Pictorial message - Illustration, 1979.
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Japan…is in….Asia…..
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japanese vs finnish
Japanese: hai, aisenai - yes, not love
Finnish: hai, ai se nai - shark, oh it’s fucking
japanese vs polish
Japanese: daisuki - I really like you
Polish: daj suki (you say it the same way) - give me bitches
I started Hebrew, which is why I’ve been dead on this blog, but I don’t think I can ever properly convey to you guys the sheer cultural whiplash of spending years learning Japanese from Japanese teachers and then trying to learn Hebrew from an Israeli
- Japanese: you walk into class already apologizing for being alive
Hebrew: you walk into class, the teacher insults you and you are expected to insult her back - Japanese: conjugates every single verb based on degree of intended politeness, nevermind keigo and honorifics
Hebrew: Someone asked my teacher how to say “excuse me” and she laughed for several seconds before saying we shouldn’t worry about remembering that since we’ll never need to say it - Japanese: if you get one stroke wrong the entire kanji is incomprehensible
Hebrew: cursive? script? fuck it do whatever you want, you don’t even have to write the vowels out unless you feel like it - Japanese: the closest thing there is to ‘bastard’ is an excessively direct ‘you’ pronoun
Hebrew: ‘bitch’ translates directly
Fun fact: Israel has possibly the lowest power-distance metric of any culture in the world, while Japan has one of the highest. I didn’t realize that the CTO of my company was the CTO until somebody else told me, because everybody called him by his first name and engaged in mutual shit-talking/playful insults with him.
In Japan, even calling your boss by the wrong honorific is liable to get you in trouble.
And apparently there’s some sciencey cooperative venture going on between Israel and Japan in an official diplomatic capacity. I want to be a fly on the wall when Japanese and Israeli scientists work together.
I AM MAJORING IN ANGEINT JAPANESE AND MORDERN JAPANESE AND EVWEN JAPANESE SLANG, YOU MOTHER FUCKING SASSHOLES. THAT SAYS LETTCUE IN ENGLSHES. IF YOU WER TO WRITE THE ENGLISH VERSsION ON A PEICE OF PAPER. MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU stupid dumbass ASS PEAOPLE OF TUMBLR!!! HE EVEN LOOK LIKE A HEAD OF LETTUCE??!!?? HE SAYD LAETIUCE! WHYY CANt U SEEEEEEE THAT YOU STUPID BUCKTS OF FILTH!?!!!!!! IT. SAYS/\ LETFUCTS!!!!
I AM MAJORING IN ANGEINT JAPANESE AND MORDERN JAPANESE AND EVWEN JAPANESE SLANG, YOU MOTHER FUCKING SASSHOLES. THAT SAYS LETTCUE IN ENGLSHES. IF YOU WER TO WRITE THE ENGLISH VERSsION ON A PEICE OF PAPER. MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU stupid dumbass ASS PEAOPLE OF TUMBLR!!! HE EVEN LOOK LIKE A HEAD OF LETTUCE??!!?? HE SAYD LAETIUCE! WHYY CANt U SEEEEEEE THAT YOU STUPID BUCKTS OF FILTH!?!!!!!! IT. SAYS/\ LETFUCTS!!!!
I just realized
Vore day falls on August the 8th.
That’s 8/8
That’s like.
Ate ate eat eat idk
Fun fact: The common belief is that vore day is on 8/8 as a pun of eight/ate, but I’ve heard that it was actually started by Japanese artists and the way 8/8 is written in Japanese is a pun on the sound a growling stomach makes.
Meaning we have a wonderfully cross cultural shared pun going on and if that isn’t the coolest shit then you are simply wrong.
!!!!!!
That is the coolest!
why is there a vore day
happy vore day everyone
I don’t agree with tumblr’s whole “you can’t enjoy this thing because it’s problematic” vibe, but watching Friends is weird now knowing that the actor who played Chandler led an invasion of Japan in 1863, which led to the forceful Westernisation of the isolated country.
1853.
I’m sorry, yes, the actor who played Chandler in Friends invaded Japan in 1853, not 1863.
I don’t agree with tumblr’s whole “you can’t enjoy this thing because it’s problematic” vibe, but watching Friends is weird now knowing that the actor who played Chandler led an invasion of Japan in 1863, which led to the forceful Westernisation of the isolated country.
1853.
I’m sorry, yes, the actor who played Chandler in Friends invaded Japan in 1853, not 1863.
