Feel free to practice writing in Japanese or romaji. Help each other out with corrections or replying back in Japanese
-
Dustin
- Posts: 589
- Joined: Sun 07.13.2008 9:41 pm
- Native language: English
- Gender: Male
Post
by Dustin » Thu 01.13.2011 2:36 pm
NileCat wrote:Q. なぜシンデレラは良いサッカー選手になれなかったのか？
A. 彼女は靴をなくし、舞踏会から逃げ、馬車はカボチャだったから。
Why wasn't cinderella a good soccer player?
Because she lost her shoes, runs from the ball, and has a pumpkin for a coach!
**got ninja'd by Furrykef cause I was too busy talking to phreadom in chat
**
-
NileCat
- Posts: 1168
- Joined: Sat 08.01.2009 2:11 pm
- Native language: Japanese
- Location: Tokyo
Post
by NileCat » Thu 01.13.2011 2:43 pm
furrykef wrote:
Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:
Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。
What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
A 「目のない鹿のことを何ていう？」
B 「わかりません」
A 「死んだ目のない鹿のことは何ていう？」
B 「まだわかりません」
-
Dustin
- Posts: 589
- Joined: Sun 07.13.2008 9:41 pm
- Native language: English
- Gender: Male
Post
by Dustin » Thu 01.13.2011 2:51 pm
NileCat wrote:furrykef wrote:
Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:
Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。
What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
/facepalm
-
furrykef
- Posts: 1572
- Joined: Thu 01.10.2008 9:20 pm
- Native language: Eggo (ワッフル語の方言)
- Gender: Male
-
Contact:
Post
by furrykef » Thu 01.13.2011 2:59 pm
NileCat wrote:A 「目のない鹿のことを何ていう？」
B 「わかりません」
A 「死んだ目のない鹿のことは何ていう？」
B 「まだわかりません」
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No idear ("No-eye deer")
What do you call a dead deer with no eyes?
Still no idear
Good one!
Let's see now...
Q: 足のない牛のことを何ていう？
A: 挽肉
-
Dustin
- Posts: 589
- Joined: Sun 07.13.2008 9:41 pm
- Native language: English
- Gender: Male
Post
by Dustin » Thu 01.13.2011 3:04 pm
furrykef wrote:
Q: 足のない牛のことを何ていう？
A: 挽肉
What do you call a cow with no legs?
Ground beef!
-
furrykef
- Posts: 1572
- Joined: Thu 01.10.2008 9:20 pm
- Native language: Eggo (ワッフル語の方言)
- Gender: Male
-
Contact:
Post
by furrykef » Thu 01.13.2011 3:12 pm
Well, pbbthh. Got a follow-up?
-
chikara
- Posts: 3577
- Joined: Tue 07.11.2006 10:48 pm
- Native language: English (Australian)
- Gender: Male
- Location: Australia (SA)
-
Contact:
Post
by chikara » Thu 01.13.2011 7:45 pm
furrykef wrote:....
Q: 足のない牛のことを何ていう？
A: 挽肉
Minced beef
That joke doesn't translate into Australian or British English. I only know what "ground beef" is because I lived in the USA for a time. I don't believe that term is used outside of North America.
Q: あなたはどこで足のない牛を見付けますか
A: どこに置きました
Don't complain to me that people kick you when you're down. It's your own fault for lying there
-
NileCat
- Posts: 1168
- Joined: Sat 08.01.2009 2:11 pm
- Native language: Japanese
- Location: Tokyo
Post
by NileCat » Fri 01.14.2011 8:20 am
chikara wrote:
Q: あなたはどこで足のない牛を見付けますか
A: どこに置きました
Q: Where do you find a cow with no legs?
A: Where did you leave it?
correct?
-
furrykef
- Posts: 1572
- Joined: Thu 01.10.2008 9:20 pm
- Native language: Eggo (ワッフル語の方言)
- Gender: Male
-
Contact:
Post
by furrykef » Fri 01.14.2011 10:36 am
I'm pretty sure that's the joke, but it doesn't seem to rely on an untranslatable quality.
(By which I mean it isn't necessarily funny in Japanese -- I wouldn't know -- but it seems comprehensible, though the translation seems overly literal.)
-
Disco
- Posts: 130
- Joined: Sat 03.28.2009 6:33 pm
- Native language: English
- Location: California
-
Contact:
Post
by Disco » Mon 01.17.2011 2:03 am
A:ね、ちゃんとお風呂に入りますか？
B:はい
A: キモイ！姉ちゃんとお風呂に入りますか？！ｗ
我輩はただの英国紳士でございます
-
chikara
- Posts: 3577
- Joined: Tue 07.11.2006 10:48 pm
- Native language: English (Australian)
- Gender: Male
- Location: Australia (SA)
-
Contact:
Post
by chikara » Mon 01.17.2011 9:44 pm
NileCat wrote:chikara wrote:
Q: あなたはどこで足のない牛を見付けますか
A: どこに置きました
Q: Where do you find a cow with no legs?
A: Where did you leave it?
correct?
Where you left it.
furrykef wrote:I'm pretty sure that's the joke, but it doesn't seem to rely on an untranslatable quality.
...
Oh
Don't complain to me that people kick you when you're down. It's your own fault for lying there
-
ss
- Posts: 1656
- Joined: Fri 11.18.2005 10:07 am
- Native language: English speaking family
Post
by ss » Mon 02.14.2011 11:55 pm
NileCat wrote:
Furrykef wrote:
Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:
Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。
What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
Furrykef, what's the answer?
-
Dustin
- Posts: 589
- Joined: Sun 07.13.2008 9:41 pm
- Native language: English
- Gender: Male
Post
by Dustin » Mon 02.14.2011 11:59 pm
ss wrote:NileCat wrote:
Furrykef wrote:
Don't forget to answer mine from earlier:
Q: 茶色のくっつくものは、何という？
A: 棒。
What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
Furrykef, what's the answer?
The answer is a stick, it's brown, and "stick"y ( sticklike ) LOL
-
ss
- Posts: 1656
- Joined: Fri 11.18.2005 10:07 am
- Native language: English speaking family
Post
by ss » Tue 02.15.2011 12:04 am
I thought it was a "lipstick". You know, there are many colors, and I do keep a brown lipstick in my bag, sometimes.
-
furrykef
- Posts: 1572
- Joined: Thu 01.10.2008 9:20 pm
- Native language: Eggo (ワッフル語の方言)
- Gender: Male
-
Contact:
Post
by furrykef » Tue 02.15.2011 8:27 am
Yep, Dustin's got it.
