Remember in Lesson 27 when it was suggested that we pick an individual person to use in our stories? Just wondering who everyone picked. It appears a lot of you guys are fond of Mr. T. Lol...

I picked Chara, the singer. How about the rest of you?

I used Mr. T, but in a couple I also used Chuck Norris (such as in "example") and it worked out fine. I save lots of time reusing shared stories, so that's one reason I picked the same persons as others have. I'm on lesson 36, but I have no problem remembering most of the "Person" frames. On Lesson 36 you meet the "thread" primitive, and Spiderman works great for that.

I used Talan Memmott, the author of "Lexia to Perplexia", which you may or may not have heard of. He's one of my professors, and a pretty interesting person to boot.

I was just thinking about posting something like this as well....

I use a combination of Alfred/Bruce Wayne/Batman. I actually find for most of the kanji it works surprisingly well.

I also found that if a kanji uses the primitive of person and I try to remember it using people in general, I will fail it nearly 100% (for example, I made municipality = people in cave sticking to their own laws).

At first I tried thinking of a crazy friend that I know in real life as being the "person", but then I realized that so many of Fuabarisu's great stories make the most sense when you use Mr. T. For example, you can't get much better than his story for "reliant" where he suggests thinking of Mr. T as being reliant on his gold-chain garments. That, and the fact that the primitive for person looks roughly like the letter "T" had me sold.

sutebun: I couldn't come up with a story for municipality at all...I bet your Batman theme worked out well though. The Mr. T one sounds great too: Mr. T glues together the caves forming a municipality. I might just use Mr. T there...maybe as the exception.

Dragg: I had a very similar play on reliant.

This was a pretty fun chapter as far as making stories goes. I hope there's another one like it down the line.

I used Batman/batcave for "cave". And Mr. T worked great for my person.

I used Captain Picard. Worked extremely well for me.

For me person is my girlfriend. She's funny and imaginative, so the stories came out well (some of them, though, I will not tell her... even too imaginative! )

Alan Rickman. I didn't pick someone I actually knew because I didn't especially want all the wierd associations that might result from that! The advantage of chosing an actor who plays a such a variety of roles meant that I had a good choice of different personalities to fit different stories, while still mentally linking them to the same person. I mainly use Snape from Harry Potter, Colonel Brandon from Sense & Sensibility and Metatron from Dogma - I've found there's enough of a range of images there that if I can't fit one character into a story, another is bound to fit easily!

Plus I didn't mind spending a reasonable amount of time thinking about him.

Zorro. The masked man in a cape somehow migrated to the old west in a few stories... but worked out well for me.

I use the image of a Marine Sentry. Well, more specifically, I use the picture of an Embassy guard in full dress blues. Works pretty well for the mental pictures of my stories.

Gordan Strachan, Celtic FC manager. The poor man... I've had him sleeping with a cow, putting his pet chihuahua down, ordering in a saggy prostitute because his wife is dying... I'll never look at him the same way again.

Brilliant post Virtua_Leaf. Made me laugh.

strangely enough i did the opposite to what most of the people do : instead of a eccentric character which is sometimes difficult to make fit with the background i choose a chameleon . Tom Hanks. He played so many different parts that he's really easy to use . In this way since it's always tom hanks I can be sure that it's not a mere person included in the kanji for the sake of it . And in the same time there's always a direct link between one of his parts and the word.
a non thorough list of his parts

-a gay advocate ailing from aids(philadelphia)
- forrest gump
- an astronaut (appolo 13)
- a private former english teacher (saving private ryan)
- a hitman who barely speaks(road to perdition)
- a jailkeeper (green line)
- a fedex saler -hermit (castaway)
- a cop playing by the book(catch me if you can)
- a foreigner (the terminal)
- a very easy going politician (charlie wilson's war)

It seems to me that even if there are actors more eccentric (daniel day lewis, johnny deep,etc...) Tom Hanks is the actor having played the greatest array of character ever.

ghinzdra Wrote:strangely enough i did the opposite to what most of the people do : instead of a eccentric character which is sometimes difficult to make fit with the background i choose a chameleon . Tom Hanks. He played so many different parts that he's really easy to use . In this way since it's always tom hanks I can be sure that it's not a mere person included in the kanji for the sake of it . And in the same time there's always a direct link between one of his parts and the word.
a non thorough list of his parts

-a gay advocate ailing from aids(philadelphia)
- forrest gump
- an astronaut (appolo 13)
- a private former english teacher (saving private ryan)
- a hitman who barely speaks(road to perdition)
- a jailkeeper (green line)
- a fedex saler -hermit (castaway)
- a cop playing by the book(catch me if you can)
- a foreigner (the terminal)
- a very easy going politician (charlie wilson's war)

It seems to me that even if there are actors more eccentric (daniel day lewis, johnny deep,etc...) Tom Hanks is the actor having played the greatest array of character ever.

Weird. To me, Tom Hanks is just the opposite of that, he always acts the same in all his movies. Would you also call Bill Murray, Will Smith, or Woody Allen chamaleonic? Robin Williams also has a vast array of interesting characters (Popeye, the Genie from Aladdin, the bicentenary man, patch adams, Theodore roosevelt...) and I would never call him a polymath actor.

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vosmiura Wrote:I used Mr. T, but in a couple I also used Chuck Norris

I say why stop at Mr.T when you could chuck (ahem) Chuck Norris in there too? The more the merrier! ^_^

ghinzdra Wrote:instead of a eccentric character which is sometimes difficult to make fit with the background i choose a chameleon . Tom Hanks. He played so many different parts that he's really easy to use .

I agree with what you're saying there. I didn't use Mr T for the same reason. My selection might not sound like the most creative idea, but I decided to use my dear old grandmother That allowed me to have 25 years worth of scenarios to draw from!

As always if you get a result you're right whatever you assert . As far as i'm concerned i never reported the post sexually , politicaly , religiously disturbing .I only report the post that doesn't help anyone (see the book , trolls , etc...) . The ONLY goal of this technique in general and this forum especially is to make memorable stories . Stories about your grandmother or celebrating Hitler same thing to me . Moral , originality , dignity got nothing to do with it .
So good idea if you remember kanji this way.

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

wrightak Wrote:Brilliant post Virtua_Leaf. Made me laugh.

Cheers.

My image of him has gotten far worse since I first posted that actually.

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

Zack (Fair, final fantasy 7 (and Crisis Core, advent children)).

I'm not *that* much of a fan but to me, Zack is a wonderful and crazy character. He did some very un-Zacki-ish things in some of the stories, but that didn't matter... Just the fact that it has Zack in it works for me.

Loads of times though, I just used the Mr T stories and changed that to 'Zack'. As long as you have a name/person, any name/person... I suppose.

As so many others, I used Mr T as my main person..... In addition, I also used one of my friends in a few of the stories.
I find the stories for the kanji that contains person as a primitive to be amongst the funniest ones .

I don't like things being arbitrary, so since it means 'person', I picked this woman who works at H&R block. Since their ad campaign is "You got people" and all...