107-417: EXW can stand for: Elite Xtreme Wrestling , now known as Future Stars of Wrestling . One of the tag team champions was Val Venus . Enlisted Expeditionary Warfare Specialist , a qualification badge of the U.S. Navy Explosion welding , a solid state process where welding is accomplished by accelerating one of the components at extremely high velocity through
214-600: A mixed tag team match involving the pair against the team of Chyna and Eddie Guerrero . Shortly after, Venis underwent a complete change in persona and became a member of the Right to Censor (RTC) stable. Venis joined RTC after being abducted by Bull Buchanan and The Goodfather. He became a censorship -based character, directly contrasting with his previously provocative on-screen character. Of this change, Morley said in an interview that "the porn star gimmick and storylines kind of overshadowed my work," and that he wanted
321-461: A "real woman" should be holding a women's championship. Several professional wrestlers in many promotions immediately came to Rose's defense, most notably Cody and Dustin Rhodes , and criticized Morley's views. In February 2024, Morley would receive similar backlash for an edited image of a selfie involving Cody Rhodes and a transgender flag that a trans fan brought to a WWE live event, saying that
428-668: A 30-man Interpromotional battle royal which was won by Booker T . In the summer of 2005 he formed another team, V-Squared, with Viscera . While wrestling on Heat , they squashed a number of other tag teams including the World Tag Team Champions Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch in a non-title match. On the December 5 episode of Raw , V-Squared participated in a fatal four-way match for the World Tag Team Championship, including
535-725: A 4 on 1 handicap match where the other members of the group walked out on Steven Richards. Venis stayed in RTC until they disbanded right before the Invasion storyline, feuding with Chyna and "The One" Billy Gunn during his tenure with the group. When RTC broke up in June and the Invasion began in July, Venis disappeared from WWF television while recovering from surgery on his hip to remove bone spurs from his motorcycle racing days. After recovering, he
642-637: A benefit from the in-group to the out-group) means "[I/we] explained [it] to [him/her/them]". Such beneficiary auxiliary verbs thus serve a function comparable to that of pronouns and prepositions in Indo-European languages to indicate the actor and the recipient of an action. Japanese "pronouns" also function differently from most modern Indo-European pronouns (and more like nouns) in that they can take modifiers as any other noun may. For instance, one does not say in English: The amazed he ran down
749-474: A budtender at "Health for Life" marijuana dispensary in Mesa, Arizona . In February 2020, Morley came under fire from many wrestlers and wrestling fans after making several comments criticizing All Elite Wrestling (AEW)'s decision to put their women's championship on a transgender wrestler, Nyla Rose . Morley commented on his Twitter and Facebook profiles, arguing that Rose was a biological man and saying only
856-594: A complex system of honorifics , with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. The Japanese writing system combines Chinese characters , known as kanji ( 漢字 , ' Han characters') , with two unique syllabaries (or moraic scripts) derived by the Japanese from the more complex Chinese characters: hiragana ( ひらがな or 平仮名 , 'simple characters') and katakana ( カタカナ or 片仮名 , 'partial characters'). Latin script ( rōmaji ローマ字 )
963-414: A distinct language of its own that has absorbed various aspects from neighboring languages. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version. Elongated vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel (a macron ) in rōmaji , a repeated vowel character in hiragana , or a chōonpu succeeding the vowel in katakana . /u/ ( listen )
1070-432: A dozen more bone spurs were removed, six others were shaved down, and a nerve was transplanted. While he was out, Viscera began teaming with Charlie Haas , leaving Venis to team with Snitsky upon his return in a team that didn't last long. Venis began a feud with Eugene on Heat when Eugene interrupted and attacked him during a "Kiss Cam" segment on December 4. On the following episode of Heat , Venis and Eugene had
1177-609: A feud with Droz and Albert . The next week on Raw , Venis and Godfather, Droz and Albert, and the Acolytes challenged the Hardys to a fatal four-way elimination tag team match for the titles, where the Hardys went on to retain the titles. He started a feud with Steve Blackman and defeated him at Unforgiven . His next feud was with Mark Henry, whom he beat at Rebellion . He engaged in feuds with several main eventers including The Rock , Mankind , and Steve Austin . on
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#17327809564261284-740: A feud with Chyna, culminating in a match at Armageddon which Venis won. At the Royal Rumble , Venis competed in the Royal Rumble match where he was eliminated by The Undertaker . At WrestleMania X-Seven , RTC faced Tazz and the APA in a six-man tag match which RTC lost. The next night on Raw , he faced Kane for the Hardcore Championship but lost the match. On the April 26 episode of SmackDown! , RTC faced The Undertaker in
1391-419: A glide /j/ and either the first part of a geminate consonant ( っ / ッ , represented as Q) or a moraic nasal in the coda ( ん / ン , represented as N). The nasal is sensitive to its phonetic environment and assimilates to the following phoneme, with pronunciations including [ɴ, m, n, ɲ, ŋ, ɰ̃] . Onset-glide clusters only occur at the start of syllables but clusters across syllables are allowed as long as
