Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts

Monday, October 2, 2017

Ambiguity

I don't have much of an idea of what I want to post, and it has been a while, so here are some ambiguous sentences I came up with a couple of seconds ago.
こーりのかみをとけました
氷の神を溶けました
"I melted the ice-god"
コーリの髪を解けました
"I untangled Corey's hair"
きみはしたいけどわたしはしたくない
君はしたいけど、私はしたくない
"You want to do it, but I don't"
君は死体けど私は下苦無
"You are a corpse, but I am lower-kunai"

This one, I came up with a while ago (and it works surprisingly well)
きみのなわ
君の名は
"Your Name"
気味の縄
"The Rope of Sensations"
That's all for now.

Friday, May 19, 2017

False Etymologies and Kanji: Day 1

I am excited to present my first installment of...

*drumroll*

...FE&K, also known as 無実語源と漢字 (if you want a translation, look at the title of this post ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This is going to be a semi-regular (read: whenever I think of any) feature with my legitimate mistaken etymologies and my humorous mistaken etymologies; namely, how I think a word I hear is written, or how I think a word should be written, along with the meaning that would come from that, the real writing, and the real meaning.


Let's begin:
事実ひらがな: The Word 無実書き方: False Writing 無実意味: False Meaning 事実書き方:True Writing 事実意味:True Meaning
みずから 水から from water 自ら (for) oneself
はなから 花から from a flower 端から from the beginning
てつや 鉄屋 iron store 徹夜 pulling an all-nighter
あいさつ/td> 愛殺 killing for love あいさつ greetings

If I think of any more, they are going to go into the next FE&K, so stay tuned. Don't touch that dial. No one knows what it does, but the last person who touched it was never seen again. In the sense that everyone else went blind.