Why no miss?

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:02 am

One that ends; unlike the vast majority of TV shows/cartoons that FEEL like they need to have ends, but don't.

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:07 am

Arvandor wrote:One that ends; unlike the vast majority of TV shows/cartoons that FEEL like they need to have ends, but don't.

but this one should... so i second gaijinpunch's motion... END OF STORY!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:33 am

Sorry... I'm a trendsetter by nature.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:27 am

ノミス (no misu):
Contraction of NO MISUteku = No Mistake.
"no misu" was then wrongly transcribed into English as "no miss" by some Japanese game designer who didn't know any better, and it got stuck.

They love those contractions in Japanese, other examples include:

セクハレ (sekuhare) = SEKUshuaru HARAsumento = Sexual Harassment
マクド (makudo) = MAKUDOnarudo = MacDonald's
パソコン (pasokon) = PASOnaru CONpyuta = Personal Computer
ファミコン (famicom) = FAMIri CONputer　= Family Computer

Only those didn't re-enter the English language.

End of story

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:33 am

My favorite is スト (Street Fighter)

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:48 am

I like "Brappi", short for Brad Pitt.

doctorx0079 wrote:I think mostly it comes from DDP. If you get through the level without losing a ship you get a "No Miss" bonus. End of story.

Huh? Even after all of the examples of games using it decades before DDP came out?

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:19 am

NTSC-J wrote:I like "Brappi", short for Brad Pitt.

ブラッピがだいすきだよ！

I can just imagine saying this to the average Japanese and being looked at like your insane.

icepick · Post by **icepick** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:19 am

twe wrote:Never have I seen a thread with so many "end of story"s!

I was thinking the same thing!

Nice to know what this means now, though. It actually seems reminiscent of how slang tends to go in English too, as in when people say, "the yoozh" as shorthand for "the usual." (It was hard to spell that, sorry.) Makudo sounds every bit as agreeable as "Mickey D's," but then again, didn't McDonald's come up with that themselves?

Yes, I should read that Shmup Glossary. I believe I will!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:22 am

Ceph wrote:ノミス (no misu):

Had you kanified it properly you might've convinced some people.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:08 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
Ceph wrote:ノミス (no misu):
Had you kanified it properly you might've convinced some people.

Oops, I left out the hyphen. ノーミス

(Like they did in "Lust Hope")

MovingTarget · Post by **MovingTarget** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:21 am

I think a mod should end of story this thread

1up · Post by **1up** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:51 am

Ceph wrote:ノミス (no misu):
Contraction of NO MISUteku = No Mistake.
"no misu" was then wrongly transcribed into English as "no miss" by some Japanese game designer who didn't know any better, and it got stuck.

End of story

That one makes the most sense to me

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:28 pm

Ceph wrote:Oops, I left out the hyphen. ノーミス
(Like they did in "Lust Hope")

Actually I think it's there. They just made it horizontal, while the rest of the text was vertical (look at it again). I actually corrected this for them, but they did not change it.