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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
 
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[–] wowbaggerip@lemmy.world 130 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So I made a Japanese learning game on steam and I get hit with negative reviews all the time because it doesn't have enough real Japanese words in it. /facepalm

Edit: Game name is Influent, heavily focused on vocabulary building.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No idea what one the person you replayed to made, but Wagotabi is good. It also updates fairly regularly.

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[–] wowbaggerip@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's called Influent and I first released it in 2014. Added a bunch of other languages since but it all started with Japanese. Shout out to Shashingo as well!

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World

[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't let the trashy stuff fool you. It's actually just a genuinely good comedy. One of my favorites anime.

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[–] Profligate_parasite@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago (11 children)

It's even better when the English word is so riddled with vowel syllabics that Japanese phonemes require that it wraps all the way around and becomes unrecognizable...even when it's "English." My fav: Makkudonarudo - マックドナルド even tho most people just call it "Maku-do" for McDonalds.

Also, gotta watch out... just when you think "Pants" is just "Pantsu" you actually just said "underwear" in Japanese.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

just when you think "Pants" is just "Pantsu" you actually just said "underwear" in Japanese.

To be fair, that’s also the case in English.

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[–] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 15 points 1 month ago

I think "pants" is also underwear in the UK.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

furaidopoteto

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 37 points 1 month ago
[–] Sibshops@feddit.cl 30 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Q: How do you say "farm aura" in spanish?

A: "Farmear aura"

🫤

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually, that's an anglicism but the word for "farm" exists in Spanish: "granjear". So you could say "granjear aura" but doesn't sound cool.

The difference with japanese is that some words don't exist in their language so they adapt the english word to their language by transcribing the pronunciation as closely as they can with their phonems.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

I kept getting asked how i would say brainrot stuff in hungarian but its usually by native speakers of english but once it was by someone from burundi wnd i was like how would you say it in kirundi and it was fun looking at her think about it for a moment 💀. Also i surprised her so much when i knew how their flag looked, where the country is located and what langauges they speak cause i memorized it for every country on earth but she was used to people literally not knowing that burundi existed. Its fun to do it with people from smaller countries.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure but one of those Rs has to be rolled right?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

Best use of this gif ever. Thanks

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago

Like that South Park episode about Xbox vs PlayStation.

“Sony has announced a new Black Friday bundle, called the ‘Burack Friday Bunduru.’”

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Bistek in Spanish for Beefsteak here always makes me laugh.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Learned in French class the word for roast beef is... rosbif.

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[–] Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

There is also cases where they strait up invent English word. Like ベビーカー, pronounced "babika", which is supposed to sound like "baby car", and means "stroller".

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, 桃色 exists, but it's been mostly supplanted.

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[–] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So maybe I'm not so stupid for frequently thinking, every time I start Signal (the app): "Sigunaru."

[–] inari@piefed.zip 8 points 1 month ago

They'd say shigunaru

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ok ok, but how do I say ice cream then?

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

lovu buritannia

[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago
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