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Made in Japan English website

Postby untmdsprt » August 22nd, 2010 7:26 am

For those of you who keep getting a WTF? look when you come across a new katakana word, especially those of us in Japan, here's a website dedicated to explain Japanese English.

http://www.waseieigo.com/index.html


The site is all in Japanese though, but you could possibly use Google translator. I believe the site will also give you the country of origin that the word came from. :D

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Postby Jessi » August 23rd, 2010 12:32 am

Great site! Thanks for sharing :D I found myself picking up a lot just by browsing through the entries :mrgreen:
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Postby untmdsprt » August 23rd, 2010 8:32 am

I was out with a Japanese friend and asked her "生ビールジョッキは何ですか。" She explained it was the huge glass of beer. I asked her where ジョッキ came from. She had assumed it was English, but looked confused when I said that English has either mug, or stein. Tankard is another English word.

コーク could be mistaken for a male part, but it's actually a cook. :shock:

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