The latest edition of Kansai Time Out has a funny article about the Kanji Typo Contest
This is a contest where members of the public send in examples of kanji typos which happen when someone enters a word in hiragana, presses the space bar to change it into kanji yet chooses the wrong word or phrase.
The article gives a few examples such as 今年から海外に住み始めました。（Kotoshi kara kaigai ni sumihajimemashita, This year I began living abroad”) accidentally written as 今年から貝が胃に住み始めました (This year shellfish have taken up residence in my stomach)
今日は見に来てくれてありがとう (Kyo wa mi ni kite kurete arigato, Thank you for coming to see us today)
今日はミニ着てくれてありがとう (Kyo wa mini kite kurete arigato, Thank you for wearing a miniskirt today)
うちの子は耳下腺炎でした (Uchi no ko wa jikasenen deshita, Our child had parotiditus [inflammation of the ear])
うちの子は時価千円でした (Uchi no ko wa jika senen deshita, The going price for our child was 1,000 yen)
You can see more at (the all Japanese) Kanji Typo Contest
Very funny!
If you can understand those Japanese kanji oyaji gaggu, why do you need an English language bookshop? Took me hours!
Not quite. They were laboriously copied from the article itself.
Dang. Giving away my secrets again!
Hoho…some of those are great.
Must ask one thing though. Do you understand japanese? Sometimes it feels like you talk japanese fluent and then sometimes it feels like you have no clue at all about the japanese language.
I know Japanese. But I don’t KNOW Japanese.