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It's bokeh, faggots. BOKEH.
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>> Anonymous
thats some pretty nice borkeh in your pic op.. lights are nice and circular
>> Anonymous
The 50mm 1.8 can produce some nice borkehle sometimes.
>> Anonymous
borkeh, not bokeh
>> Meese|????? !iZn5BCIpug
lol pentaborkeh
>> Anonymous
>>207210
fuck you. It's BOR-KEH.
>> Anonymous
This is /p/. It's definitely borkeh.
>> Anonymous
Borkeh is the worst /p/ meme ever. Doesnt even reach that guy's toes, honestly. It wasnt even interesting, it was ignorant and retarded.
>> Anonymous
>>207224

stfu, borkeh
>> Anonymous
>>207224

vastly superior to that guy
>> Anonymous
>>207218

kinda hard to have pentaborkeh wide open
>> Anonymous
"Bokeh-aji," "flavor of blur," is technically the term in Japanese. Or so I'm told, I know no more Japanese than "bokeh" and "konishiwa."

"Bokeh" just means blur, but in English use we use it to refer to the character of the "pinto-bokeh" ("focus blur") our lenses produce.

It is definitely not "borkeh."
>> Meese|????? !iZn5BCIpug
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>>207231
I know i just felt like saying it because of the lens.
>> Anonymous
>>207232
This guy says the truth.

Props /p/ for spreading ignorance. You've gained a level.
>> Anonymous
ITT: we don't understand memes, as bad as they might be.
>> Anonymous
>>207235
I understand it, but this is as fucking lame as
de.su de.su de.su to infinity.
>> Anonymous
>>207234
>>207232

terms dont retain the same pronunciation form culture to culture.. its Borkeh in american.
>> Anonymous
>>207237
Shut the fuck up, American isn't even a language, and everyone except /p/ calls it bokeh, as it is. Even Ken Rockwell calls it bokeh, this is just a stupid forced meme.
>> Anonymous
>>207239

NO U.

American is a language and we're going to keep calling it american b/c we dont want any association with those english pigdogs
>> Anonymous
>>207242
Aww. You speak English.

And if English are pigdogs, oh my, what are -you- as an American?
>> Anonymous
a bouquet of bokeh
>> Anonymous
>>207232
oh god, lurk moar.
>> Anonymous
>>207243

I am a descendant of the French. My ancestor was a guard of the castle of his master Guy de Lombard.
>> Anonymous
>>207251
>I am a descendant of the French. My ancestor was a guard of the castle of his master Guy de Lombard. I speak English.
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
bokeh skyline for president!
>> Anonymous
>>207255

lurk 1970s British comedy moar.
>> Anonymous
>>207257
Doesn't appeal to my interests.
>> Anonymous
>>207266

but apparently the "english" pronunciation of the japanese word borkeh does.
>> Anonymous
Bork bork bork bork

BORKEH
>> Anonymous
>>207296
Nope, doesn't appeal to me. I don't like it.
>> Inanimate !3dXYfvdbBk
>>207242

I am American and I speak English.

Please, don't let this twit represent my entire country.
>> Anonymous
>>207232
>I know no more Japanese than "bokeh" and "konishiwa."
And not even that much. "Bokeh" is an impossible utterance in Japanese, since there is no isolated aspiration in their syllabary. The only vocalizations without an ending vowel sound is 'n'. And it's not "konishiwa", it's "konnichi-ha", wherein the '-ha' sounds like '-wa' due to its usage and location in the phrase.
>> Anonymous
>>207362

O HAI I AM SUPER LINGUIST

You're wrong anyway, you pretentious d-bag.?"bokeh" isn't impossible in Japanese, it's just romanized weird??it should be "boke", but someone probably put the h on there to prevent people from pronouncing it "boak".

"Boke" comes from "bokeru", which means "to fade" and in the context of photography, "to blur". But borkeh is funnier anyway.

