Posted in Japanese, Kanji on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This word is just straight-up cute…
So the characters literally mean “grandchild’s hands”… can you guess the word?
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It means ‘backscratcher’…
Now I’m just not sure if that’s simply really cute or if someone should be reporting it to child welfare :o)
Posted in Japanese, Kanji, tagged rounding, 四捨五入 on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking that if I come across kanji (compounds) I like, I might as well post some instead of secretly emailing them to friends :o)
Well, let’s start with:
It means “round (up)”…
so, why is that interesting? Well, it’s basically an abbreviated 4-step algorithm: the kanji, in order, are:
four, discard, five, enter
There’s just something terribly geeky [...]
Posted in Japan, Japanese, tagged abbreviations, Japanese on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just heard a few confusing English abbreviations on TV and thought I’d post a few to show how confusing pseudo-English/etc. can be :o)
I never properly learned romanji and never will.. but anyway, I’ll do my best to write the Japanese words semi-phonetically…
Let’s start with Pokémon. I always just assumed it was that thing’s [...]
