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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Now that's just 尺卂匚丨丂ㄒ😅

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I have no idea what any of that means, but I've recognised the word "coffee" on the cup and everything else became irrelevant. I want one.

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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The cup is using Japanese letters that look somewhat like English letters to spell "Soul of Coffee". The comment is how those letters are read in Japanese.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    All us former or present weebs that once learned Hiragana, Katakana, maybe 5 words and phrases, and basically nothing else, understand. (And the people actually speaking Japanese, too)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can't learn Japanese from anime alone

    If you think you can then あなたはバカ

    (Please do not reply to me in Japanese because I can't communicate it in fluently yet because I'm still learning it)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, back then I totally also used.... some websites I found on google. And, uhm.... I think I remember printing out a torrented professional Japanese handbook, making a fancy folder to put it in and then.... never actually using it. :D

    As you can see, teenage/young adult me was very realistic and very committed!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I am committed to it right now but currently keeping an eye on a cyclone (hurricane for americans) to make sure it doesn't hit land

    Hoping it'll just pass by

    I do have a procrastination problem as well that I somehow need to get over

    Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I'm aware of there being torrents for it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Good luck, dealing with procrastination is hard, but it definitely is doable!

    Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I’m aware of there being torrents for it

    Sadly, I genuinely don't remember, was around 2010 or so, so quite a while back.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Anime is a really good tool if it's something you're into. Just have a dictionary pulled up if you hear words you don't know. I've been studying Japanese for ~5 years now and the first 2 years were mostly just listening to anime and doing kanji flashcards. You can get surprisingly far with just anime, but yeah it can't be the only tool. 勉強は頑張ってください 🙂

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No wonder why I couldn't read that, I was trying to read the Japanese because I'm learning it

    It's not Japanese, they really should not do that because their going to confuse a lot of bilingual folk

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago*

    SAUL OF COFFEE

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I love the fact that it's katakana, a script only used for foreign words, including anglizisms. So in order to make it look exotic, it's a Japanese script, but one that's used by Japanese for exotic words, which is fitting because it's actually an English words. So by making it double exotic, they reveal the fact that it's not exotic at all. Meta.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    oh shit, I just now realize that it's supposed to spell "Soul of coffee".

    I was super confused about all the weird mixing and just assumed my absolute beginner japanese skills were not good enough for whatever mix use case that was

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I've become so averse to this kinda branding to the point where I'd just prefer them to use a translated version I can't read and some tiny English for anything important.

    I'm not scared of kanji! If you're gonna lean into Asian languages for your marketing just use the damn languages properly!!!!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Do these starbucks like drink can be even thought as a "coffee"? I remember trying out Starbucks once and I have felt barely any energy increase

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    no one who likes scripture would do this. no one who doens't like scripture should get money for that.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Reminds me of the game Contraband Police that used Cyrillic Соитяaьаид on the poster which reads "Soityaa'aid Police"

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    You (or Google Translate, I assume) used the wrong rule. 支配 is rule as in ruling over something. The correct rule would be 規則.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Imagina if terochichimomo was the actual name of coffee in Japanese (?). Pretty crazy.

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