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most quoted re "japanese": Jonathan North Washington (3), Joyce (2), Derek Gulas (2), oberon (1), Michael Forest Meservy (1)

other categories found with "japanese": language (4), writing (2), badness (2), food (2), provincialism (2)


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[link] heard: 12 July 2007
[edit] added: 12 July 2007

Derek: "I think we should write in runes, and the British should write in Roman."

Jonathan: "What about the Australians?"

Derek: "… They can write in kanji."

language, writing, badness, bad-ideas, japanese, patriotism, provincialism
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[link] heard: 30 June 2007
[edit] added: 30 June 2007

(20:03:17) [Sarah]: Albert keeps telling me to not drink that much in Poland. I was like,"Poland = VODKA!"

(20:03:31) [me]: yeah

(20:03:36) [me]: but be careful when you do drink

(20:04:11) [me]: people try to take advantage of drunk people

(20:04:30) [Sarah]: Oh they don't want to fuck with me. The Mexicans have tried that.

(20:32:24) [Sarah]: I've started to speak to the Mexicans in Polish and Japanese so they'll leave me alone.

(20:35:27) [Sarah]: Well I have a sign on my forehead that says "EASY PIECE OF ASS! VEN AQUI!"

(20:40:30) [Sarah]: The last time I was in Walmart with a friend, I had a Mexican following me around and he was speaking in English and wouldn't leave me alone so I just started going,"Nie rozumiem. Nihongo ga rozumiesz?"

(20:43:49) [Sarah]: I was like,"What do you want?" "I just want to talk." "Mexicans NEVER want to just talk to me."

spanish, badness, sex, japanese, provincialism, alcohol
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[link] heard: 23 April 2007
[edit] added: 23 April 2007

Derek: "No, Joyce, what you should be saying is ‘[in effeminite voice] atashi.’"

Meghan: "Is that the female you?"

Derek: "No, that's the Hello Kitty me."

Derek, Meghan, and Joyce in one big misunderstanding
japanese, language, misunderstandings, sexuality
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[link] heard: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007

Jonathan: "My favourite translation tool on the internet is to look something up on wikipedia in the source language, and then click the link to the article in the destination language."

Joyce: "Oh yeah, I only ever did that to look up how Star Trek was written in katakana."

star-trek, geekiness, sadness, language, tv, mistranslations, technology, computers, writing, japanese
[comment] [rate] 3/5


[link] heard: 2 May 2006
[edit] added: 2 May 2006

"In Japan, I met people who had made rice makers their personal bitch: they made bread, cookies, brownies, and baked potatoes in a rice maker."

food, japanese
[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 31 March 2006
[edit] added: 31 March 2006

"We'll make you a deal—if there's a lunar eclipse, we'll give you something to eat; if there's not, we eat you."

Boutros Boutros Ghali on Rabbi Akiva
physics, food, fire, ddr, hypocrisy, japanese, conspiracies
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 30 June 2003
[edit] added: 30 June 2003

(18:27:51) Jade Solitude: And, by some unholy misfourtunte, I somehow got Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" in the mix.

(18:28:17) Jade Solitude: (I don't know why she was on the Japan Gold Disc Awards compilation, but there she was, amidst all the Japanese artists...)

music, misfortune, japanese
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[link] heard: unknown
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"E is like F, but the Japanese can't spell."

language, ddr, japanese
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