Dumbass.
>> Anonymous
>>207362
0/10

>>207370
9/10
>> Anonymous
>>207370
>"bokeh" isn't impossible in Japanese
Yes it is. You're comparing two languages with different ways of pronouncing syllables, which in itself is a logical fallacy. 0/infinity
>> Anonymous
>>207377
You're right, no languages can be transliterated, ever.
0/?1
>> Anonymous
>>207379
And when they are, glaring inaccuracies that you profess as being valid come to light, such as the word "bokeh". Case in point.
>> Anonymous
>>207383
that is because it is BORKEH lrn2read
>> Anonymous
>>207370O HAI I AM SUPER LINGUIST
Hello, good sir. My name is Cunning Linguist.
>> Anonymous
>>207409
That's just really lame.
>> Anonymous
In danish its not called BOKEH or BORKEH, its called: very blurry unsharp images because some fuck-face failed to use his AF motor.
>> Anonymous
Cunning Linguist being playing in jasmin?
>> Anonymous
so can we get some more pictures with creamy borkeh?
>> Anonymous
>>207377

Therefore, every alphabet can be only be used for one dialect of one language, right? Japanese people use roman characters all the time. 0/suck my dick.
>> okto !.ZlrOYZhsk
>>207421
You don't have any idea what we're talking about. Bokeh is background out-of-focus blur.
>> okto !.ZlrOYZhsk
>>207383
Japanese linguistics diploma or 0/0.
>> Anonymous
bo-ke (bokeh) ??
is a Japanese word that literally means "blur"
>> Anonymous
borkeh is an american word that means cool out of focus shit in the foreground or background.
>> Anonymous
booka da tikket ,i wanna go beech
>> Anonymous
>>207460
>Baw I'm a butthurt baby jealous of other peoples' knowledge. I can't imagine someone knowing more than me without having gone through a degree program, so I'm going to ask for proof of one!

What a crybaby. Though I have taken numerous Japanese history and language classes at college.
>> Anonymous
>>207478

I've been studying Japanese for eight years. I live in Japan. I can tell you with some authority that you're wrong. I can also tell you that you're a jackass, but I don't have the academic credentials to back that one up.

Man, getting mad about the internet is fun!
>> Anonymous
>>207484
>>I live in Japan.

How many proxies do you use to access 4chan?
>> Anonymous
>>207484
>I've been studying Japanese for eight years. I live in Japan.
Oh god, it's resorted to these types of lies. Okay guy, you win, I guess your mom's basement is considered Japan now because of the anime posters and robot action figures.

I, on the other hand, actually have taken college courses about Japanese, and if I told you where, you would believe me even less.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
Its Borokah

you fags cant get anything right.
>> Anonymous
>>207486
None! It seems to work fine, thankfully.

>>207487
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_japanese
>> Anonymous
>>207499
What on earth is the point of linking me to that article? Do you even know what you're arguing about anymore? I didn't say that romanization didn't exist, or that one language can't be expressed in another. I said, and the article you linked to BACKS ME UP on this, that 1) there are numerous systems to romanize, meaning that none can be truly representative of the actual language, and 2) there is no "h" at the end of any romanization of any character in the Japanese syllabary.

DOES YOUR DUMB ASS EVEN KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING? There is no romanization of "?" as "keh", in any system. You linked me not only to an article that someone studying Japanese for a few hours would be fascinated with and use as a source, but also one that completely, utterly, and 100% proves my point and disproves yours. I lol'd.
>> Anonymous
>>207506
Jesus fucking christ you're a moron. OK, so you figured out that there is no such thing as perfect transliteration. Apparently you haven't made the next logical jump to the fact that transliteration may not always look the way you expect it to.

The addition or subtraction of letters from the standard romanization of Japanese words is actually quite common, especially when that word enters mainstream English. Non-standard romanizations are commonly used when pronunciation would be severely screwed up by the average English speaker. For example: Noh (oh shit! it has an h, it must not be a real Japanese word), Tokyo (correct romanization would be Toukyou), Judo (standard romanization would be Juudou or even Jyuudou) and yes, Bokeh (which should be romanized as boke, but would be pronounced as boak by English speakers without the h).

So shut your fucking yap.
>> Anonymous
>>207506
>>207526

I dont get why you guys are arguing? You're both wrong.. it's Borkeh
>> Anonymous
Mike Johnston, while editor of some photo magazine in the '90s, ran an article on the conscious, overt concept of bokeh-aji, the first to mass publicize it in the West. He made an editorial decision to stick the "h" on so, just like the guy above said, people wouldn't say it "boak." Since it was the first major English-language text dealing with it, it stuck on.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-04-04-04.shtml
>> Anonymous
>>207526
>The addition or subtraction of letters from the standard romanization of Japanese words is actually quite common
But it's not part of any accepted transliteration/romanization systems, which are designed to properly represent the language. If you're not trying to represent the language (Japanese) correctly, you may as well be talking about Tagalog.
>Noh
Doesn't exist, it's in IMPROPER transliteration. There would be as much sense in calling in Gngo'hh.
>Tokyo
Again, improperly translated. Go around saying Toekeyow, you'll be just as correct as you are now.