1498-764: A legitimate neck injury which limited his mobility. At King of the Ring in 2000, Venis participated in the King of the Ring tournament where he defeated Eddie Guerrero in the Quarter-Finals but was defeated by Rikishi in the semi-finals. This culminated in a feud between Venis and Rikishi which led to Venis turning heel by aligning himself with Trish Stratus . On the July 6, 2000 episode of Smackdown, he defeated Rikishi to win his second Intercontinental Championship, and aligned himself with Test and Albert. Venis and Rikishi continued their rivalry as Venis defended
1605-484: A listener depending on the listener's relative social position and the degree of familiarity between the speaker and the listener. When used in different social relationships, the same word may have positive (intimate or respectful) or negative (distant or disrespectful) connotations. Japanese often use titles of the person referred to where pronouns would be used in English. For example, when speaking to one's teacher, it
1712-417: A match which Eugene won. On the December 18 episode of Raw , Val participated in a #1 contender's battle royal, won by Edge. In February 2007, WWE.com launched a new broadband network giving fans an opportunity to access free videos, and Venis was given his own show called Sex-U . The show would see Venis and a special guest offering love tips to the viewing audience. Sex-U was the most popular show in
1819-546: A more serious persona to better highlight his in-ring abilities and move towards being one of the WWF's top heels. Morley has gone on record saying, the RTC character was his least favorite character, since he lost the core of his previous character and it was hard to wrestle wearing a tie and t-shirt. RTC feuded with the Acolytes and the Dudley Boyz , culminating in an eight-man tag team match at Unforgiven , which RTC won. On
1926-493: A pre-show number one contender's battle royal, with the winner facing ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero later that night. Kane went on to win the battle royal. On the April 7 episode of Raw , Venis fell to Umaga . On the April 14 tapings for Heat , he lost his last WWE match to Snitsky. Morley spent the rest of 2008 out of action due to an injury, during which WWE transitioned to the more family-friendly PG Era and his traditional porn star gimmick would no longer be appropriate for
2033-408: A sentence need not be stated and pronouns may be omitted if they can be inferred from context. In the example above, hana ga nagai would mean "[their] noses are long", while nagai by itself would mean "[they] are long." A single verb can be a complete sentence: Yatta! ( やった! ) "[I / we / they / etc] did [it]!". In addition, since adjectives can form the predicate in a Japanese sentence (below),
2140-428: A single adjective can be a complete sentence: Urayamashii! ( 羨ましい! ) "[I'm] jealous [about it]!". While the language has some words that are typically translated as pronouns, these are not used as frequently as pronouns in some Indo-European languages, and function differently. In some cases, Japanese relies on special verb forms and auxiliary verbs to indicate the direction of benefit of an action: "down" to indicate
2247-547: A six tag intergender match at Wrestlecon Joey Ryan's Penis Party in New York City. Morley speaks social Spanish , which he learned during the time he spent in Mexican lucha libre promotions. His sister, Alannah Morley, was married to Adam "Edge" Copeland between 2001 and 2004, after she had been in a relationship with Copeland since 1998. Morley is an advocate for the legalisation of cannabis , and now works as
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#17327809564262354-1581: A special IWC Nights of Legends event. Three events later Venis challenged John McChesney for the IWC World Heavyweight Championship but was unsuccessful. In late 2011, Morley returned to Canada wrestling for Championship Wrestling International, Venis defeated former World Tag Team Champion Sylvain Grenier in Lindsay, Ontario , Canada. The following day Venis defeated Chris Masters at CWI Fall Brawl 2 in Caledonia, Ontario , Canada. On June 1, 2012, Morley lost to former WWE wrestler and tag partner Big Daddy V in New York City for ECPW Five Boros. In 2013 Morley returned to Canada working in Manitoba's Canadian Wrestling's Elite and 2014 in British Columbia's Elite Canadian Championship Wrestling and Invasion Championship Wrestling where he reunited with his former WWE tag partner The Godfather . Morley toured in England for House of Pain: Evolution where he defeated Marty Scurll in Derby, England on June 19, 2015. On April 5, 2019, Morley teamed with Joey Ryan and SeXXXy Eddy losing to Scarlett Bordeaux , Priscilla Kelly and Martina in
2461-582: A storyline where he slept with other people's wives. He started a feud with Dustin Runnels , on the September 14 episode of Raw when Venis showed Runnels his new porn movie, featuring Venis in bed with Dustin's wife, Terri Runnels . She then became his on-screen girlfriend. This culminated in a match at Breakdown: In Your House , which Venis won. On the October 12 episode of Raw , Venis participated in
2568-400: A sword. The next week, however, he reported that he was saved by "a little shrinkage " and help from his friend, John Wayne Bobbitt . He then challenged the four Japanese wrestlers to a match, which they accepted under the conditions that it must be a gauntlet match , meaning that Venis would have to fight all four of them individually in one match. The match ended with Michinoku executing
2675-490: A tournament for the Intercontinental Championship , defeating Marc Mero in the first round before losing in the semifinals to Ken Shamrock . On the same night, Runnels returned to his Goldust gimmick. Venis continued his feud with Goldust, with Goldust gaining a victory at Judgment Day: In Your House . The two faced each other again at Capital Carnage , and Val went on to win the match, to end
