By GI Korea on October 7th, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Picture of the Day: Period Play?

• ChickenHead
  2:12 pm on October 7th, 2011 1

  Q: What’s better than a sexy Asian fairy?

  A: A sexy Asian goblin…

  …gobblin’ yer meat, that is.

• Teadrinker
  6:44 pm on October 7th, 2011 2

  A period play contest? As in dressing up in knights and wizards? The Chosun Ilbo sure is trying real hard not to use the correct term, which is cosplay, a Japanese loan word to English.

• K
  10:10 pm on October 7th, 2011 3

  COSPLAY itself is an English loan word to Japanese which means ‘COStume PLAY’.

• ChickenHead
  12:17 am on October 8th, 2011 4

  “COSPLAY itself is an English loan word to Japanese which means ‘COStume PLAY’.”

  Of course “costume” is a French loan word which means… well… costume…

  …which is an Italian loan word… “costume”… meaning fashion or habit… which evolved from the Latin “consuetudinem”… meaning custom, habit, usage…

  …making custom and costume the same words arriving by a different etymology.

  More interstingly, “play” is a shortened loan word from Gullah… “m’fnknplaya”… which entered the English language at the peak of the Anglo-African slave trade.

  In British English, it evolved to mean “activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation” while its Eubonics definition followed more closely with its original meaning of “a bad-azz mofunker who be gittin’ all da fine biitches”.

  Cosplay is frequently thought to be a portmanteau of “costume” and “play” but this is incorrect.

  In reality, “c.o.s.p.l.a.y.” is a acronym for…

  Creepy Oddballs Seeking Puussy Love Animated Youth

• K
  12:36 am on October 8th, 2011 5

  #4

  A very well educated post, thank you. I expect TD has learned his special language lesson well too.

• Teadrinker
  5:28 am on October 8th, 2011 6

  #3,
  Yes, I know. Funny how language works, doesn’t it?

• Teadrinker
  5:30 am on October 8th, 2011 7

  Sheesh…I clicked “Submit”, changed page and then had to return because I had a sinking feeling that I had written doesn’t instead of isn’t…and I did.

• Teadrinker
  5:33 am on October 8th, 2011 8

  the, not a…Gee, I’m tired. Looks like I’m not simply taking a little break from working on my research plan, I’m done for the day.

• Conway Eastwood
  5:37 am on October 8th, 2011 9

  I was thinking of a different kind of period…

• Teadrinker
  5:53 am on October 8th, 2011 10

  #9,

  Dude, are you suggesting she looks like a used tampon?

• Burma Bob
  6:11 am on October 8th, 2011 11

  As always, no thread is ever complete without Chickenhead’s contribution. I especially liked the expansion into Ebonics.

• kangaji
  6:40 am on October 8th, 2011 12

  Listen up sluts. It’s a portmanteau from two loan words. That is all.

• Chris Hiler
  6:53 am on October 8th, 2011 13

  I had no idea crusty ole vets could be so campy. The entries above are hilarious and y’all should have a morning talk show!

• K
  7:29 am on October 8th, 2011 14

  “Yes, I know. Funny how language works, doesn’t it?”

  It is a mistake to call the act of dressing up in knights and wizards Creepy Oddballs Seeking Puussy Love Animated Youth. Therefore, period play may actually be a better term to use to describe this show. Does it not?

• Teadrinker
  8:31 am on October 8th, 2011 15

  #14,

  She isn’t dressed up as a knight or a wizard, is she?

• K
  9:11 am on October 8th, 2011 16

  So you agree even more that she isn’t doing any Creepy Oddballs Seeking Puussy Love Animated Youth, Teadrinker? Thank you for showing the initiative to provide yourself a sound self-explanation as to why the word(s) Creepy Oddballs Seeking Puussy Love Animated Youth were not used in the news article.

• ChickenHead
  10:44 am on October 8th, 2011 17

  I stand corrected.

  The real meaning of c.o.s.p.l.a.y. turns out to be…

  Consisting Of Seriously Pitiable Losers Admiring Yoda

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