And you have the balls to call me the moron? Look at yourself!
>> Anonymous
>>207547
Is the only right answer.
Not please stop this faggotry, or take it to /jp/. This board is for photography. Geez, someone has something wrong on the internet, how suprising.
>> Anonymous
>>207547
Mike Johnston is not a native Japanese speaker, nor a Japanese scholar, therefore proving my point here>>207561
I'm going to laugh at whatever sorry excuse for an argument the other guy tries to create now.
>> Anonymous
>>207563
The point of romanization outside of academic-linguistic circles isn't literal transliteration, it's transcribing it so people get the word right. Which is what matters. We're not trying to understand Japanese grammar (and if we were, why would we romanize it?), we're trying to say "bokeh" right. The "h" is helpful.
>> Anonymous
>>207585
Was supposed to go to
>>207565.
>> Anonymous
>>207585
I agree, but>>207370
said:
>"bokeh" isn't impossible in Japanese
Which it is, which is what he's wrong about, which he won't admit. End of story/thread/argument/discussion.
>> Anonymous
"Bokeh" was written that way to make it easy for English-speakers to pronounce the japanese word correctly due to the difference in syllable pronounciation between the two languages.

"Borkeh" came out of the fingers of a guy who couldn't read the word and therefore wrote it that way. It is now repeated by a bunch of idiots as if the same guy who said it will come around and see every retard making fun of him and therefore will facepalm himself for being so stupid.

I facepalm because of these retards being so stupid and repeating the stupid misspelling.

Ahriegatoes Goatsimust, Mr Yamamoetoe.
>> Anonymous
so can we get some more pictures with great borkeh plz?
>> Anonymous
dis thrad need moar borkeh
>> BurtGummer
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>> Anonymous
>>207561
It is not an IMPROPER transliteration you fuckwit. There is not some magical standard that makes a transliteration proper or improper, it's just based on common usage. Since bokeh, noh, and Tokyo are all common use transliterations, they're perfectly appropriate.

Go back to your first year linguistics class and quit spouting idiocy until you actually know what you're talking about.
>> Anonymous
>>207672
>It is not an IMPROPER transliteration you fuckwit.
Yes, it is.
>There is not some magical standard that makes a transliteration proper or improper
Yes, there is actually, the fact that the people who came up with the transliteration systems I'm referring to have numerous degrees and even doctorates in Japanese language studies. That's a pretty important standard in the academic world, you know, if someone has graduated college courses regarding the subject they're writing books about. I have the feeling you're the kind of person who didn't graduate highschool. You know, based on how miserably retarded you make yourself look, time after time.
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>207791
you both are acting pretty freaking stupid considering you're arguing over the colloquial translation of a word. We all know what "bokeh" means, who cares if it's not the way it's said in Japanese?

That's right. No one. Except you two.
>> Anonymous
>>207797

its borkeh
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>207799
are you sure? I've always heard that it was borohokeh.
>> Anonymous
>>207799
>>207809
You're both wrong, it's burka.
>> Anonymous
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Robert Bork, eh?
>> BurtGummer
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Bork and Mindy?

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>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
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Bjork?
>> Anonymous
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Prork?
>> Anonymous
This thread is the first thing that comes up when you do a Google search for "Borkeh"
>> Anonymous
>>207863
The internet is amazing.
>> Anonymous
>>207863
Second page, there's some family genaology page, apparently Borkeh is a Yiddish or Hebrew given name: there was once someone named Baruch Borkeh Shubitz.

Google seems to index /p/ pretty quickly, I've been looking for sources to back me up in Lol Internet Arguments and seen a post I/the other guy made in the thread show up on the Google search.
>> Anonymous
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>>207839
BJÖRKEH

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>> Anonymous
>>207971

i had to dig into the pages of /p/ to find this thread, but when I did i lol'd heartily. Very nice bjork borkeh
>> Anonymous
ITT: No one is ever allowed to do anything that isn't perfectly correct. Ever.