Ecchi means literally the letter H, which is short for Hentai, which means "deviant behavior". Nowadays, it just means "sex", as in "ecchi suru" -> having sex. Mostly, it means "naughty".
The "light eroticism" thing is a western usage.
Nevri posted: And it's completely irrelevant, since we live in west, so for the most part, we are forced to use it using western definition. Sure, we make fun of shoujo ai, but there's way more terms we are completely misusing compare to their actual meaning in Japanese and they pretty much became separate words in English, so for better or worse, it's just easier to stick to it than actually try to expect people to start using them correctly. I mean, how much success we had with shoujo ai so far?
Like kaizo for "obscenely difficult", when it just means modded or constructed. Which is an extra layer of irony with people making "kaizo-styled" custom levels. Like when people say "katana sword" or "blah blah-jima island" or "tsunami wave". ;p
While tidying up a post, I was clicking "preview" a few times to make sure it was shored up properly, and I started getting a spam account message dealy. How do I fix this?
