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#engrish

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David B. Himself

So, you got together with a few friends and you've decided to start a J-Pop boy band (no actual musical skills required, only dancing skills,.computers and autotune will take care of the musical aspects). Now your band needs a catchy name.

No worries, I'm here to help you. Take an English noun. Any noun. And add Boy, Man or Mr. to it: Fish Boy, Snow Man, Mr. Children. (these are all actual names)
You're all set.

#Japan #JPop #Engrish

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gabriele renzi

For inexplicable reasons my kid's school has a "manga class", run by a couple of the older students (super cool!)

This has the odd effect that now my daughter uses English words like "character" when talking of the manga they're writing.

I wonder if the "teachers" have been reading some American book, cause it seems odd japanese would use a foreign word for this (tho they use foreign words for a bunch of things,.so who knows).

#manga#engrish
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The Turtle

@Dio9sys many years ago a large Japanese company wanted to market a handheld computer in the US targeted at business.

Think of something like the old Radio Shack Pocket Computer, for work.

Their US office had to strongly discourage them from calling it "The HandJob."

Newspaper headline: STUDENTS GET FIRST HAND JOB EXPERIENCE
#engrish
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