My mom has this souvenir from Japan and doesnt remember which side is up... 🤦 ( discuss.tchncs.de )
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practice... ( lemmy.world )
many mistakes were made
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Oyakodon and its sibling dishes ( discuss.tchncs.de )
There’s a dish in Japan called 親子丼(おやこどん) which is a chicken + eggs rice bowl. 親子(おやこ) can be translated as parent and child, which was a bit disturbing the first time I knew about it....
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New romanization just dropped ( media.kbin.social ) Japanese
There's a 4-page manga about the Wikipedia mascot, Wikipe-tan ( lemmy.comfysnug.space )
Wikipe-tan has been the (cutest) unofficial mascot for Wikipedia since 2006. This manga was posted to PIxiv and Wikipedia in 2010 by Kasuga, where he said this:...
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The [bird] told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ( sopuli.xyz )
Not a plea for help since I imagine using the word bank allows the text to be accepted. And no, I’m not trying to get it to fail by using 二 instead of ニ. I’m pretty sure the exercise is bugged.
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Couldn't get this wrong because there was only one option ( lemmy.world )
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A modest proposal ( sh.itjust.works )
Source: twitter.com/ScriptingJapan/…/1673932232036319232
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ナース ( sh.itjust.works )
Source: twitter.com/kudo_70/status/1447140179504939016
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New kanji just dropped ( sh.itjust.works )
Source: twitter.com/tsudashin/status/1413733451488919555
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Shine! ( sh.itjust.works )
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The world stops functioning if there's no coffee ( sh.itjust.works )
This one is a bit tricky, in fact. What it means to say in English is “when the coffee is empty, we won’t refill it”....
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三ドイッチ ( sh.itjust.works )
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"We are free" ( sh.itjust.works )
It wanted to give out a message of freedom, but the mistranslation ended up meaning “we are free of charge”....
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