My intro

[Brian]

Originally Posted by nikuman

There's a set of verbs for animate/inanimate objects (not really that simple), so that's probably where the dorky gaijin (is there any other kind?) got it from.

other fun:
when eating:

kuimasu
or kuimasho, this drove the locals crazy if you had one in your apt.

o itadku ni natte orimasu (i think.... i honorificaly, humbly partake)

or serve food, tell your comp: itadake

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Brian

other fun:
when eating:

kuimasu
or kuimasho, this drove the locals crazy if you had one in your apt.

o itadku ni natte orimasu (i think.... i honorificaly, humbly partake)

or serve food, tell your comp: itadake

LOL. You're killing me.

[Brian]

i think even more honorrific is:

o itadku ni natte oraremasu.

slang in kyushuu was to end things with batten ga.

so:
itaku batten ga.

domo arrigato gozaimasu batten ga.

boku wa gozaru

[cougjunkie]

Originally Posted by Brian

i think even more honorrific is:

o itadku ni natte oraremasu.

slang in kyushuu was to end things with batten ga.

so:
itaku batten ga.

domo arrigato gozaimasu batten ga.

boku wa gozaru

Domo Arrigato Roboto is all the japanese i know.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by cougjunkie

Domo Arrigato Roboto is all the japanese i know.

there's all kinds of japanese you just didn't think you knew:

Nice shooting, although pronounced naissu shootingu
Eat Flan
Please play the piano.

[Brian]

Originally Posted by nikuman

There's a set of verbs for animate/inanimate objects (not really that simple), so that's probably where the dorky gaijin (is there any other kind?) got it from.

or it could have an MTC teacher who saw your little essay above, and just said, oh screw it. eats and poos: wa doesn't eat or poo: ga

[nikuman]

Originally Posted by Brian

or it could have an MTC teacher who saw your little essay above, and just said, oh screw it. eats and poos: wa doesn't eat or poo: ga

LOL.

MTC Japanese is the most grammatically incorrect form around. That's what happens when you have gaijin who learned from gaijin teaching gaijin. And that's to say nothing of the natives who can't explain why they say what they say.

When I taught there, I was an active iconoclast.

[DrumNFeather]

From King of the Hill:

"Are you Chinease or Japanease?"

"I'm Laotion"

"The Ocean?"

"No you idiot, I'm from Laos, a small country in Asia"

"Right...so are you Chinease or Japanease?"

[jay santos]

I love Japlish. I cook a lot of Asian food which my wife usually barely tolerates. I was making something that wasn't going well, and she asked what is was called. I said "totaru kurappu" with Japanese pronounciation and up and down inflection. It took her a while but she laughed.

[BigFatMeanie]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

That's very good, Arch.

Foreigners (gaijins) are quite rare in Japan. When kids see missionaries they like to yell out something in English just to try it out. And they usually yell out the first thing they learn in their english class. Which is typically:

"This is a pencil."

or

"This is a pen."

or

"This is a red pen."

So everywhere you go, you hear kids shouting "This is a red pen! This is a red pen!". It's strange, but quite funny at the same time.

Another common thing you hear is "Buta kao!" which is literally "Pig face!" (referring to our big noses and round eyes).

In the Philippines they yell "Hey Joe, give me chocolate" which I'm pretty sure is a holdover from the WWII GIs. The full "Hey Joe, give me chocolate" is often shortened to just "Hey Joe" which you hear about 100 times a day. I never minded "Hey Joe" but I liked having a little fun with it so I would often respond "Hey Pedro". You could also tell who the smarter kids were because the ones that got the joke would laugh and the ones that didn't would sit there with a dumb look on their face thinking "My name isn't Pedro" or, better yet, "How did he know my name is Pedro?"