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“No Naked Flames”
Guess clothed flames are OK…
[sign seen on Ninoshima ferry]
Alien of a different kind
On my cell phone I subscribe to a service called TangoTown. Its a great service that provides online dictionaries, phrase books and one of the best translators I’ve used (nice thing is it gives a reverse translation so if the meaning is unmangled after English->Japanese->English you know its OK and can try fixing it if it isn’t). Anyways, another of its services emails out messages to help you study vocabulary, kanji, phrases & slang. I was ROFLing at the slang-of-the-day for yesterday:
?????? - oppaiseijin - breast fetish - (literally) Alien from the planet “Tits”
Please tell me this is for keeping two male chickens in…
OK, just about anyone who spends any time in Japan starts to make a collection of fractured or just plain weird English that they see around them. In fact there is an entire site devoted to what is lovingly known as “Engrish”. Figure I should start sharing some of my finds as well.
This one was on a water pot at the Mt. Fuji Yoshida-guchi 5th station restaurant. Really made me and everyone else think twice about using it… ^_^;;
