Random Japanese Signs

[gaijinpunch]

Unless you flop a pat hand......

Then it's especially all about getting fucked on the river.

[Bucky]

Apologies if this one has already been posted:

[dimwit]

Apologies if this one has already been posted:

Haven't seen that one specifically, but they are around. Here is one my favorites:

[Taro Toporific]

Apologies if this one has already been posted:
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"Smorking" signs are a Japanese classic and always worth posting.

Peter Payne of J-List.com came up with this rather complete explanation of "smorking" engrish.
[INDENT]Needing a sixth sense to communicate with people from other countries... and all about "smorking"
peterpayne.net (J-List side blog)
..."I hate it when someone smorks in my face." For whatever reason, the English word "smoke" is often rendered as "smork" in Japan. The issue is how the Japanese perceive certain sounds, especially the "r" phoneme that's not familiar to them. Because Japanese is a syllable-based language in which you can express sounds like ka, ki, ku, ke or ko, but not the consonant "k" by itself, English words like "hello" "goodbye" or "beer, please" must be forced through this rather alien phonetic system, resulting in haroh (the final "h" representing an elongating of the previous vowel), guddobai and biiru puriizu. The very first fast food I ate in Japan was a McDonald's clone called First Kitchen (home of the world famous scrambled egg burger, yech), and I remember some confusion as to whether the company was First Kitchen or Fast Kitchen. Without the full repertoire of English sounds, the Japanese render the latter as fasuto and the former as fahsuto, with the longer middle vowel serving the role of the "r" in "first." This rule gets over-generalized in some words, which is why the long middle sound of the word sumo-ku (smoke) ends up as "smork."...

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{Peter Payne's other Smorking tales}

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flickrhivemind.net "smorking"

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[dimwit]

"Smorking" signs are a Japanese classic and always worth posting.

Peter Payne of J-List.com came up with this rather complete explanation of "smorking" engrish.
[INDENT]Needing a sixth sense to communicate with people from other countries... and all about "smorking"
peterpayne.net (J-List side blog)
..."I hate it when someone smorks in my face." For whatever reason, the English word "smoke" is often rendered as "smork" in Japan. The issue is how the Japanese perceive certain sounds, especially the "r" phoneme that's not familiar to them. Because Japanese is a syllable-based language in which you can express sounds like ka, ki, ku, ke or ko, but not the consonant "k" by itself, English words like "hello" "goodbye" or "beer, please" must be forced through this rather alien phonetic system, resulting in haroh (the final "h" representing an elongating of the previous vowel), guddobai and biiru puriizu. The very first fast food I ate in Japan was a McDonald's clone called First Kitchen (home of the world famous scrambled egg burger, yech), and I remember some confusion as to whether the company was First Kitchen or Fast Kitchen. Without the full repertoire of English sounds, the Japanese render the latter as fasuto and the former as fahsuto, with the longer middle vowel serving the role of the "r" in "first." This rule gets over-generalized in some words, which is why the long middle sound of the word sumo-ku (smoke) ends up as "smork."...

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{Peter Payne's other Smorking tales}

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Thanks Taro. I've often wondered about how that came around.

[Taro Toporific]

[Mulboyne]

[Coligny]

OMG, people used the word negro before it became unpolitically correct.... OMG OMG OMFG...



OMG...

[Yokohammer]

OMG, people used the word negro before it became unpolitically correct.... OMG OMG OMFG...



OMG...

I think it's more about the illustration than the word.

[Christoff]

I think it's more about the illustration than the word.

I am kind of partial to the whole bone thing.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Thank God Japan is not like this anymore...I guess this book must have been published some time before 2009...

[Taro Toporific]

Thank God Japan is not like this anymore...I guess this book must have been published some time before 2009...

Do you mean like these engrish-Japanese dictionary examples?

[Marked Trail]

via

[Typhoon]

I think it's more about the illustration than the word.

What do you have against hipsters?

[Doctor Stop]

via

Don't underestimate those horseflies.

[Tateman]

Shouldn't the sign read "Because there are no horseflies, do not enter"?

[Coligny]

What do you have against hipsters?

don't give them new 'ironic' fashion ideas...

[Christoff]

don't give them new 'ironic' fashion ideas...

Don't tread on my neck beard bro!

[Coligny]

You'ze soooo sekushi...

[matsuki]

It didn't seem more manly than other toilets but then the Japanese image of men isn't exactly manly to begin with...

[Greji]

You'ze soooo sekushi...

Man, you gotta do something about that cat hair.....

[matsuki]

Man, you gotta do something about that cat hair.....

Cat hair? He's French, just wait til he grows his winter coat!

[Coligny]

Cat hair? He's French, just wait til he grows his winter coat!

no, you'ze mistaken... that would be the Italians...



(Wait...


mah father is hafu italian/french...


awww dear...


fook youz guyz...

)

[matsuki]

no, you'ze mistaken... that would be the Italians...



(Wait...


mah father is hafu italian/french...


awww dear...


fook youz guyz...

)

I speak from experience...unfortunately me mom's side is half French Canadian. I have like a redneck t-shirt tan of hair on my arms...the only upside is all the J-girls seem to love it.

[Taro Toporific]

restofthestory

[dimwit]

[sublight]

Honest question to the other FGs:

I made this tonight. Is this actually funny, or am I just pleased with myself because I'm drunk?

I'm thinking about making into a badge and wearing it on my bag in the subway.

Looking at it posted here, it needs to be bigger, at the very least.

[Coligny]

The 90' called... they want their cliparts back...

and...

I dun't read chinese...

[IparryU]

Honest question to the other FGs:

I made this tonight. Is this actually funny, or am I just pleased with myself because I'm drunk?

I'm thinking about making into a badge and wearing it on my bag in the subway.

Looking at it posted here, it needs to be bigger, at the very least.

I say do it. then they cant say no when you are sleeping in the silver seats

[dimwit]

Apropro to nothing...