General Yuzuru Chat

[Sammie]

 

[eagle]

5 hours ago, Yuazz said:

Yes, he's really intelligent. Normal people would used a wink emoticon like this  ; ) but he thinks differently. He used Ci for a wink. No one ever think about that. I consider him as genius. 

 

As a marketing person, I wouldnt want to be in his marketing team and having to come up with explainations of the hashtag, lol.

I certainly wouldnt recommend it to my clients and I'm not even from an English speaking country. My country's top athletes had have their events before. If the slogan sounds off/weird/grammar error(usually lost in translation issue), Everyone would comment, vocally. We would be saying "Who's the PR company that came up with this slogan?! So ..........Sack them"

Slogans, themes, etc are supposed to be easy to understand by the target market but hey, I reckon Yuzuru figured his fans will buy anything he sells.

 

[kaeryth]

33 minutes ago, yude said:

Kohei Uchimura talked about Yuzuru's win at the Olympics. "I'm speechless. The Olympics was the first competition since he had been injured. If I were him, I could not have done the same. It is impossible for me."

Kohei injured his left ankle at WC in October last year and withdrew, and he will participate in the competition in next week after 5 months of absence. His ankle is recovered 70% and he wants to get back the sense of the competition.

https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/ne...00428000c.html

 

I'll be cheering for you King Kohei!

[kaeryth]

Yuzuru Hanyu - The Starry Sky 7 Years Ago with English Subtitles

Spoiler

 

 

[micaelis]

[Admin edit: Don't make assumptions about other members. Thanks!]

 

When I was teaching English years ago I'd often find similar situations when reading and grading student papers.  The situation is poor word choice and I've found that even highly educated individuals in fields other than English have that problem, even though English is their native language.  Some of my students, however, were not native English speakers and I would take that into account when grading the papers.  I did, however, meet with them outside class to go over the paper and try to steer them to the words they really needed. 

 

I think it is too easy for native English speakers to overlook the fact there are far more individuals worldwide whose English is not their native tongue than those who learned English as the language they grew up with.  What native English users have to realize is those living in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, the major countries with English as the official language,  they do not have a monopoly on the language.  English is now, quite simply, the international language, the one that is used in business, in science, in education, in so many situations where a common language is today necessary.  That it became so is a product of two elements.  The first is the two centuries in which English-speaking nations were the dominant nations worldwide - England and after it the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries respectively.  The second is that English, despite it's eccentricities, is one of the easiest languages to learn if you are just aiming for simple functionality.  With one exception - its spelling.  I think only French, of the languages I know, is worse than English there. 

 

In any case I think we should all take into account when reading the words of others on this forum that there are cases where the right words simply are not there and so some word, any word, is chosen to finish what they are trying to say.  Look sharply at the context of the entire message before judging harshly what might simply be a case where the writer simply is at a loss for words.  I doubt anybody who has gone to the effort to register and follow this forum has anything bad to say about Yuzu so with that in mind I would simply pass by inept usage.  I look more for the spirit rather than the letter of the posts here.

[robin]

Hey guys,

 

if you take issue with the language of a post I’d like to remind you to use the report button rather than calling members out openly. I doubt anyone here has ill intentions towards Yuzu.

 

And also please don’t speculate about the English proficiency of fellow members. Yes, we do have a lot of members on the forum with English not being their first language and we'd like to keep a welcoming environment.

[robin]

2 hours ago, eagle said:

Slogans, themes, etc are supposed to be easy to understand by the target market but hey, I reckon Yuzuru figured his fans will buy anything he sells.

 

Yeah. If the marketing goal is to fill the seats I think they've already shot beyond the goal by mentioning Yuzu will be there LOL

 

And don't forget that the target market are us, the Yuzu fans, who love spending time inspecting and analyzing anything Yuzu says or does. He basically gave us a toy to play with

[kaeryth]

Can anyone translate? Nobu is gushing about Yuzu again

 

[Forcefield]

3 hours ago, Sammie said:

 

 

I wish they would sell and ship the t-shirts internationally. I won't be in Sendai, but I'd like to buy a t-shirt to help towards the parade and celebrations. Yes, I'd even pay for shipping for a t-shirt.

[Kizuna]

13 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

Can anyone translate? Nobu is gushing about Yuzu again

 

I think it says that the one Nobu's kids think is cool is Yuzu. He's such a god-like existence to them that they think "No way, no way, no way!" about taking a photo with Yuzu. Also, they think it's awesome that Nobu is skating with Yuzu, like it's awesome only because he's skating with Yuzu 

 

Anyone feel free to correct me if I misunderstood/missed out anything 

[SparkleSalad]

Need vid to live.

 

[KatjaThera]

11 minutes ago, Forcefield said:

 

I wish they would sell and ship the t-shirts internationally. I won't be in Sendai, but I'd like to buy a t-shirt to help towards the parade and celebrations. Yes, I'd even pay for shipping for a t-shirt.

If I remember correctly, Ice Rink Sendai's online shop ships overseas, so if they sold them through that... And there's always proxies, too. (I was not going to get another package in April, but I think there's no escaping it...)

