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    <wikipedia>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)#Japanese</wikipedia>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2009-03-11T20:48:15Z</created-at>
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  <tags>Desu, Suiseiseki, 4chan, Rozen, Maiden, Rule, 51</tags>
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  <title>Desu</title>
  <content>&lt;p&gt;The Japanese word &lt;i&gt;desu&lt;/i&gt; is a copula: a word that links the subject of a sentence with the verb. A close English approximation of this would be the words &lt;i&gt;to be&lt;/i&gt; and all related linking-verbs such as &lt;i&gt;to be, will be, was, is, are,&lt;/i&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other Japanese copulas are &lt;i&gt;da, de, wa, na, &lt;/i&gt;and more. The form &lt;i&gt;desu&lt;/i&gt; is essentially the same as &lt;i&gt;da&lt;/i&gt; except that it is used in a polite or proper context, such as the practice of adding &lt;i&gt;usted&lt;/i&gt; in Spanish.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the Wikipedia link in the header for more info on copulas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The character Suiseiseki from the anime series &lt;i&gt;Rozen Maiden&lt;/i&gt; ends every sentence with &lt;i&gt;desu.&lt;/i&gt; Many people have found her obsessive need to be polite, even in cases where it may or may not be grammatically correct, to be peculiar, desu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Image macros using the word &lt;i&gt;desu&lt;/i&gt; or images of Suiseiseki are used commonly on 4chan by fans of anime (sometimes referred to by the derogatory term &lt;i&gt;weeaboo&lt;/i&gt;), and by those mocking them, desu.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are even &amp;#8220;combo-videos&amp;#8221; where you can hear hundreds of unique utterances of &lt;di&gt;desu&lt;/i&gt; one after another, desu.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-10T03:17:56Z</updated-at>
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