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6000334 No.6000334 [Reply] [Original]

Why do the japanese misspell the word "smoking" every single time?

>> No.6000352
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>>6000334
First time ever see it. Where have you seen it happening before OP?

>> No.6000359

They're not banning smoking, they're banning smorking.

Smorking is the Japanese practice of setting your penis on fire and raping a girl.

>> No.6000363
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>>6000352
Search "smorking" in google images.

>> No.6000370
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6000370

Not even street banners are safe!

>> No.6000374

>>6000359
sounds like oppression to me

>> No.6000376
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6000376

No smorking in the bus either!

>> No.6000378

>>6000376
The Japanese a 3 lines paragraph plus half a line and all it takes in English is "no smorking".

>> No.6000380
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And in bed. Don't do it.

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>>6000363
Damn. They really do that. Well i guess there is nothing we can do about their funny little typos. Oh those japanese!

>> No.6000403

They just hate shmorky

>> No.6000406
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6000406

I would like to enquire about information on this peculiar "smorking" activity the folk of japanese origin appear to be participating in.

I can honestly say it's quite the conundrum.

>> No.6000414

Smoking=スモーキング=Smorking

>> No.6000415

The average Jap's head is too small for its owner to think for himself so he must copy what the guy next to him does. If said guys commits an error, this error keeps propagating as nobody does anything to fix it.

>> No.6000421
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>>6000403
Why would they hate him, he makes the best Flash movies in the whole Internet.

>> No.6000425

>>6000414
So, where's the "r" in "sumokingu"?

>> No.6000442
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>> No.6000447

>>6000425
Which sounds more like スモーキング, smorking or smoking? Yeah.

>> No.6000450
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6000450

But it's ok in some places, too!

>> No.6000471

>>6000378
That's politeness. The Japanese is probably something like "Please would most highly respected smoking-san nonetheless refrain from participating in such activities within the confines of our humble establishment, which is fortunate to receive you."

>> No.6000485
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6000485

Why do the Japanese not know how to flush toilets?

>> No.6000488

>>6000471
Yeah, they could just replace the second half of each sentence with "くれ", and it'd mean roughly the same.

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6000490

Why do the Japanese not know how to hail a cab?

>> No.6000493

>>6000490
can you post the rest of those, didn't get a chance to save them from the thread earlier

>> No.6000494
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6000494

Why do the Japanese not know how to ---------?

>> No.6000496

>>6000488
I don't know what that means.

>> No.6000497

>>6000493
http://gzone-anime.info/UnitedSites/TypeMoon/pixmicat.php?res=97959

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>>6000497
ah thanks

>> No.6000528

>>6000378
>implying there isn't more information in the 3 lines
They actually tell the Japs where they can go if they want to smoke.

>> No.6000542

>>6000425
the Japs seem to be taught in school that R's (and H's) are often used to lengthen vowels in English. スモーキング has a lengthening ー, so they lengthen the vowel in the transliteration.

>> No.6003131
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6003131

It happens in other asian countries too, apparently.

>> No.6003147

>>6000542
Yes. It's like in "working" or "far".

working > ワーキング > waakingu
far > ファー > faa

So by that logic:
sumookingu > スモーキング > smorking

>> No.6003155

>>6003147
I laughed.

>> No.6003402

It must be the British spelling... they can't spell anything right either.

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