2782-624: Is compressed rather than protruded , or simply unrounded. Some Japanese consonants have several allophones , which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic. For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence /ti/ was palatalized and realized phonetically as [tɕi] , approximately chi ( listen ) ; however, now [ti] and [tɕi] are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī [tiː] "Western-style tea" and chii [tɕii] "social status". The "r" of
2889-412: Is a "criminal organization." His channel features several videos of Morley attempting to film in facilities that prohibit video recording, and the resulting confrontations with security and law enforcement officers, a practice described by practitioners as " First Amendment audits ". Morley has on multiple occasions posted COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on his social media pages. In January 2021, Morley
2996-448: Is also seen in o-medetō "congratulations", from medetaku ). Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan ("bread") and tabako ("tobacco", now "cigarette"), both from Portuguese . Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the Edo period (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese,
3103-527: Is also used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms) in Japanese writing. The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals , but also traditional Chinese numerals . Proto-Japonic , the common ancestor of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages , is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from the Korean peninsula sometime in the early- to mid-4th century BC (the Yayoi period ), replacing
3210-643: Is an agglutinative , mora -timed language with relatively simple phonotactics , a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent . Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment . Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender , and there are no articles . Verbs are conjugated , primarily for tense and voice , but not person . Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has
3317-440: Is appropriate to use sensei ( 先生 , "teacher"), but inappropriate to use anata . This is because anata is used to refer to people of equal or lower status, and one's teacher has higher status. Japanese nouns have no grammatical number, gender or article aspect. The noun hon ( 本 ) may refer to a single book or several books; hito ( 人 ) can mean "person" or "people", and ki ( 木 ) can be "tree" or "trees". Where number
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3424-701: Is associated with comedy (see Kansai dialect ). Dialects of Tōhoku and North Kantō are associated with typical farmers. The Ryūkyūan languages, spoken in Okinawa and the Amami Islands (administratively part of Kagoshima ), are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family; not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who speak other Ryūkyūan languages. However, in contrast to linguists, many ordinary Japanese people tend to consider
3531-466: Is better documentation of Late Middle Japanese phonology than for previous forms (for instance, the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ). Among other sound changes, the sequence /au/ merges to /ɔː/ , in contrast with /oː/ ; /p/ is reintroduced from Chinese; and /we/ merges with /je/ . Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending - te begins to reduce onto
3638-509: Is correlated with the sex of the speaker and the social situation in which they are spoken: men and women alike in a formal situation generally refer to themselves as watashi ( 私 , literally "private") or watakushi (also 私 , hyper-polite form), while men in rougher or intimate conversation are much more likely to use the word ore ( 俺 "oneself", "myself") or boku . Similarly, different words such as anata , kimi , and omae ( お前 , more formally 御前 "the one before me") may refer to
3745-693: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Val Venus Sean Allen Morley (born March 6, 1971), better known by his ring name Val Venis , is a Canadian retired professional wrestler . He is best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE) from 1998 to 2009. He has also worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . During his career in WWF/WWE, Venis held
3852-417: Is important, it can be indicated by providing a quantity (often with a counter word ) or (rarely) by adding a suffix, or sometimes by duplication (e.g. 人人 , hitobito , usually written with an iteration mark as 人々 ). Words for people are usually understood as singular. Thus Tanaka-san usually means Mx Tanaka . Words that refer to people and animals can be made to indicate a group of individuals through
3959-556: Is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese . Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and
4066-755: Is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility , a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tōhoku dialects ) to students from Greater Tokyo were the Kiso dialect (in the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture ), the Himi dialect (in Toyama Prefecture ), the Kagoshima dialect and the Maniwa dialect (in Okayama Prefecture ). The survey
4173-420: Is often called a topic-prominent language , which means it has a strong tendency to indicate the topic separately from the subject, and that the two do not always coincide. The sentence Zō wa hana ga nagai ( 象は鼻が長い ) literally means, "As for elephant(s), (the) nose(s) (is/are) long". The topic is zō "elephant", and the subject is hana "nose". Japanese grammar tends toward brevity; the subject or object of
4280-498: Is preserved in words such as matsuge ("eyelash", lit. "hair of the eye"); modern mieru ("to be visible") and kikoeru ("to be audible") retain a mediopassive suffix - yu(ru) ( kikoyu → kikoyuru (the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period) → kikoeru (all verbs with the shimo-nidan conjugation pattern underwent this same shift in Early Modern Japanese )); and
