Punny Japanese: There's Some Ginger! edo@punnyjapanese.com
This blog is one gaijin's attempt to learn Japanese through mnemonics, puns, and general linguistic absurdity.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
One Hundred Thousand
Zさん:"ね、ね、I have a riddle for you."
Aさん:「Oh, here we go...」
Zさん:"What do you call a string of 100,000 characters?"
Aさん:「I don't know, what?」
Zさん:"十万字。"
Aさん:「Yeah, I didn't like that movie, but I still liked it better than your puns.」
Z-san explains: "十万字(juumannji) sounds like 'Jumanji' and literally means 100,000 characters."
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