JAPAN IS A NICE PLACE TO TALK

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Peet's Yummy Honey Morning Omelette Pan: It was a sunny fresh morning. Peet woke up and smell yummy sweat honey from kitchen. He jumped over bed and went into kitchen. "Woh! Boy! Bunches of pancakes! Mommy, put prenty of honey onto pancakes. OK? I love your hand-made pancakes and yourself, Mom!"

SEEE WHAT I MEAN?

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/2260/engrish.html

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since I'm playing at the Milk Club in Tokyo on March 15th, the promoter sent me information about the event to put on my website news page. I pasted it faithfully, despite being totally baffled.

The show is billed as a "NEW WAVE GURENTAI NISIE", whatever that means (sounds nisie, anyway). There will also be an "80s NW T-shirts & Goods Boast Convention" going on. I'm guessing what this means is that you bring any 80s T shirts or goods you have at home, and boast about them, perhaps in an Engrish rap or some sort of cargo cult show-and-tell.

It sounds great! I will be boasting about my old Plefab Splout T shirt.

― Momus, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Japanese delight in mixing up r and l reminds me of the 1600's English delight in mixing up f and s.

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or is it f and l?

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

/f/ and /s/ is right.

― alix, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now, I have to find out why they were represented like that. Oh, Orthography, up yours.

― alix, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Some people say little sounds should be seen and not heard, but I say..."

― Tim, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"And I don't care of them, so I am just a mops, YEAH!"

― Trevor, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, the Olde Englishe Mixinge Ye It Uppe with the 'f's and the 's's. when i was a Steeyoudent i had a postcard on my wall of a woodcut illustrating "Hamlet" which had the caption "Ophelia Diftracted" which RickyT consistently read as "Ophelia Diffracted". funnily enough for double 's's they seem to use one f and one s e.g. Elizabethan Jess would be "Jefs".

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kuryosser and kuryosser. I can't find anything on it, not easily. And now I must know. I seem to remember something about it being taught at me last year. It's not to do with voicing, I think. Possibly to do with certain sounds that we diferentiate today, such as /f/ and /s/ not being differentiated then. But, I don't see how that would work. They're only related orthographically. Phonetically they're quite different. Hmm. The search continues.

― alix, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the large f for ss is akin to the German ß. We phased ours out, they didn't. So there.

― suzy, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the f-like character you speak of is not an f character at all. it has no cross bar. it is a different letter.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I did e and made out with the cutest Japanese boy over the weekend... just thought I'd share that here.

― Sean, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Proof that a letter of the alphabet can have power!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about french letters? One would hope they're strong.

― Momus, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

REVIVE! why the fuck not?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 11 October 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

www.engrish.com

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, http://www.engrish.com

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

How would you say,

Geisha
Kimono
Harakiri
Kamikaze

The vast majority of Westerners pronounce these words incorrectly.

Just saying...

But I can't understand why so many English-language menus in Japan have spelling mistakes. Is it so hard to use a dictionary?

― supercub, Monday, 11 October 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sixteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElLNTJ8n8Tw

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 00:43 (four years ago)

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