4387-402: Is the version of Japanese discussed in this article. Formerly, standard Japanese in writing ( 文語 , bungo , "literary language") was different from colloquial language ( 口語 , kōgo ) . The two systems have different rules of grammar and some variance in vocabulary. Bungo was the main method of writing Japanese until about 1900; since then kōgo gradually extended its influence and
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4494-471: Is used for the present and the future. For verbs that represent an ongoing process, the -te iru form indicates a continuous (or progressive) aspect , similar to the suffix ing in English. For others that represent a change of state, the -te iru form indicates a perfect aspect. For example, kite iru means "They have come (and are still here)", but tabete iru means "They are eating". Questions (both with an interrogative pronoun and yes/no questions) have
4601-405: Is why some linguists do not classify Japanese "pronouns" as pronouns, but rather as referential nouns, much like Spanish usted (contracted from vuestra merced , "your ( majestic plural ) grace") or Portuguese você (from vossa mercê ). Japanese personal pronouns are generally used only in situations requiring special emphasis as to who is doing what to whom. The choice of words used as pronouns
4708-745: The Intercontinental Championship twice , the European Championship once , and the World Tag Team Championship once with Lance Storm . As the masked Steele , he was the youngest person to win the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship . He began his wrestling training in the early 1990s under the tutelage of Jason and Dewey "The Missing Link" Robertson and debuted on the Canadian independent circuit before making his way to
4815-517: The Japonic language family, which also includes the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands . As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is sometimes called a language isolate . According to Martine Irma Robbeets , Japanese has been subject to more attempts to show its relation to other languages than any other language in
4922-484: The Michinoku Driver on Venis and getting the three-count, ending his undefeated streak. The feud ended a week later, after Venis fought Michinoku to a no contest. After feuding with Kaientai, Venis got his first title shot in the WWF at SummerSlam 1998 against European Champion D'Lo Brown for his championship. Venis was disqualified and as a result, Brown retained the title. Venis got involved in
5029-514: The Philippines , and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. As a result, many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil , with 1.4 million to 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than
5136-738: The United States (notably in Hawaii , where 16.7% of the population has Japanese ancestry, and California ), and the Philippines (particularly in Davao Region and the Province of Laguna ). Japanese has no official status in Japan, but is the de facto national language of the country. There is a form of the language considered standard : hyōjungo ( 標準語 ) , meaning "standard Japanese", or kyōtsūgo ( 共通語 ) , "common language", or even "Tokyo dialect" at times. The meanings of
5243-406: The brand extension . On SmackDown! , he began calling himself "The Big Valbowski" and he aligned himself with babyfaces Edge , Randy Orton , Billy Kidman , and Hardcore Holly and feuded with Chris Jericho , Deacon Batista , and Reverend D-Von . In June, Venis competed in the 2002 King of the Ring tournament. He defeated Christian in the first round, then lost to Chris Jericho in
5350-806: The de facto standard Japanese had been the Kansai dialect , especially that of Kyoto . However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese. Since the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. The period since 1945 has seen many words borrowed from other languages—such as German, Portuguese and English. Many English loan words especially relate to technology—for example, pasokon (short for "personal computer"), intānetto ("internet"), and kamera ("camera"). Due to
5457-527: The 1.2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language. Approximately 12% of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12.6% of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008. Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru , Argentina , Australia (especially in the eastern states), Canada (especially in Vancouver , where 1.4% of the population has Japanese ancestry),
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#17327809564265564-514: The Brood . at Royal Rumble , Venis competed in the Royal Rumble match where he was eliminated by Triple H , On the February 1, 1999 episode of Raw , he started a feud with Intercontinental Champion Ken Shamrock after Venis made a film starring him and Shamrock's kayfabe sister Ryan called Saving Ryan's Privates . At St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House , Venis defeated Shamrock with
5671-578: The Intercontinental title in a Four Corners Elimination match which also included Ken Shamrock and Goldust. Venis failed to win the match. Throughout the rest of the year, he found himself having "woman troubles" with Nicole Bass , Chyna , and Debra . At Over the Edge , Venis and Nicole Bass defeated Jeff Jarrett and Debra, Venis reunited with the Godfather and they began challenging for
5778-518: The January 4, 2010, episode of Impact! in a backstage segment with The Beautiful People . On the January 14 episode of Impact! Morley had another segment, complete with revamped theme music, where he explained that he was no longer an adult film star, but rather an adult film producer. This led to Daniels coming to the ring and attacking him, setting up a match at the Genesis pay-per-view. At