 

3 minutes ago, Kizuna said:

I think it says that the one Nobu's kids think is cool is Yuzu. He's such a god-like existence to them that they think "No way, no way, no way!" about taking a photo with Yuzu. Also, they think it's awesome that Nobu is skating with Yuzu, like it's awesome only because he's skating with Yuzu 

 

Anyone feel free to correct me if I misunderstood/missed out anything 

I got pretty much the same thing from it lol

[dotsquare]

4 minutes ago, SparkleSalad said:

Need vid to live.

 

Yuzu, the king of figure skating and imitating other people 

[yude]

Not only Kohei Uchimura, other top Japanese athletes were also inspired by Yuzuru in the Olympics according to these articles and tweets. I didn't have time to post at that time since there were too many news about Yuzuru himself, but here it is 

 

Tomokazu Harimoto (table tennis, gold medalist in JWC of 2016, https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/張本智和)
https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2018030300544&g=spo

 

(After he lost in the game) "If I had the mental strength Hanyu has, I would be able to get closer to the gold medal. I want to carry this regret to the next."

 

Kenzo Shirai (gymnastics, gold medalist in the Olympics and WC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzō_Shirai)
https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2018/02/26/kiji/20180226s00067000092000c.html

 

"In the warm up, there was the jump he was not able to land, but he succeeded it at one shot in the actual performance." 
"Hanyu said he would challenge 4A, and as a leading "twister" in the gymnastics, I also have to aim for the higher level."

 

Daiya Seto (swimming, gold medalist in two WC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiya_Seto)
https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2018/02/26/kiji/20180225s00092000488000c.html

 

"I think his road to the Olympics was not easy being injured, but it was beyond amazing he achieved the greatest result at the biggest stage."
"I have the connection with Hanyu in terms of belonging to the same company (Seto is in ANA, also a student of Waseda Uni), I only have greeted him. I'm interested in the mentality of "The absolute king", so I would love to talk with him. Of course, I am feeling like "I have to do it next." and being passed a baton from him."

 

Naohisa Takato (Judo, gold medalist in two WC, bronze madalist in the Olympics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naohisa_Takato )
http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/winter/20180220-OHT1T50213.html

 

"Hanyu's consentration is really great. I was moved from my heart that he executed perfectly at the big stage without loosing focus after he had injured his right ankle. He must be realizing his current strength and weakness very well. While he wanted to have the best performance at the current state since it was the Olympics, he did stick to giving all his best on that day. It was the toughness that normal people don't have. Hanyu had it and I felt he was a monster." 
"He has the absolute power that nobody can say anything about. I watched him feeling like the excellence of Yuzuru Hanyu as a human being was spreaded not only over Japan but also the whole world. Being impressed by his interview, I was motivated like I had to work harder and keep up, because I want my gold medal in the Olympics after all."

　
Nozomi Okuhara (badminton, gold medalist in WC of 2017, bronze medalist in the Olympics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomi_Okuhara)

 

"The more I see the news of Hanyu, the more I want to see him and ask a lot of questions. I want to hear many stories from him."

 

Kosei Inoue (Judo, gold medalist in the Olympics, the current supervisor of team Japan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōsei_Inoue)
https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2018/02/19/0010999477.shtml

 

"True king. He had the curious aura in his whole body and the power to draw all in." "I shouted when I was watching him. I don't know about the techniques of the sport, but he had his own expression, brilliance and flexibility. I thought he was fabulous." 
"He has incredible mentality. It is better if we don't get hurt physically, but the important thing is how to control ourselves after getting injured." 
"We have tremendous pressure for 2020, but we have to fight believing in ourselves after all. As an athlete, he gave us the courage and inspiration." 

 

Nao Kodaira (speed skating, gold medalist in the Olympics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao_Kodaira)
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180219-00000040-dal-spo

 

"First of all, his attitude for the performance was different (from mine) when he stood on the ice rink. He was standing like he was able to have clean elements without thinking anything, and I felt I wanted to compete in that kind of atomosphere as well." 
"I've heard that Hanyu read many research papers while he was injured, so if I have any chance to talk with him, I want to ask him what kind of documents he had read."

 

Kosuke Hagino (swimming, gold medalist in the Olympics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Hagino)
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASL2K6QVJL2KUTQP03H.html

 

"I imagine he had really hard time after getting injured, and his sense (for skating) may not been coming back 100% yet, but he did give it all like that. I was very moved." 
(Did Yuzuru inspire him toward the consective win in Tokyo Olympics?) "Yes. I can not let the Pooh rain over the swimming pool, so I want to make another kind of rain (in Tokyo Olympics)."

 

Yuto Nagatomo (football, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuto_Nagatomo)

 

"Yuzuru Hanyu is unbelievable. How did he show the best performance after returning from long-term withdrawal due to the injury? Has not he recovered fully yet, has he? Besides, the Olympics is the big stage. You can not do this only by the talent. Well done."

 

Shohei Ono (Judo, gold medalist in the Olympics, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohei_Ono)
https://www.nikkansports.com/sports/news/201803160000743.html

 

"Hanyu's word "I know how to win the Olympics.". He understands the way of aproaching to the big game, and the way of peaking and conditioning. What I am lack within me is "prominent". I haven't trained enough to be prominent. I only have to spend enormous amount of time to build up."

[ralucutzagy]

41 minutes ago, SparkleSalad said:

Need vid to live.

 

hahaha, who's that guy? looks like Cizeron ...