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what is "Take This Job and Shove It" in japanese? - 02-18-2011, 04:19 PM

what is "Take This Job and Shove It" in japanese?
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what is "Take This Job and Shove It" in japanese?
1. The phrase almost assuredly does not exist in Japanese—it's an idiomatic English phrase.

2. You might find it more beneficial to confine your questions about random English idiomatic phrases to a single "Osakaboi questions" thread? Many of the others here who ask random, specific questions have done the same (myself included).

3. Out of curiosity, why do you keep asking for random English idiomatic phrases to be translated into English? I don't seem to recall you ever really saying/asking anything else!

Looking at your last few posts, they are all this:
1. what is "take this job and shove it"
2. what is "keep up the good work"
3. what is "inside job"
4. what is "freeloader"
5. what is "how dare you" and "i dare you to do that"
6. what is "it happens more often than you think"
7. what is "there's no honor in honor system"
8. what is "you can't have it both ways; something's got to give"
9. what is "why not"
10. what is どないやねん
11. what is "just wonder" or "just curious"

Seriously, it's practically all you do. It would make it easier to read and answer your questions and the rest of the forum if you would make one "Osakaboi" thread and post them there.
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02-18-2011, 08:32 PM

Why don't you go look at a Japanese website or read a Japanese book? That's where you will see these phrases (and tons of them too). Not here.
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02-18-2011, 08:37 PM

referring to honyaku-archive.org would probably be your best bet when asking this type of question: it's a mailing list for professional translators, and it has a full-text search of the archives

Someone is bound to have translated this phrase at one point (but it's not going to be the same).

And because I'm nice, I searched for you and found this:
こんな仕事、くそくらえってんだぁ!
Literally, "This job, eat shit!"

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1. The phrase almost assuredly does not exist in Japanese—it's an idiomatic English phrase.

2. You might find it more beneficial to confine your questions about random English idiomatic phrases to a single "Osakaboi questions" thread? Many of the others here who ask random, specific questions have done the same (myself included).

3. Out of curiosity, why do you keep asking for random English idiomatic phrases to be translated into English? I don't seem to recall you ever really saying/asking anything else!

Looking at your last few posts, they are all this:
1. what is "take this job and shove it"
2. what is "keep up the good work"
3. what is "inside job"
4. what is "freeloader"
5. what is "how dare you" and "i dare you to do that"
6. what is "it happens more often than you think"
7. what is "there's no honor in honor system"
8. what is "you can't have it both ways; something's got to give"
9. what is "why not"
10. what is どないやねん
11. what is "just wonder" or "just curious"

Seriously, it's practically all you do. It would make it easier to read and answer your questions and the rest of the forum if you would make one "Osakaboi" thread and post them there.
Wow, Osakaboi.. if you are trying to learn Japanese.. you are doing it in the most inefficient way possible. Japanese is not English.. so the first thing you need to do is stop looking for the Japanese equivalent of every English phrase or idiom you can think of.
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02-19-2011, 12:34 AM

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Why don't you go look at a Japanese website or read a Japanese book? That's where you will see these phrases (and tons of them too). Not here.
I've been a little hard on Osakaboi here, but I think that's asking a little too much! "You have a question? Go read a book!"
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what is "Take This Job and Shove It" in japanese?
WOW either im high as a helicopter or i could have sworn i posted a perfect translation here for you dude! otherwise maybe a mod had removed it, the really messed up thing is though - im not sure if i did post it!!


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WOW either im high as a helicopter or i could have sworn i posted a perfect translation here for you dude! otherwise maybe a mod had removed it, the really messed up thing is though - im not sure if i did post it!!
Mod deleted it. You threatened three posters with a knife and quoted George Carlin's Seven Words routine at length.
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02-19-2011, 02:42 AM

OP never gives any context, never shows his/her own attempts, always asks questions with the fewest possible words, creates a new thread everytime s/he wonders about a phrase, etc. Thus, I, along with a few other native speakers gave up on him/her a long time ago.
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02-19-2011, 02:49 AM

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I've been a little hard on Osakaboi here, but I think that's asking a little too much! "You have a question? Go read a book!"
Well if he wants to know these phrases a book...would be ...without a doubt...the best source.
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