5885-486: The Japanese language is of particular interest, ranging between an apical central tap and a lateral approximant . The "g" is also notable; unless it starts a sentence, it may be pronounced [ ŋ ] , in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects. The phonotactics of Japanese are relatively simple. The syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), that is, a core vowel surrounded by an optional onset consonant,
5992-510: The March 30 episode of Raw is War , vignettes started to air that showcased Venis' lifestyle on and off the set. The most notable of these aired on May 4 and featured Venis with prominent real-life porn star Jenna Jameson . During this time he worked in dark matches while building up for his debut. He debuted on the May 18, 1998 episode of Raw , defeating Scorpio . Almost immediately, he
6099-645: The November 18 episode on Raw under his real name, Sean Morley. He was appointed Raw "Chief of Staff" by Raw General Manager , Eric Bischoff , turning heel once again by acting as Bischoff's assistant and going by Chief Morley. Morley began a feud with the Dudley Boyz in March 2003. On the March 24, 2003 episode of Raw , he officially became one half of the World Tag Team Champions with Lance Storm after Storm's partner, William Regal ,
6206-488: The October 12 episode of SmackDown! , Venis got a shot at the WWF Championship against The Rock but failed to win the title. At No Mercy , Venis teamed up with Steven Richards to face Chyna and Mr. Ass . After interference from Eddie Guerrero, RTC picked up the win. On the November 6 episode of Raw , Venis lost to The Undertaker. On the November 23 episode of SmackDown! , Venis defeated K-Kwik. Venis started
6313-559: The October 21 episode of SmackDown! , Venis faced Stone Cold Steve Austin in the main event where he lost. At No Mercy , Venis faced Mankind in a winning effort. In late 1999, Venis started a feud with European Champion The British Bulldog over the title. At Survivor Series , Venis teamed up with Mark Henry, Gangrel , and Steve Blackman to face the British Bulldog and the Mean Street Posse with his team winning
6420-736: The Old Japanese sections are written in Man'yōgana , which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can be reconstructed as having 88 distinct morae . Texts written with Man'yōgana use two different sets of kanji for each of the morae now pronounced き (ki), ひ (hi), み (mi), け (ke), へ (he), め (me), こ (ko), そ (so), と (to), の (no), も (mo), よ (yo) and ろ (ro). (The Kojiki has 88, but all later texts have 87. The distinction between mo 1 and mo 2 apparently
6527-488: The Ryūkyūan languages as dialects of Japanese. The imperial court also seems to have spoken an unusual variant of the Japanese of the time, most likely the spoken form of Classical Japanese , a writing style that was prevalent during the Heian period , but began to decline during the late Meiji period . The Ryūkyūan languages are classified by UNESCO as 'endangered', as young people mostly use Japanese and cannot understand
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#17327809564266634-487: The September 14, 2003 episode of Heat , he faced Christian in another match for the Intercontinental Championship, which Christian won. He reformed his previous tag team with Lance Storm as faces, but the partnership faded and Venis became utilized mainly as a " jobber to the stars ". At Armageddon , Venis and Storm competed in a Tag Team Turmoil match for the World Tag Team Championship which
6741-577: The Tag Team titles. on the May 24 episode of Raw , Venis was defeated by The Rock in the main event. Venis then entered the 1999 King of the Ring tournament but was eliminated in the first round by Chyna . On the July 12 episode of Raw , Venis and The Godfather faced the Hardy Boyz for the titles, but the Hardy Boyz retained the titles by getting disqualified. Venis and the Godfather started
6848-543: The addition of a collective suffix (a noun suffix that indicates a group), such as -tachi , but this is not a true plural: the meaning is closer to the English phrase "and company". A group described as Tanaka-san-tachi may include people not named Tanaka. Some Japanese nouns are effectively plural, such as hitobito "people" and wareware "we/us", while the word tomodachi "friend" is considered singular, although plural in form. Verbs are conjugated to show tenses, of which there are two: past and present (or non-past) which
6955-416: The champions Big Show and Kane , The Heart Throbs , and Snitsky and Tyson Tomko but were defeated. Venis and Viscera continued to team in 2006, getting another shot at Big Show and Kane 's titles, while occasionally having solo matches. In March 2006, Venis suffered a kayfabe injury at the hands of the Spirit Squad which allowed him to take time off for legitimate elbow surgery, during which about
7062-484: The company's target demographics of children. On January 9, 2009, he was released from his WWE contract after over a decade of working for the company. After his release from WWE, Morley toured in Japan with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), losing to Hiroshi Tanahashi on March 22, 2009, and with Hulk Hogan 's Hulkamania: Let the Battle Begin tour of the world which started in Melbourne , Australia . Morley made his debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on
7169-415: The effect of changing Japanese into a mora-timed language. Late Middle Japanese covers the years from 1185 to 1600, and is normally divided into two sections, roughly equivalent to the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period , respectively. The later forms of Late Middle Japanese are the first to be described by non-native sources, in this case the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries; and thus there
