Like that South Park episode about Xbox vs PlayStation.
“Sony has announced a new Black Friday bundle, called the ‘Burack Friday Bunduru.’”
It’s even better when the English word is so riddled with vowel syllabics that Japanese phonemes require that it wraps all the way around and becomes unrecognizable…even when it’s “English.” My fav: Makkudonarudo - マックドナルド even tho most people just call it “Maku-do” for McDonalds.
Also, gotta watch out… just when you think “Pants” is just “Pantsu” you actually just said “underwear” in Japanese.
furaidopoteto
There is also cases where they strait up invent English word. Like ベビーカー, pronounced “babika”, which is supposed to sound like “baby car”, and means “stroller”.
I mean, 桃色 exists, but it’s been mostly supplanted.
So I made a Japanese learning game on steam and I get hit with negative reviews all the time because it doesn’t have enough real Japanese words in it. /facepalm
Link?
No idea what one the person you replayed to made, but Wagotabi is good. It also updates fairly regularly.
Sauce?
KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World
Merci! 😸
Ok ok, but how do I say ice cream then?
Iceu creamu?
Technically the romaji would be aisu kuriimu but yeah
Somehow I just knew these words would get the Japanizu treatment
It must be because they love and respect British culture so much, right? 😁 (pic related: Japan when they find out about britain)
My absolute favourite is
フライドポテト furaido poteto
French friesMy favorite in my one semester of college Japanese was:
Hotto chokareto (hot chocolate)
ホットチョコレート
It’s like the French with Le Weekend
Hotto!
When I was a kid, before you could translate stuff on the internet and we were waiting months for the new batch of translated Dragonball Z episodes to hit Toonami (I swear, if I come home from school today and it’s goddamn Radditz again, I’m gonna Destructo Disc my mom’s Camry), I got like a tiny little I guess travel book for translating English to Japanese thinking that maybe I’d start learning.
The only word I remember is “hamburger” because the book showed the Japanese pronunciation as “haam baah gaah” lol
i was there with you, waiting for years for some legendary yellow hair
Honestly, I’m very thankful to have grown up with Dragon Ball Z with the Bruce Falconer soundtrack. Trying to go back to it now and listen to it with original Japanese music… It’s kind of awful for me lol Is that terrible to say?
That’s pretty close, though!
The thing is, the Japanese language has very few sounds compared to most languages, so their loan words have to be forced into the system of sounds they have.
For «hamburger» specifically, they don’t have any of the vowel sounds in the English word. They also lack the rhotic «r» sound, or really any «r» sound at all. Their «a» sound is an open sound as in «say aah», so they just ended up using a long version of it to approximate the «ur» and «er» sounds (which are really similar in American English!).
My favorite one is “Urubarin”, for Wolverine! Pretty close, yet so far.
“tophat” is toppu hatto but “top hat” is shiruku hatto
Q: How do you say “farm aura” in spanish?
A: “Farmear aura”
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Faramir, you say?
Actually, that’s an anglicism but the word for “farm” exists in Spanish: “granjear”. So you could say “granjear aura” but doesn’t sound cool.
The difference with japanese is that some words don’t exist in their language so they adapt the english word to their language by transcribing the pronunciation as closely as they can with their phonems.
Farmear is definately a loan word, like pinku. It doesn’t have the same meaning as granjear or cultivar, either.
Yeah it’s just an English word verb-ified Spanish style
I kept getting asked how i would say brainrot stuff in hungarian but its usually by native speakers of english but once it was by someone from burundi wnd i was like how would you say it in kirundi and it was fun looking at her think about it for a moment 💀. Also i surprised her so much when i knew how their flag looked, where the country is located and what langauges they speak cause i memorized it for every country on earth but she was used to people literally not knowing that burundi existed. Its fun to do it with people from smaller countries.
Sure but one of those Rs has to be rolled right?
Best use of this gif ever. Thanks
“Hey”
lovu buritannia
