Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.ksi.ne.jp!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: hoshisato@hotmail.com (Hoshisato) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: English in Japan Date: 10 Jun 2003 08:24:45 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 29 Message-ID: <8940abed.0306100724.692fa96@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.253.247.129 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1055258685 18446 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2003 15:24:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jun 2003 15:24:45 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:882 mika_shiramizu@yahoo.com (Shira) wrote in message news:... > I myself am Japanese.But I often think what would I feel if I were a > foreigner.For example,we see too many English words in daily > life.Watch around you!Surely you easily find a person whose > clothes,bag,or shoes have print of > English.(Actually,first,English.Second,French.)We,Japanese,look them > just as patterns.But all the words have meanings.If I used English as > my mother tongue,I would catch them first.If so,the prints would be > really strange!Most prints have many errors and don't make perfect > sentences.When there is a sentence,it is all the more strange because > the sentence often says really silly thing.Let's take an example."Love > something"is a so common word used in print(especially...on girls' > T-shirt?).The girls in those T-shirt will be ashamed when they wear a > T-shirt with Japanese(Chinese) character,"ai".(You know?A Japanese > word for "love".) > I went to France three years ago.There,I saw people in T-shirts with > Japanese character.They had errors,too.And it was strange that the > words were rare characters in our daily life,like terms of SUMO. > Then, what language is used for print in America,or England,or > Australia,...and so on?None? ??? For strange English used in Japan, have a look here: http://www.engrish.com/ We still see a lot of kanji written on T-shirts here in Paris. Next time I plan on buying some of the t-shirts of http://www.jlist.com/PG/SHRT/ and give it to my unsuspecting friends. See how the Japanese react when they come parading in their bakagaijin t-shirts :-)