I use Mr. T and my wife when either one or the other makes more sense. She gets a kick out of it when I tell her the stories that involve her - and she's plenty colorful enough to give me vivid images.

My favorite: The salad princess (once upon a time) going off to fight the dragon after borrowing the gold chains from Mr. T.

Spiderman is my favorite personification so far - very helpful. Just like for person, I added a second image for 'thread' - my brother. There are so many kanji with 'thread' that it isn't a problem to have multiple images in my experience. Kind of like the Tom Hanks approach.

tummai Wrote:Old thread I know, but I'm reviving it. I use Fedor Emelianenko as my person.

Fedor? Rofl. Is he destroying legions of mighty fighters or ducking big fights?

I used superman for part of it.
It worked flawlessly for the "chief" kanji, as perry white is superman's chief.
I also used musashi.
Sheep is luffy from one piece. Gentleman is kame from dragon ball.
Turkey is a brazilian comic actor called Mr Turkey.

I use the first girl I ever had a crush on way back as a kid.

I find the shared stories usually work fine if you substitute Mr. T or whoever, for your chosen person. At least in my case it works out fine. It's not important for the story to "make sense" so it doesn't matter that the old crush has been put in situations way out of the ordinary for her.

(My old crush, in a french maid outfit?! I'd encroach on that!)

I did use Batman for "equip" as the kanji fit that scene in Batman Begins so well. In hindsight, Batman would be a great character all around for that primitive.

Yes, Batman worked very well for me. He was the first thing that came to mind, and I'm glad he did. He works for a lot that just make a certain kind of sense (battles between Batman and Poison Ivy are Excellent, Batman is Reliant on his specialized Garments, Batman's Dwelling is fit for a Lord, Batman's servants only use mops imported from Italy, Batman has many rules for the Robins at his side), and Batman is just ridiculous enough that he works for everything else as well, in the way that Chuck Norris and Mr. T do. After all, He's Batman, and he can breathe in space...

snispilbor Wrote:(My old crush, in a french maid outfit?! I'd encroach on that!)

For this reason alone, I plan to steal your idea!

hehehe...

I'm sinking my teeth into chapter 23(fingers!) as we speak. Using Colonel Sanders has been very entertaining.

snispilbor Wrote:I use the first girl I ever had a crush on way back as a kid.

I find the shared stories usually work fine if you substitute Mr. T or whoever, for your chosen person. At least in my case it works out fine. It's not important for the story to "make sense" so it doesn't matter that the old crush has been put in situations way out of the ordinary for her.

(My old crush, in a french maid outfit?! I'd encroach on that!)

Dear god, I just did encroach.

WHY THE HELL DID I NOT THINK OF THIS! I already have a somewhat attractive french maid in my imagery, but if "that" person was the French Maid...

I feel bad for not thinking of this.

To answer the general topic, I generally just use 'person', 'people', or for some reason, 'Humanity.' When I can't think of anything with that, it's Chuck Norris. If I see a pre-made story that I HAVE to use, I'll use Mr. T, but I never think of my own Mr. T stories.

New idea:
I'm using Hard Gay(that crazy comedian guy) instead of 'crotch'. You'd be surprised how many hilarious stories can be cooked up(and how many synonyms for his uh...298(RTK euphemism!)) Much better than thinking of 50-odd stories for 'crotch'.

You know, I often have trouble thinking of stories for things like wheat, or rice, or cocoon. Crotch? never been an issue, haha.

wrightak Wrote:Sorry to be a prude but does anyone feel like correcting the grammar in the topic title?

You know, that bothers me too...

Anyway, I'm about 60 kanji away from this lesson. Would it work to use two distinct things for this? One being a certain girl(hasn't shown up in any of the stories so far), the other being the Family Guy universe(lots of people, and lots of flexibility).

For me was Nadal a famous tennist!!!
I dunno why maybe because in that afternoon I watched the final of the Wimbledon's tournament...but was a very good choice for me

I made イ and separate primitive. It's an imac.

I'm subscribing to this topic because I'm working on Lesson 26 right now, so I'll be there shortly.

And the grammar does bother me. Please, someone fix this.

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@ruisu I edited the topic title, changed "Whose" into "Who is" (hopefully the latter is correct). I don't want to be a "grammar nazi" on these boards so I usually avoid editing topic titles. But if somebody requests it I see no objection so far as it's an obvious grammar error or misspelling, I hope you don't mind too much..

I should reach this soon.

I was going to use Bruce Lee when I first heard of this section. Now after reading this topic I can't decide whether or not I should should Mr. T or Batman or Bruce.

Perhaps I should use all three depending on the kanji?

P.S.

Commas omitted for ur pleasured readings

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kazelee Wrote:Commas omitted for ur pleasured readings

If that amuses you...

Fyi, I edited the topic title, I don't edit people's posts, and when I have to I always leave a note.

I used Arnold Schwarzenegger because I couldn't think of a character myself, and the RTK blog I was using before I came here used Arnold, and I decided he was too good a character to pass up. He can be a badass action hero or a goofy and inept politician or whatever as you see fit... he's a very flexible guy.

- Kef

ファブリス Wrote:If that amuses you...

Very much

Very bored

ファブリス Wrote:Fyi, I edited the topic title, I don't edit people's posts, and when I have to I always leave a note.

Always good to know. [Fragment]
It takes a good leader to courageously hold back even though his eyes have been violated. [split infinitive]

I could do this all day, but, unfortunately, now this game has become boring as well. It's a bit time consuming trying to make errors on purpose. I blame my English teachers.

Having just spent the past 4 days blowing through all 7 Harry Potter books, my person is Dumbledore. It works well, especially if you incorporate other characters from it into the stories.

7 Books in 4 days. We won't need to start some sort of intervention will we?

I just finished the section with the kanji for going. I took a stab at associating the primitive with a character. It works wonders. I'm actually getting excited to learn Kanji.
Anyone else find that weird.

I think I'm going to use a dwarf...

I don't like being too specific because it restricts the range of possible stories. A dwarf can do everything normal people do. But it's more fun. Especially if one has a cruel sense of humor.

(apologies to any dwarf reading this)

When I was going through RTK1, my "person" was Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, which worked really well since my "taskmaster" was Snape.

Im using Cirno from 東方, cant be easier than this, lol.

I've been using Solid Snake, but I'm not sure if it's working yet. I'll report back at a later time.