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0.  Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject: Why Dance Dance Revolution? |
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I'm not new to this game, but I was wondering why the name is Dance Dance Revolution? One of my friends said it was because in the Japanese language, they use verbs twice in a row or something like that.
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| 1. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| It's sorta like a new way of dancing, like a revolution that changed the whole world forever...something like that. It's a dancing revolution! |
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HealingV.78
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| 2. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Doesn't it sound better with Dance Dance Revolution instead of Dance Revolution? Seems weird to say only once.
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| 3. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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the only reason it seems weird saying it once is cause thats not what were used to. If when we first heared about it they told us it was Dance Revolution. Now we'd thinking Dance Dance Sounded Weird 
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Irennicus
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| 4. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have a conclusive reason, but several times in Asian names I see the same word used twice. Some areas around here include...
Hao-Hao Cuisine
Neko Neko Anime
Hai Hai
and other things... |
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PolarisIIDX
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| 5. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: Why Dance Dance Revolution? |
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| Mobile Mayhem wrote: | | I'm not new to this game, but I was wondering why the name is Dance Dance Revolution? One of my friends said it was because in the Japanese language, they use verbs twice in a row or something like that. |
Why would it make sense in any language to use a verb twice in a row? For the record, Japanese does not use the same verb twice in a row. I honestly can't imagine any language that does does. |
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| 6. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| ~Mutsuki Falcon~ wrote: | | the only reason it seems weird saying it once is cause thats not what were used to. If when we first heared about it they told us it was Dance Revolution. Now we'd thinking Dance Dance Sounded Weird |
this is probably the smartest thing said in this whole topic.
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| 7. Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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In Japanese culture, they have certain onomatopeias for various feelings, where they say the sound twice, like peko peko is hungry, as in 'I'm feeling peko peko'. I'm thinking that's why it's dance dance, because it's not just dancing, it's to make you really feel like you're dancing. Or something like that.
Excuse me, I've been awake for twenty hours.
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| 8. Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Because it sounds better then Dance revolution revolution. . . . . . . .
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| 9. Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:58 am Post subject: |
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.... And sounds much better than "Stomp On Arrows While Music Plays!".
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| 10. Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| Symmetrical Equality wrote: | | .... And sounds much better than "Stomp On Arrows While Music Plays!". |
actually i like that name.
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Ryu_Hirakashi
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| 11. Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:02 am Post subject: |
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But the problem with the name is that everyone thinks your dancing when you actually aren't. So a name like step step revolution. I don't know...it was the first thing that came to mind.
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| 14. Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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The REAL reason DDR has "Dance" appearing twice is so that it's funny when you say "It's a DDR Revolution" (or a DDRR).
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| 15. Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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My take is that if DDR's name was actually 'Dance Revolution', then the url for this site would be 'drfreak.com.' Thus, people would expect this site to have weird hospital fetish porn, which wouldn't be good for anybody.
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| 16. Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:22 am Post subject: |
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If Dance Dance Revolution was in JP, it might go like
Mai Mai no Henkaku *shrugs* It might also be Dansu Dansu no Henkaku ,but the first may be right.
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| 17. Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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I wish it wasn't called Dance Dance Revolution , just because we're not dancing..We're stepping in rhtym with the music.
I Think it really should be just callled "Step Step Revolution"
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| 18. Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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IMHO i think asian languages have a tendency to just have rhyming names for differnet things..i cant name specifics and im chinese so im not EXACTLY sure bout this
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| 19. Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Ix3.14xI wrote: | I wish it wasn't called Dance Dance Revolution , just because we're not dancing..We're stepping in rhtym with the music.
I Think it really should be just callled "Step Step Revolution" |
But isn't dancing in general just stepping to the rhythm of a song? The only difference is that you improv the whole time when dancing normally, and you do things with more than just your feet. I see your point... I mean if a guy busts out in some club and starts stepping in four different spots on the floor he'd look like an idiot... but playing regular DDR is just taking the upper body motion out of regular dancing and limiting the amount of space you use...
Am I just crazy or are you guys getting where I'm coming from? |
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