7276-453: The feud, Marella gave Venis a sneak attack, causing him an injury. The two had a match on the October 15 episode of Raw , which Marella won. On the February 18, 2008 episode of Raw , he lost to Mr. Kennedy in a Money in the Bank qualifying match. On the March 25 episode of ECW on Sci Fi , he participated in a twelve-on-twelve tag team match involving all the participants of the battle royal. At WrestleMania XXIV , he participated in
7383-405: The feud. When Terri said she was pregnant, Val dumped her. At the end of the year, he formed a short lived tag team with The Godfather , unofficially dubbed "Supply and Demand". They began teaming on the December 7 episode of Raw against The Acolytes . Their team only lasted a week, including a match against Mark Henry and D'Lo Brown at Rock Bottom: In Your House , and a match against
7490-423: The first appearance of European loanwords . The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo ) in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid 19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly, and words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese
7597-410: The first three months of the new broadband network and its four episodes were streamed more than 800,000 times. No new episodes were made after this and the show was removed from WWE.com without reason shortly afterwards. On the March 19, 2007 episode of Raw , he participated in a Money in the Bank qualifying battle royal, won by Edge . In late 2007, he began a feud with Santino Marella . During
7704-592: The first time in TNA. However, the next day Morley announced on his Facebook page that largely due to the move of Impact! to Monday nights , his original plan to wrestle for both TNA and CMLL had to change and therefore he was done with TNA. Morley worked with Elite Xtreme Wrestling now known as Future Stars of Wrestling as Val Venis where he was a former EXW Tag Team Champion with Dexter Verity. On April 16, 2011, Venis defeated Rhett Titus in Franklin, Pennsylvania for
7811-609: The genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech. Early Middle Japanese is the Japanese of the Heian period , from 794 to 1185. It formed the basis for the literary standard of Classical Japanese , which remained in common use until the early 20th century. During this time, Japanese underwent numerous phonological developments, in many cases instigated by an influx of Chinese loanwords . These included phonemic length distinction for both consonants and vowels , palatal consonants (e.g. kya ) and labial consonant clusters (e.g. kwa ), and closed syllables . This had
7918-520: The help of special guest referee Billy Gunn to win the Intercontinental Championship. The next night on Raw , Venis defended the title against Gunn and retained the title. A few days later, he broke up with Ryan and eventually lost the Intercontinental Title to Road Dogg after only a one-month reign as champion. Venis began a feud with Road Dogg and made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania XV , where he challenged for
8025-698: The international circuit, finding work with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in Japan , Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Promo Azteca , International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) in Mexico , International Wrestling Association (IWA) and World Wrestling Council (WWC) in Puerto Rico where he was one half of a tag team known as the Canadian Glamour Boys with Shane Sewell they were two time WWC World Tag Team Champions . In Japan, he
8132-458: The languages of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language . Because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence, and anything that can be discerned about this period must be based on internal reconstruction from Old Japanese , or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects . The Chinese writing system
8239-449: The languages. Okinawan Japanese is a variant of Standard Japanese influenced by the Ryūkyūan languages, and is the primary dialect spoken among young people in the Ryukyu Islands . Modern Japanese has become prevalent nationwide (including the Ryūkyū islands) due to education , mass media , and an increase in mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration. Japanese is a member of
8346-427: The large quantity of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between [tɕi] and [ti] , and [dʑi] and [di] , with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords. Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has also been spoken outside of the country. Before and during World War II , through Japanese annexation of Taiwan and Korea , as well as partial occupation of China ,
8453-700: The match. At Armageddon , Venis pinned the British Bulldog in a triple threat match with D-Lo Brown to win the WWF European Championship . on the January 10 episode of Raw, Venis defeated Edge to retain the title. At the Royal Rumble , Venis competed in the Royal Rumble match where he was eliminated by Kane . On the February 10, 2000 episode of SmackDown! , he dropped the European Title to Kurt Angle , ending his two-month reign. Around this time, Morley largely disappeared from WWF television programming until mid-May, due to
8560-609: The only country where it is the national language , and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language . There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu , Austronesian , Koreanic , and the now-discredited Altaic , but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little
8667-425: The only strict rule of word order is that the verb must be placed at the end of a sentence (possibly followed by sentence-end particles). This is because Japanese sentence elements are marked with particles that identify their grammatical functions. The basic sentence structure is topic–comment . For example, Kochira wa Tanaka-san desu ( こちらは田中さんです ). kochira ("this") is the topic of the sentence, indicated by
