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07-04-2010, 09:40 AM
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There's lots of cross-cultural homophones like this, even in english. In the UK, 'natty' means something looks fashionable and smart, according to my Coloradan friends, 'natty' means something tangled and dirty. I also used to live in the same building as a Greek guy in Japan. In Greece they have a tradition of smashing plates, and you shout 'opa!' when you do so, which means something like hello/cheers. We went through a session where a lot of people broke a number of plates by accident and he, of course, jokingly shouted 'opa!' each time, other people joining in too. Too bad though, when we were in a restaurant in Kobe and someone knocked the waitress and she dropped a plate. 5 or 6 ryuugakusei shouted 'opa!', leaving all the Japanese people stunned, thinking we'd just randomly yelled out 'breasts!' at the poor woman. |
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07-04-2010, 10:18 AM
In Hungarian the word 'baka' means 'soldier' in slang.
We usually use this word for young soldiers, who just joined to the military. This is funny, I think. We in Hungarian usually play our language, and in Japanese there are any word which pronunciation is the same like one of our words. Other examples, there is a Japanese name 'Shou' (for example in the alice nine), and if you say it out, the pronunciation is the same like our word for salt. (in Hungarian: só) The other word, I think you know that Japanese word: seme Now, if you say this out loud, in Hungarian it's sound like 'someone's eyes'. And we have a special phrase in Hungarian about eyes, and if somebody know the meaning of the Japanese 'seme' this phrase's meaning become a bit...funny and somehow nasty. So we usually laugh a lot because of these. |
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07-04-2010, 11:21 AM
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Hhheeheh...NICE....and what about 'Saga' eh?? (guitarist of alice nine) ....in hungarian the pronounciation of 'Saga' is the same like the word for 'someone's smell' (hungarian: szaga) hehehehh funny, isn't it?? |
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07-04-2010, 06:02 PM
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I saw a dorama some month ago, and one the girl's name was Erika. I looked like this --> O_________O when I heard it. xD |
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07-04-2010, 06:11 PM
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yeah....but the topic is about difference....SOOOO...what do ya think about the word : 'tora' ( also the name of the guitarist offfffffffff...yeah alicenine. 'Tora'....A9 is a weird band....) |
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07-04-2010, 06:16 PM
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his name mean in hungarian: 'someone's burial-feast' x"DDDDDDDDDDDDD |
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07-04-2010, 06:27 PM
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and it also means the second part of the insect body 'tor'=thorax so 'tora' means the bodypart of an insect..the insect's thorax. XDDDD |
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