Tag: Japanese
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Field Note #5 — Lost in Translation (Sketchbook)
Some Linguistics humor to wrap up my day… (Puta means “whore” in Spanish. While in English the /b/ sound is more firmly voiced and held longer, in Japanese it’s a softer, more “staccato” consonantal sound that’s very close to the Spanish bilabial stop /p/ —so the two come out sounding dangerously similar.)
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Archived Blog: yui yaku 1 • “mendokusai”
etymology plug: yui + yaku yui = ゆい me yaku = 訳 (やく) “translation” yui yaku (ゆい訳) is a series in which I attempt to explain obscure words and phrases from modern Japanese culture that do not have equivalents in English. The reign of Schadenfreude as the New Foreign Word on the Block has ended, and…