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Maulkin
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|  Subject: Only In Japan  Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:42 pm | |
| The title should be clear enough to figure out what to do, but in case you can't...
Edit: Try to limit yourself to one or two pictures per post.
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Oblivion
Lurking Grue
Age : 23
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:29 am | |
| Those poor girls look terrified or extremely unhappy.
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Maulkin
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:34 am | |
| Image link failed.
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Oblivion
Lurking Grue
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:50 am | |
| Grrr, it shows for me.... and PhotoBucket's down for maintenance. I'll fix it in the morning. -_-
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Vault Dweller
RAAAAAAAGE
Joined : 09 Sep 2007
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Location : Australia
| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:16 am | |
| | Do want. |
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HellScream
Joined : 25 Sep 2007
Posts : 187
Location : London
| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:31 am | |
| not a picture but meh
EDIT: I should just join these two posts together...
EDIT2: aww my post count went down... :(
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Fodder
Age : 25
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:28 pm | |
| Engrish: food for the soul.
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Maulkin
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:17 pm | |
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Vault Dweller
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:58 pm | |
| | WANT EVEN MORE |
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Oblivion
Lurking Grue
Age : 23
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:11 pm | |
| Holy freakin' cow.
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Phoenix
Born of Ashes
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:22 pm | |
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Sunny
TeniPuri fangirl
Joined : 21 Sep 2007
Posts : 1564
Location : Australia
| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:54 pm | |
| | ... I can't help but find this thread slightly insulting. |
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Oblivion
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:07 am | |
| How so?
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Phoenix
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:15 am | |
| It's not so much making fun of the language but how it's translated. I used to take japanese as a language subject so I know how difficult it can be to get an acurate translation seeing as things are said differently.
As for the pictures of weird things even you have to admit Sunny that some of those Japanese game shows and the like are just there to be silly.
It's not a laughing at situation, it's a laughing with.
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Sunny
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Joined : 21 Sep 2007
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| | Subject: Re: Only In Japan Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:38 am | |
| It's more the fact that you're laughing at the translation than anything else. Tis not insulting to me personally, more than I adore Japan, and it's laughing at something I love.
I actually checked with a friend about that river sign and she said that when translated literally it does say "carefully fall into the river", it just doesn't actually mean that. But I don't see why you'd laugh at that. It's like just like translating something from english to japanese and taking the english words, shoving the corresponding japanese words in their places without thinking about proper order. I've seen that done before... it was very strange.
Unfortunately there are some kanji I'm unfamiliar with in the picture Phoenix posted. So I'll have to wait till a friend comes online so I can check with her.
... My gut is also telling me that that river sign isn't Japanese. But *shrugs* |
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