Man I would never get a tattoo in a language I didn't understand, especially if you're not at a reputable tattoo artists'. How many people have got 'I am a wanker' branded on their body for all to see because of that?
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Man I would never get a tattoo in a language I didn't understand, especially if you're not at a reputable tattoo artists'. How many people have got 'I am a wanker' branded on their body for all to see because of that?
I imagine there's quite a few Chinese-charactered tramp stamps that say "Insert Here" or the equivalent.
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I would have loved to watch him try to explain to his Japanese wife how Chinese and Japanese are "all the same".
He assumed that the characters "matched" phonetically. Kind of like how Spanish and English use the same letters.
As a side note, I remember when I was first learning Kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese). I decided to take a sheet of paper, and copy all the Japanese names from the ending credits of my anime and match them to the names in the subs.
I explicitly remember saying. "I can do this, it's not like there are thousands of these letters!"
Wow, not only was I wrong, I was also trying to match the letters to the English alphabet. I had on my sheet of paper the following.
A=
a=
B=
b=
C=
c=
This was before I learned that:
1) Japanese take specific consonant-vowel pairs
2) The vowels are A, I, U, E, O, and N (?!)
3) The names were backwards, with the last name first, and was put the "right way" in the subs.
4) There are, in fact 1,945 characters, with two phonetic alphabets, each with 50 letters.
5) Each character has at least two readings, sometimes more.
6) Names didn't follow those rules and sometimes used non-traditional characters and readings.
I wonder how on earth I even picked up the language. I was an obsessed little nerd.
You're just crushing any delusions I might have of someday learning Japanese here
There are actually just a touch over 5000 (Toyo Kanji), but in 1965, Japan had a language reform and cut it down to 1,945 that you must know to be literate (Joyo Kanji). They also tossed a few redundant phonetic letters to. (Yi and Ye, but strangely is still used in the Japanese Beer "Yebisu". It's that name rule again.) You can "get by" with about 800. It doesn't really matter because as you are learning Japanese the characters get attached to your vocabulary anyway. The hard part was the grammar, where you have to deal with verbs at the end of sentences and the lack of a future tense or plurals.
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You're just crushing any delusions I might have of someday learning Japanese here
It's an asshole. Chinese is worse, in my opinion.
As much as they're peddled, the Rosetta Stone software is actually really fucking good if you want to learn a foreign language.
Or for maintaing a slipping hold on what you learned in college :P
I've found learning languages in college and high school to be completely pointless. Every teacher I've gotten insists the best way to learn is to speak the language completely in the class. Like teaching a bunch of kindergarten kids how to talk.
Except they'd start using phrases like "What's this mean?" without previously having told us what the phrase meant. It was ridiculously hard for my class to pick up Spanish because the introductory teacher taught like this.
I hated her.
Someone put a stink bomb in her desk though. It made it worth it. I am still not sure how I passed that for 5 years(!) in high school. I can't speak it anymore, except for a few funny phrases like "Do you like ass-sex?" or stuff like that, which is probably very useful when traveling abroad.
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You're just crushing any delusions I might have of someday learning Japanese here
It's an asshole. Chinese is worse, in my opinion.
As much as they're peddled, the Rosetta Stone software is actually really fucking good if you want to learn a foreign language.
Or for maintaing a slipping hold on what you learned in college :P
I've found learning languages in college and high school to be completely pointless. Every teacher I've gotten insists the best way to learn is to speak the language completely in the class. Like teaching a bunch of kindergarten kids how to talk.
Except they'd start using phrases like "What's this mean?" without previously having told us what the phrase meant. It was ridiculously hard for my class to pick up Spanish because the introductory teacher taught like this.
I hated her.
Someone put a stink bomb in her desk though. It made it worth it. I am still not sure how I passed that for 5 years(!) in high school. I can't speak it anymore, except for a few funny phrases like "Do you like ass-sex?" or stuff like that, which is probably very useful when traveling abroad.
Bowen is ultimately prepared in case he needs a homosexual encounter with a Spanish man.
You're just crushing any delusions I might have of someday learning Japanese here
It's an asshole. Chinese is worse, in my opinion.
As much as they're peddled, the Rosetta Stone software is actually really fucking good if you want to learn a foreign language.
Or for maintaing a slipping hold on what you learned in college :P
I've found learning languages in college and high school to be completely pointless. Every teacher I've gotten insists the best way to learn is to speak the language completely in the class. Like teaching a bunch of kindergarten kids how to talk.
