Huh?

[Ravisan]

Just a quick question...
What the heck does GETS mean? I hear it and see it all the time.
And OO suru? and just O?
Anyone know?
Thanks.

[Sukerkin]

Interesting ... hmmm ... could "Gets" be an abbreviation for Getsuyobi (Monday)? "Suru" means to do something or make a decision and 'O' means big or important so O-suru could mean something like "big deal" or "important decision".

My Japanese is far too poor for those to be anything but guesses tho'. Anyone with better knowledge able to help us out here?

[Paul Griswold]

That's a Hitomi question for sure. But obviously "gets" by itself is not Japanese at all. You'd have to write "getsu" since you can't end with the letter S alone.

Can you give some sentence examples?

[Ravisan]

I read a lot of japanese blogs and evertime I see GETS its written in english but in the middle of the sentence, no kana is used at all, same with OO suru. Then I was watching the special features of cromartie high and one of the actors suddenly yells "GETS" and they captioned it at the bottom as exactly "GETS" no kana, and everything else was in regular japanese. I see OO a lot also. But that is exactly how it is written, no kana. I saw it recently in a blog, so i'll hunt around for the sentence and post it tomorrow, thanks everyone.

[Ravisan]

Here's an example of O

たまプラ～ザで仕◯中

[Denarah]

Hey I found this while looking for something else (the word for "also") in Jim Breen's dictionary. This is directly from that source. Hopefully someone who KNOWS will say if that is right or if there is another meaning of usage of just O.
-------------------------------Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ｘｘ 【ちょめちょめ】 (n) (sometimes also **, ○○, etc.) (See 伏せ字) (m-sl) blankety-blank; used in place of sensitive word (often sexually related)
----------------------------------http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1F----------...

[Sukerkin]

That's an interesting find, Denarah :rei:.

Would that fit with the context you've seen this in, Ravisan?

[Paul Griswold]

Hitomi says this is correct. It's used in place of an expletive. It's like writing sh!t - you know what I wrote but I didn't write the real word.

[いちごIchigo]

All I know is that O means big or major. Like in Martial arts there is a throw called O Soto Gari - Big outside Leg reap.

[Ravisan]

any basic japanese student knows this.
That is not what i'm talking about,,but i got my answer already.
It is usually used in place of another word that could be lewd or the speaker doesn't want to openly say.
ayway,
thanks for the input.

[Paul Griswold]

Max is right. O is an honorific. You can say "satou" （砂糖） or "osatou" （お砂糖）and they mean the same thing - putting o before it is more polite.