Easy Japanese for nerds

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese for Nerds
Via kuro5hinFri Feb 27th, 2004 at 01:57:28 PM EST
"Japanese is the perfect language for nerds. There are just a bunch of standard interfaces to learn, which you string together like so many nested functor objects and voil: fully-formed correct Japanese sentences!" ...more...

[Andocrates]

That was just painful. Please dear god let that guy be from any english speaking country other then America.

[Cubed]

I think bikkle's avatar is hypnotizing me.

*snaps out of it*

Most of the comments on the thread resound with a "BULLSHIT". Even if someone believes it, good luck to them - the competition will not be intense.

[cstaylor]

I can just imagine the dead silence if you were to use "ore" when speaking with your boss at work.

[Caustic Saint]

I can just imagine the dead silence if you were to use "ore" when speaking with your boss at work.

Does "tore" mean anything in Japanese? I ask because there's a Korean fast food chain called "Toreore." "Chicken and Joy" is their tagline.

[cstaylor]

Oh! I can answer that one: that's the impolite command form of "torimasu" (to take).

I don't think there's any relation to the name of the restaurant, but I could be wrong because IANFIJ.

[Andocrates]

well, who knows. But tori is chicken.

[Caustic Saint]

Toreore is a brand of fastfood developed for
the market of young boys and girls.
Main charactoris a fox loved chickens.
It always runs after a lovely tasty chickens.

http://www.toreore.com/

That's the place! Pretty decent food too - and no avian flu (as far as you know).

[kamome]

well, who knows. But tori is chicken.

Nope. Tori means "bird". Niwatori (literally, "yardbird" or "garden bird") means chicken--when it's alive. Chicken prepared as food is called "toriniku" (chicken meat), "chikin" (the Japanized word of the English word, chicken), or yakitori (when you're eating it as chicken-on-a-stick). There also is "wakatori" ("young bird") which is often translated as chicken, but I have heard that it can mean any species of bird. So if you see wakatori on the menu, you shouldn't automatically assume it means "chicken"--you might wind up eating sparrow or some other undesirable meat.