Except they'd start using phrases like "What's this mean?" without previously having told us what the phrase meant. It was ridiculously hard for my class to pick up Spanish because the introductory teacher taught like this.
I hated her.
Someone put a stink bomb in her desk though. It made it worth it. I am still not sure how I passed that for 5 years(!) in high school. I can't speak it anymore, except for a few funny phrases like "Do you like ass-sex?" or stuff like that, which is probably very useful when traveling abroad.
Bowen is ultimately prepared in case he needs a homosexual encounter with a Spanish man.
As much as they're peddled, the Rosetta Stone software is actually really fucking good if you want to learn a foreign language.
More and more down OffTopic Road, but is this "speaking from experience?"
I've heard mixed things, some people say that it's utter shit and others that it's great.
Maybe it depends on the language in question that you're trying to learn.
I've used them and it's far easier to pick up unless you're paying someone who's fluent in both to teach you. Rosetta gets pretty close to that, treats you like you have no idea what the fuck you're doing, and doesn't try to trick you with tricky things off the bat.
Someone who's a master of languages will likely find Rosetta to be mind numbingly boring and hideous though.
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Man I would never get a tattoo in a language I didn't understand, especially if you're not at a reputable tattoo artists'. How many people have got 'I am a wanker' branded on their body for all to see because of that?
I imagine there's quite a few Chinese-charactered tramp stamps that say "Insert Here" or the equivalent.
My wife had a good laugh when we went to Six Flags a few years ago. There were temporary tatoo places and some of them had Chinese characters that they said meant sexy.
We asked her what they really meant, and she said sexy kind of works, but there is no English translation because it was very idiomatic. The closest she could give was something like "The last 27 generations of your mothers were whores."
Man I would never get a tattoo in a language I didn't understand, especially if you're not at a reputable tattoo artists'. How many people have got 'I am a wanker' branded on their body for all to see because of that?
I imagine there's quite a few Chinese-charactered tramp stamps that say "Insert Here" or the equivalent.
My wife had a good laugh when we went to Six Flags a few years ago. There were temporary tatoo places and some of them had Chinese characters that they said meant sexy.
We asked her what they really meant, and she said sexy kind of works, but there is no English translation because it was very idiomatic. The closest she could give was something like "The last 27 generations of your mothers were whores."
Goddamnit if that's not sexy I don't know what is.
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So things start to pick up for the end of the day when all the IT guys shitdown there machines and we need to shut the kids machine first and tend to our own machines.
I don't know if anyone else pointed that out, but it confused me briefly. Nice typo!
This shirt is often advertised as saying "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend", which is technically correct, but it's not exactly what it says... I will elaborate.
The shirt says this
日本人 = Japanese person
彼女 = girl (girlfriend)
募集 = recruit
中 = In the middle of...
The term "募集中", means "Now recruiting", not "Looking for". Many times when a Japanese store is looking for hire someone, they will put "募集中" in the window. It can also mean "Help wanted" or "Now hiring" (You can see the context of the word here.
So basically, wearing this shirt it telling Japanese girls that you are looking to hire them as your girlfriend, or that you are accepting applications for such. It's really not a shirt you should be wearing to impress anyone, and you are actually looking like an ass.
I one saw an American girl here in Wisconsin with a shirt that said "一夜、一〇〇〇〇円" (One night, 10,000 yen). I nearly doubled over laughing.
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So basically, wearing this shirt it telling Japanese girls that you are looking to hire them as your girlfriend, or that you are accepting applications for such. It's really not a shirt you should be wearing to impress anyone, and you are actually looking like an ass.
Honestly? Even if it said exactly what it claims it says it's pretty goddamn sad.
I one saw an American girl here in Wisconsin with a shirt that said "一夜、一〇〇〇〇円" (One night, 10,000 yen). I nearly doubled over laughing.
So basically, wearing this shirt it telling Japanese girls that you are looking to hire them as your girlfriend, or that you are accepting applications for such. It's really not a shirt you should be wearing to impress anyone, and you are actually looking like an ass.
Honestly? Even if it said exactly what it claims it says it's pretty goddamn sad.
I one saw an American girl here in Wisconsin with a shirt that said "一夜、一〇〇〇〇円" (One night, 10,000 yen). I nearly doubled over laughing.
Awesome.
I kinda hope she knew what that said. What would someone think that says?
