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[Dinner]

Turning Japanese


The Vapors

I've got your picture of me and you
You wrote "I love you" I love you too
I sit there staring and there's nothing else to do
Oh it's in color Your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel And soft as clouds
I often kiss you when there's no one else around

I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million of you over myself
I asked the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down
And turning in and turning 'round

I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million of them over myself
I want the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down
and turning in and turning 'round

I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a psyched lone-ranger
Everyone
That's why I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
(think so think so think so)
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so

Turning Japanese - 1980

[Frankychan]

Gomenee--->go-men-nay

Gomenasai

****sureishima****a

Sumimasen


All basically saying that your sorry...Although the 3rd one is more formal.

As for katakana, it's easier for us non-Japanese to understand but my friend said that when she looks at it, she can read it but doesn't understand what it means.

So yeah, Japanese may not be able to recognize some katakana words... She's pretty funny. I think she's from Osaka.

[JohnT]

Pekka probably just has a thing about Japanese chicks in schoolgirl uniforms.

[DaShi]

Who doesn't?

[Dinner]

[Ted Striker]
I'd hit it.
[/Ted Striker]

[Timexwatch]

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[Timexwatch]

I'm into Japanese women who cook me dinner

[JohnT]

Originally posted by DaShi
Who doesn't?

Good point, that.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Frankychan
Gomenee--->go-men-nay

Gomenasai

****sureishima****a

Sumimasen


All basically saying that your sorry...Although the 3rd one is more formal.

****, sure is him as hit a?

Does go-men in itself mean anything?

Olen Randolph Ross.

[Meticulous Man]

One of my friends is a Japan freak, he has learnt to speak Japanese from pirated anime videos and often starts speaking Japanese when he's drunk. I don't know Japanese myself but I've studied several languages and I've gotten the impression that he actually has learnt to express quite a lot of things simply by watching videos.

[DaShi]

One of my students wrote a short story for my writing class about blowing up Tokyo and teaching the Japanese a lesson. Apparrently, this is Bin Laden's responsiblity as well. I used to think she was a good student.

[Pekka]

Tattila, yes!

JohnT, and why not? Who doesn't like Japanese girls.. Personally I don't like ones who pee on themselves and try to kill other people, but in general, sure why not. Japan needs me and I need Japan.

[Drake Tungsten]

One of my students wrote a short story for my writing class about blowing up Tokyo

[Wraith]

Ah, almost forgot a very entertaining link:

I am a Japanese School Teacher:

http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html

Stories from a gaijin teaching English in Japan.

--"Does go-men in itself mean anything?"

Gomen is a shorter, more casual apology.
Basically, the more formal you want to be when speaking Japanese, the longer it'll take you to say something.

Wraith
"Sore wa... himitsu desu."
-- Xellos ("Slayers Next")

[SnowFire]

Wraith: Ah, an excellent link. Yeah, I saw that a bit ago, and it's high quality stuff.

Nice quote, too. "Himitsu" is one of those random Japanese words that seems to pop up a lot, so it's easy to immediately figure out which quote that is. (Although the worst offender not in the preposition/pronoun category would have to be "tsubasa" for wings. Especially in songs; it seems like half of them have to randomly include wings whether or not it's relevant.)

While we're on the topic of random fun Japanese words, I'll have to give a vote to "Mezame" = "Awakening" as being one of the cooler sounding words. The fact that it's used as a song title for at least three great pieces of music in Japanese video games/anime has to add to it as well.