Quick question

[Dome]

What does this mean


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[Dome]

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[hebiichigo]

"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.

[Tokyoite]

you are right.
i'm surprised that you know 2chan.

[Dome]

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]

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]

Flash:relief:
http://www7.plala.or.jp/ungeromeppa/flash/kita.swf

It is one of the ascii art
"キタ━━━━(゜∀゜)━━━━ッ!"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 halt 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.:blush:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/%A5%AD%A5%BF%A1%BC

[Dome]

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 !.

[TronDD]

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

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.