Saturday, November 13, 2021

Hi エド

Aさん:「Hi, my name is A.」
Edさん:"Hi A, my name is Ed."
Aさん:「So I guess Japanese people call you エド。」
Edさん:"Yeah, except in texting I get しるし sometimes。"
Aさん:「... it's no <3 or o_O, but still mildly clever.」

Friday, November 5, 2021

トトロ

Zさん:"Why did Tokyo guided tours stop showing 'My Neighbor Totoro'?"
Aさん:「I don't know, why?」
Zさん:"Because Neko Bus ate Hato Bus."

Friday, October 29, 2021

Double Rainbow

Aさん:「The other day I saw something really cool in the sky: a double rainbow!」
Zさん:"So... you saw a 四じ...?"

Friday, October 22, 2021

Happy Hallow三三n

Zさん: "Happy Halloween!"
Aさん:「Back atcha!」
Zさん:"So do you know who lives in that creepy old house at the end of the block?"
Aさん:「That is the old lady known as the #3 killer.」
Zさん:"Why is she..."
お祖母さん:"Die Sonny! Die Sonny! Die Sonny!"
Zさん:"ooooh I get it, I mean, Run! I don't want the last moments of my life spent discussing moderately clever bilingual wordplay!" 

Friday, October 15, 2021

Cooperating Radicals

Zさん:"The kanji for 協力 (きょうりょく) makes me smile. All the various chikara radicals working together. Nice."

Saturday, October 9, 2021

TBS

Aさん:「There's this news & informational show on TBS called 'Asa-Chan' that I used to watch, but it was recently cancelled. I'm so disappointed!」
Zさん:"I thought TBS just showed Big Bang Theory reruns and miscellaneous mediocre comedy shows."
Aさん:「What?」
Zさん:"What?"

Friday, October 1, 2021

Zany Mnemonic Devices

1. I am a roo, I apologize.

2. Was a toe, on purpose

3. Koto was a proverb.

4. Now a rope.


Zさん:"I tried to create clever mnemonic devices by saying a Japanese word followed by its English translation, but the end result was chinpunkan gibberish."