8774-470: The out-group gives a benefit to the in-group, and "up" to indicate the in-group gives a benefit to the out-group. Here, the in-group includes the speaker and the out-group does not, and their boundary depends on context. For example, oshiete moratta ( 教えてもらった ) (literally, "explaining got" with a benefit from the out-group to the in-group) means "[he/she/they] explained [it] to [me/us]". Similarly, oshiete ageta ( 教えてあげた ) (literally, "explaining gave" with
8881-415: The particle wa . The verb desu is a copula , commonly translated as "to be" or "it is" (though there are other verbs that can be translated as "to be"), though technically it holds no meaning and is used to give a sentence 'politeness'. As a phrase, Tanaka-san desu is the comment. This sentence literally translates to "As for this person, (it) is Mx Tanaka." Thus Japanese, like many other Asian languages,
8988-420: The pay-per-view Morley defeated Daniels in his first match for the company with his patented Money Shot. On the January 28 episode of Impact! Morley suffered his first loss in TNA, losing to Desmond Wolfe in an 8 Card Stud Tournament qualifying match. On the March 4, 2010, episode of Impact! , Morley pinned Jeff Jarrett in an impromptu Falls Count Anywhere match by order of Eric Bischoff , turning heel for
9095-481: The proposed larger Altaic family, or to various Southeast Asian languages , especially Austronesian . None of these proposals have gained wide acceptance (and the Altaic family itself is now considered controversial). As it stands, only the link to Ryukyuan has wide support. Other theories view the Japanese language as an early creole language formed through inputs from at least two distinct language groups, or as
9202-465: The quarterfinals. Morley was sidelined with a legitimate neck injury and laceration in late July, after gym equipment fell on him in Canada . He returned to wrestling SmackDown! dark matches in September, and made his last televised appearance as Val Venis on October 26 at Rebellion , where he teamed with Chuck Palumbo in a loss to Reverend D-Von and Ron Simmons . He returned to television on
9309-459: The same structure as affirmative sentences, but with intonation rising at the end. In the formal register, the question particle -ka is added. For example, ii desu ( いいです ) "It is OK" becomes ii desu-ka ( いいですか。 ) "Is it OK?". In a more informal tone sometimes the particle -no ( の ) is added instead to show a personal interest of the speaker: Dōshite konai-no? "Why aren't (you) coming?". Some simple queries are formed simply by mentioning
9416-817: The state as at the time the constitution was written, many of the elders participating in the process had been educated in Japanese during the South Seas Mandate over the island shown by the 1958 census of the Trust Territory of the Pacific that found that 89% of Palauans born between 1914 and 1933 could speak and read Japanese, but as of the 2005 Palau census there were no residents of Angaur that spoke Japanese at home. Japanese dialects typically differ in terms of pitch accent , inflectional morphology , vocabulary , and particle usage. Some even differ in vowel and consonant inventories, although this
9523-481: The street. (grammatically incorrect insertion of a pronoun) But one can grammatically say essentially the same thing in Japanese: 驚いた彼は道を走っていった。 Transliteration: Odoroita kare wa michi o hashitte itta. (grammatically correct) This is partly because these words evolved from regular nouns, such as kimi "you" ( 君 "lord"), anata "you" ( あなた "that side, yonder"), and boku "I" ( 僕 "servant"). This
9630-447: The title in a rematch at Fully Loaded . The match was notable for seeing Venis take a splash from Rikishi from the top of a 15-foot high steel cage and still going on to defeat Rikishi to retain the title. Soon after, Venis began sporting a new look that included a haircut, white boots and trunks - and the near total disposal of the porn star gimmick. At SummerSlam , Stratus inadvertently lost Venis' Intercontinental title to Chyna in
9737-621: The trans fan "needs the power of Jesus to affirm their salvation instead of affirming a mental disorder." Mat Koon, a wrestling podcast host and musician, would later buy the valvenis.com domain and have it redirected to the National Center for Transgender Equality 's website. Morley has been known to express libertarian political beliefs and to be a believer in QAnon conspiracy theories. On his YouTube channel, "Top Shelf Anarchy," he advocates for anarchy and claims that "the government "
9844-419: The two consonants are the moraic nasal followed by a homorganic consonant. Japanese also includes a pitch accent , which is not represented in moraic writing; for example [haꜜ.ɕi] ("chopsticks") and [ha.ɕiꜜ] ("bridge") are both spelled はし ( hashi ) , and are only differentiated by the tone contour. Japanese word order is classified as subject–object–verb . Unlike many Indo-European languages ,
9951-577: The two methods were both used in writing until the 1940s. Bungo still has some relevance for historians, literary scholars, and lawyers (many Japanese laws that survived World War II are still written in bungo , although there are ongoing efforts to modernize their language). Kōgo is the dominant method of both speaking and writing Japanese today, although bungo grammar and vocabulary are occasionally used in modern Japanese for effect. The 1982 state constitution of Angaur , Palau , names Japanese along with Palauan and English as an official language of