My mom used to do this dog breeding thing. She makes a phone call to the vet several years ago. She got an answering machine and left a message talking about how she had a bitch in heat, needed a semen sample from the stud, wondering about frozen/chilled semen. (among other things.)
She gets a call back a few hours later from a very confused woman who said," Hi. You called about something you wanted to have done... to one of your dogs? I just wanted to let you know that you got the wrong number."
My mom used to do this dog breeding thing. She makes a phone call to the vet several years ago. She got an answering machine and left a message talking about how she had a bitch in heat, needed a semen sample from the stud, wondering about frozen/chilled semen. (among other things.)
She gets a call back a few hours later from a very confused woman who said," Hi. You called about something you wanted to have done... to one of your dogs? I just wanted to let you know that you got the wrong number."
I imagined that part being read in this half-scared tone of voice. To win a million internets your mom should have immediately replied, "Ooh... yes, dogs. Totally dogs. Right."
So basically, wearing this shirt it telling Japanese girls that you are looking to hire them as your girlfriend, or that you are accepting applications for such. It's really not a shirt you should be wearing to impress anyone, and you are actually looking like an ass.
Honestly? Even if it said exactly what it claims it says it's pretty goddamn sad.
I own one of those shirts. Haven't worn it since I walked past an elderly Japanese gentleman who read it and immediately shat himself laughing.
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I thought about getting one of those Seme: It's lonely at the top, or Uke: root for the underdog shirts, but then I came to my goddamn senses.
Edit: for clarification, Seme and Uke are the terms in gay anime for the guy on top and the guy on bottom, respectively. Talk about something that would send the elderly japanese man walking by into fits.
I thought about getting one of those Seme: It's lonely at the top, or Uke: root for the underdog shirts, but then I came to my goddamn senses.
Edit: for clarification, Seme and Uke are the terms in gay anime for the guy on top and the guy on bottom, respectively. Talk about something that would send the elderly japanese man walking by into fits.
"uke" actually means receiver, and "seme" being "attacker" or something like that (I speak Japanese fluently but I have a hard time translating it)
yeah, "receiver."
:winky:
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I thought about getting one of those Seme: It's lonely at the top, or Uke: root for the underdog shirts, but then I came to my goddamn senses.
Edit: for clarification, Seme and Uke are the terms in gay anime for the guy on top and the guy on bottom, respectively. Talk about something that would send the elderly japanese man walking by into fits.
Why the fuck would you ever consider those shirts
why would you ever....
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I was in high school and I thought they were hilarious. Also, that no one would ever understand them, so total in-joke with the friends, right?
As I said, and then I came to my goddamn senses.
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That site is fantastic. I've always wanted to know what those asian character tattoos mean, because I don't trust the tattoo parlors or dumbass people who get them to actually know, and now I can. Thanks man.
The girl I'm dating has a tattoo in Chinese/Japanese (I forget which) that she says reads something like "live in the moment"... she says it reminds her not to overthink things...
The girl I'm dating has a tattoo in Chinese/Japanese (I forget which) that she says reads something like "live in the moment"... she says it reminds her not to overthink things...
I wonder now what it actually says.
"Live with a penis in your ass that's on fire."
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I imagine there's quite a few Chinese-charactered tramp stamps that say "Insert Here" or the equivalent.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
He assumed that the characters "matched" phonetically. Kind of like how Spanish and English use the same letters.
As a side note, I remember when I was first learning Kanji (Chinese characters in Japanese). I decided to take a sheet of paper, and copy all the Japanese names from the ending credits of my anime and match them to the names in the subs.
I explicitly remember saying. "I can do this, it's not like there are thousands of these letters!"
Wow, not only was I wrong, I was also trying to match the letters to the English alphabet. I had on my sheet of paper the following.
A=
a=
B=
b=
C=
c=
This was before I learned that:
1) Japanese take specific consonant-vowel pairs
2) The vowels are A, I, U, E, O, and N (?!)
3) The names were backwards, with the last name first, and was put the "right way" in the subs.
4) There are, in fact 1,945 characters, with two phonetic alphabets, each with 50 letters.
5) Each character has at least two readings, sometimes more.
6) Names didn't follow those rules and sometimes used non-traditional characters and readings.
I wonder how on earth I even picked up the language. I was an obsessed little nerd.
You're just crushing any delusions I might have of someday learning Japanese here
It's an asshole. Chinese is worse, in my opinion.
As much as they're peddled, the Rosetta Stone software is actually really fucking good if you want to learn a foreign language.
