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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: Umm....dumb question
Date: Tue Apr 9 22:25:01 2002
Hey guys...I realize this is gonna sound dumb to some of you but I'm
reading all of the TSS issues from #1 to #16 and I've heard it a couple
times on here.....

What the hell does "omae" mean??????

Derek
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Keith Duthie)
Subject: Umm....dumb question
Date: Tue Apr 9 23:00:01 2002
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Derek Hyde wrote:

> What the hell does "omae" mean??????

Chummer, buddy, dude, ...

It's a word you use when you don't want to say "hey you" or use a person's
name.

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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Bira)
Subject: Umm....dumb question
Date: Tue Apr 9 23:05:01 2002
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:13:04 -0500
"Derek Hyde" <dhyde@*********.net> wrote:

>
> Hey guys...I realize this is gonna sound dumb to some of you but I'm
> reading all of the TSS issues from #1 to #16 and I've heard it a couple
> times on here.....
>
> What the hell does "omae" mean??????

It's one of the forms of the word "you" in Japanese, a bit informal. In
SR slang, it has the same meaning as "dude" or "man". Example:
"Chill
out, omae."

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Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: Umm....dumb question
Date: Wed Apr 10 01:00:01 2002
> It's one of the forms of the word "you" in Japanese, a bit informal.
In
> SR slang, it has the same meaning as "dude" or "man". Example:
"Chill
> out, omae."

DOH!! Ok guys...thanks a lot....now I feel like an official One Delta
Ten Tango (1D10T)
Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject: Umm....dumb question
Date: Wed Apr 10 04:30:01 2002
>From: "Derek Hyde" <dhyde@*********.net>
>Hey guys...I realize this is gonna sound dumb to some of you but I'm
>reading all of the TSS issues from #1 to #16 and I've heard it a couple
>times on here.....
>
>What the hell does "omae" mean??????

Omae is a Japanese loan word loosely translating to buddy, although the
literal translation is slightly less friendly
There are numerous "Shadowslang Glossary" type pages out there, the one that
come to mind first is on BKK (because it's the first one I ran across) I
can't remember the address off the top of my head but if you bung the word
"Knobi" into google it will probably be the first site listed.

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