10058-480: The two terms (''hyōjungo'' and ''kyōtsūgo'') are almost the same. Hyōjungo or kyōtsūgo is a conception that forms the counterpart of dialect. This normative language was born after the Meiji Restoration ( 明治維新 , meiji ishin , 1868) from the language spoken in the higher-class areas of Tokyo (see Yamanote ). Hyōjungo is taught in schools and used on television and in official communications. It
10165-545: The use of chemical explosives Ex Works , Incoterm term where the seller makes the goods available at its premises Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title EXW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EXW&oldid=543788101 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
10272-407: The verb (e.g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the -k- in the final mora of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form (e.g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ , where modern Japanese just has hayaku , though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu "good morning"; this ending
10379-548: The world. Since Japanese first gained the consideration of linguists in the late 19th century, attempts have been made to show its genealogical relation to languages or language families such as Ainu , Korean , Chinese , Tibeto-Burman , Uralic , Altaic (or Ural-Altaic ), Austroasiatic , Austronesian and Dravidian . At the fringe, some linguists have even suggested a link to Indo-European languages , including Greek , or to Sumerian . Main modern theories try to link Japanese either to northern Asian languages, like Korean or
10486-539: Was based on 12- to 20-second-long recordings of 135 to 244 phonemes , which 42 students listened to and translated word-for-word. The listeners were all Keio University students who grew up in the Kanto region . There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island , whose dialects are descended from Eastern Old Japanese . Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular
10593-735: Was imported to Japan from Baekje around the start of the fifth century, alongside Buddhism. The earliest texts were written in Classical Chinese , although some of these were likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanese grammar such as Japanese word order. The earliest text, the Kojiki , dates to the early eighth century, and was written entirely in Chinese characters, which are used to represent, at different times, Chinese, kanbun , and Old Japanese. As in other texts from this period,
10700-644: Was involved in an angle with the Kaientai stable , involving him having an affair with Yamaguchi-San's kayfabe wife, Shian-Li Tsang. As a result, the members of Kaientai had a series of unsuccessful matches against him. Venis made his pay-per-view debut at Fully Loaded: In Your House , defeating Jeff Jarrett . On the August 3 episode of Raw , his tag team partner Taka Michinoku would eventually betray him, which led to him and Kaientai tying Venis up backstage where Yamaguchi-San attempted to castrate him with
10807-533: Was kept off television along with several other wrestlers, for whom WWF bookers could not come up with any storylines. Instead, he worked in WWF's developmental territory Heartland Wrestling Association in late 2001. Venis returned to action back in his old gimmick, at the 2002 Royal Rumble , where he entered at #20 in the Royal Rumble match but was shortly after eliminated by Steve Austin. On Raw he had two very short feuds with Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mr. Perfect before being drafted to SmackDown! during
10914-534: Was known as Sean Morgan as the name Morley was difficult to pronounce due to the lack of phonetic differences between the L and R in Japanese . In Mexico, he adopted a robot-like mask and gimmick , changed his name to Steele, and won the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship . Morley was signed to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1998 and given the gimmick of an adult movie star named "Val Venis". The night after WrestleMania XIV , on
11021-474: Was lost immediately following its composition.) This set of morae shrank to 67 in Early Middle Japanese , though some were added through Chinese influence. Man'yōgana also has a symbol for /je/ , which merges with /e/ before the end of the period. Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no )
11128-427: Was on the line. He was quickly "rehired" by co-General Manager, Stone Cold Steve Austin. After returning as Val Venis, he participated in a battle royal at Judgment Day for the vacant Intercontinental Championship, won by Christian . Throughout mid-2003, 2004, and the first half of 2005, Venis became a face again, but did not get much in the way of a push . Venis began wrestling as a mid-carder on Heat and on
11235-432: Was sidelined with an illness. Storm and Morley successfully defended the World Tag Team Championship on the episode of Heat prior to WrestleMania XIX at Safeco Field against Rob Van Dam and Kane with help from the Dudley Boyz, only to lose them to Kane and Van Dam the next night. Morley was "fired" from his assistant job by Bischoff after he lost a match to Jerry "The King" Lawler in which Jim Ross ' job
11342-429: Was temporarily banned from Twitter for violating their child sexual exploitation policy after posting a photo which he claimed showed Hunter Biden having sex with Malia Obama . Japanese language Japanese ( 日本語 , Nihongo , [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people . It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan ,
11449-462: Was won by Batista and Ric Flair. In 2005, he started shaving his head bald . He defeated Ring of Honor wrestler and future WWE Champion CM Punk in Punk's first WWE tryout match on May 9, 2005, which led to CM Punk getting a contract and being sent to developmental. On the January 2 episode of Heat , Venis lost to Ric Flair in the main event of the night. At WrestleMania 21 , Venis competed in
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