Oekaki mean? I know Oekaki has been on a lot drawing websites, like where you go and draw with your mouse and post it up, but that's all I know. I am guessing Otaku has to do with opinions and posting...but I really don't know!

Kaola

[Kwai]

Oekaki = to draw, drawing, an act of drawing in Japanese
Otaku = someone who is really into something, a huge fan, an addict, in this board, anime.

I'm Japanese so :)

[Patronus]

I think Otkau and Oekaki both mean fan, don't they? Like a fan of a show

[DarK DeatH]

Oekaki means to draw, and otaku, fan, generally used for anime, but can be other things also...
Oekaki has nothing to do with fan Logan...

[Kaola Su]

Okay, thanx all who replied, also thanx to Dark Death for replying, I will try and reply to most, if not all of your threads if I know anything!

[Transtic Nerve]

Actually Otaku has no refrence to a fan of anime at all.

Otaku: 'geek; nerd; enthusiast'

or it can also mean 'your house; your home; you' in the polite form.

Otaku is used in refrence to anime fans in the meaning of slang. It's actually an insult. Used in refrence to refering to someone who has no life but to sit at home watching naime 24/7 or doing whatever. A hermit per-say. Not direct meaning to anime or a fan of anything.

Ekaki: 'artist; painter'

Prefixed by 'O' makes it a verb. To Paint, to draw, etc.

[James]

[color=#808080]That's true; it has no direct link with anime. However, it is generally used as a term that relates to anime/manga.

It's funny how "Otaku" has become almost a western word in that sense, with a meaning that seems to constantly evolve over its original intention in Japanese. o_O;[/color]

[Sara]

[size=1]So you could say that [i]otaku[/i] in English is a different word than [i]otaku[/i] in Japanese. [/size]

[TheShinje]

[size=1][color=darkblue] More to it, how do you pronounce Otaku. since I've been here over a year and still don't know how..

p.s I've been saying it like "O-tack-ooh) I'm not sure if it's correct or not. [/size][/color]

[Kaola Su]

I usually say O-Tock-ooh...but I don't really know if I amm right either! Thanx for everything else though.

[DarK DeatH]

Hmm... I don't know if I can really "pronounce" it here... But the right would be something near o-tah-koo or something like that... It's hard to say it typing... lol

[Guest Zeh]

[size=1]Wether i'm saying it right with "oh-take-ou" or not, i doubt i'd be able to change now :-P[/size]

[Kwai]

O - tah - ku something like that. Lotta words from Japan became Americanized.. Karaoke, Ninja, Karate, Tsunami, stuff like that.

[Transtic Nerve]

It's pronounced in sylable form.

O - Oh
Ta - Tah
Ku - Koo

Exactly how it looks. With Japanese words you must break down every single sylable and sperate them to know exactly how to rponounce it. For future refrence of Japanese words and pronunciations:

Vowels are pronounce dthe following:

A - AH
E - EH
I - EE (I dunno how you would spell EEEEE) lol
O - OH
U - OO

When vowels are put together, they do not conform with each other per-say like english does, you still must pronounce them as seperate sylables. But if you can learn to pronounce them right and fast enough, the sylables will flow together. For example:

Making up a random word here: KAITO - KA-I-TO (Kah-ee-toh) If you say it slow it doesn't sound like the sylables flow, but if you say it fast enough, it sounds just like it should...

But the main point is breaking each word into sylables and knowing how to pronounce those sylables.