There are actually just a touch over 5000 (Toyo Kanji), but in 1965, Japan had a language reform and cut it down to 1,945 that you must know to be literate (Joyo Kanji). They also tossed a few redundant phonetic letters to. (Yi and Ye, but strangely is still used in the Japanese Beer "Yebisu". It's that name rule again.) You can "get by" with about 800. It doesn't really matter because as you are learning Japanese the characters get attached to your vocabulary anyway. The hard part was the grammar, where you have to deal with verbs at the end of sentences and the lack of a future tense or plurals.
Or for maintaing a slipping hold on what you learned in college :P
I've found learning languages in college and high school to be completely pointless. Every teacher I've gotten insists the best way to learn is to speak the language completely in the class. Like teaching a bunch of kindergarten kids how to talk.
Except they'd start using phrases like "What's this mean?" without previously having told us what the phrase meant. It was ridiculously hard for my class to pick up Spanish because the introductory teacher taught like this.
I hated her.
Someone put a stink bomb in her desk though. It made it worth it. I am still not sure how I passed that for 5 years(!) in high school. I can't speak it anymore, except for a few funny phrases like "Do you like ass-sex?" or stuff like that, which is probably very useful when traveling abroad.
Bowen is ultimately prepared in case he needs a homosexual encounter with a Spanish man.
Olé
More and more down OffTopic Road, but is this "speaking from experience?"
I've heard mixed things, some people say that it's utter shit and others that it's great.
Maybe it depends on the language in question that you're trying to learn.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
I've used them and it's far easier to pick up unless you're paying someone who's fluent in both to teach you. Rosetta gets pretty close to that, treats you like you have no idea what the fuck you're doing, and doesn't try to trick you with tricky things off the bat.
Someone who's a master of languages will likely find Rosetta to be mind numbingly boring and hideous though.
We asked her what they really meant, and she said sexy kind of works, but there is no English translation because it was very idiomatic. The closest she could give was something like "The last 27 generations of your mothers were whores."
Goddamnit if that's not sexy I don't know what is.
I don't know if anyone else pointed that out, but it confused me briefly. Nice typo!
This shirt is often advertised as saying "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend", which is technically correct, but it's not exactly what it says... I will elaborate.
The shirt says this
日本人 = Japanese person
彼女 = girl (girlfriend)
募集 = recruit
中 = In the middle of...
The term "募集中", means "Now recruiting", not "Looking for". Many times when a Japanese store is looking for hire someone, they will put "募集中" in the window. It can also mean "Help wanted" or "Now hiring" (You can see the context of the word here.
So basically, wearing this shirt it telling Japanese girls that you are looking to hire them as your girlfriend, or that you are accepting applications for such. It's really not a shirt you should be wearing to impress anyone, and you are actually looking like an ass.
I one saw an American girl here in Wisconsin with a shirt that said "一夜、一〇〇〇〇円" (One night, 10,000 yen). I nearly doubled over laughing.
Honestly? Even if it said exactly what it claims it says it's pretty goddamn sad.
Awesome.
You should have pulled out $115 USD, walked up to her, and said "You've got a deal."
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I kinda hope she knew what that said. What would someone think that says?
For some girl from Wisconsin? Talk about overpriced.
You've never been to a Wisconsin cattle farm then.
HEYYYOOOOO
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She gets a call back a few hours later from a very confused woman who said," Hi. You called about something you wanted to have done... to one of your dogs? I just wanted to let you know that you got the wrong number."
I imagined that part being read in this half-scared tone of voice. To win a million internets your mom should have immediately replied, "Ooh... yes, dogs. Totally dogs. Right."
STEAM
I own one of those shirts. Haven't worn it since I walked past an elderly Japanese gentleman who read it and immediately shat himself laughing.
Edit: for clarification, Seme and Uke are the terms in gay anime for the guy on top and the guy on bottom, respectively. Talk about something that would send the elderly japanese man walking by into fits.
"uke" actually means receiver, and "seme" being "attacker" or something like that (I speak Japanese fluently but I have a hard time translating it)
yeah, "receiver."
:winky:
Why the fuck would you ever consider those shirts
why would you ever....
As I said, and then I came to my goddamn senses.
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I wonder now what it actually says.
"Live with a penis in your ass that's on fire."
he wears it at school where we have japanese exchange students
i love this moment so much
i have phone calls to make
I don't see the big deal.
You look like an asshole with either translation.