This is because in most cases, the word 'й¦¬й№ї' is simply written, and the words 'е¤§й¦¬й№ї' and 'е°Џй¦¬й№ї' are rarely used. However, I don't think these are often used to emphasize stupidity (or vice versa). except for when I was a student.ДЄs far as I know, there are words to describe the strength of stupidity, such as е¤§й¦¬й№ї and е°Џй¦¬й№ї. Overseas people use 'baka' lightly (I think it's because of baka mitai, or some animation), but as a Japanese person, I don't have many opportunities to slander people. How would you make these distinctions in Japanese?ДЇirst things first - 99% of the time, the word 'гѓђг‚«' written on BBS is simply slander and has little to no joking meaning. You see, a lot of fine distinctions I can handle without problem in my mother tongue, but already not even in English. But that's the 'institutionalized' version - Nasreddin rather would be a 'Schelm' - 'fusei'?) (And I if I enter it in English, 'dokeshi'. Google Translate, which I never trust in such a case, gives 'naibu' for the former (no translation at all) and 'baka' (sic!) for the latter. Note there are even more German connotations of the 'mentally challenged': the 'Tor'/naive (think Perceval) and the 'Narr'/jester (think Nasreddin).

So, how could you vary the baka making the sense obvious even outside of face-to-face communication? (I guess if a friend says it to another with a big grin on a face, it can't be misunderstood - or are Japanese customs of interaction totally different?) I would be very surprised if Japanese doesn't have the same possibilities as German here. I once made the error of calling someone a 'baka' on the Internet, I thought the whole context made it obvious the second variant was meant. Here in Germany I can call someone an idiot with included 'grading': I can load it with surplus despise ('Sie Vollpfosten!'), or I can make it almost tender using dialect ('Du DГ¶spaddel!').

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