r/NonPoliticalTwitter 9h ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Beneficial_Layer_458 8h ago

come on man

u/TugboatThomas 6h ago

Baby stroller in japanese is ベビーカー which is basically pronouced "baby car" hahahaha when my teacher told me that I laughed for a good five minutes. Her greatest joy in our classes is when she gets to introduce an absurd katakana loan word.

u/Roflkopt3r 2h ago

I think the funniest ones are where English and Japanese sounds struggle to match up, so the transliteration into Japanese turns them into a total mess.

Like the word 'Waitress' became adopted as ウェイトレス (Ueitoresu).

And 'Bible' (バイブル - Baiburu) is only one character apart from 'Vibrator' (バイブ - Baibu).