Now that I think about it, if you are calling your teachers that, it is probably in the obvious context and you're designating them an "old-timer".

actually i was thinking like the teacher hearing a word they've probably never heard before and mistaking it as an insult when it would actually be a form of respect.Sentient Satire wrote:Sempai is acknowledging someone is your senior. This even applies to someone in your peer group (or otherwise a contemporary) and they happen to be older than you. (not that I care of technicality as of right now)
Now that I think about it, if you are calling your teachers that, it is probably in the obvious context and you're designating them an "old-timer".
Sentient Satire wrote:...you're designating them an "old-timer".
I actually did get it. And although my outwardly dour nature has been known to party-poop a few jokes here and there, this isn't one of those instances. Amazingly, it is also used in the semi-disrespectful way I pointed out. Sorry, I always come across as too serious and crossing the punch-line when it was for all intents and purposes, independent of that.Bulghod wrote:...mistaking it as an insult when it would actually be a form of respect.
don't try to analyze a joke. either laugh or forget it.