Comments | l33tminion: Kanji Scrabble #1: Sunny Days

l33tminion

Kanji Scrabble #1: Sunny Days

Apr 22, 2009 18:01

JapanesePod101.com has started the following challenge: Given a key kanji and a bunch of other kanji, how many compounds can you make containing the key and at least one of the others? Today's challenge: [日]　二、本、一、国、人、十、中、三、時

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Comments 8

peebeebaynut April 23 2009, 01:15:48 UTC

Can you say "only in America would sushi be mistaken for sashimi" in Japanese yet?

l33tminion April 23 2009, 01:33:10 UTC

アメリカだけで寿司と刺身と間違えます。

Had to double-check the kanji for sushi and sashimi, though, since I don't know those. And I changed the verb to the active voice make the sentence simpler.

peebeebaynut April 23 2009, 11:31:11 UTC

1337!

peebeebaynut April 23 2009, 11:36:22 UTC

Google translate says what you wrote means:

間違EMASU and sushi and sashimi in the U.S. alone.

Google misspelled "EMACS". I'll have to file an SPR.

julieho April 23 2009, 06:22:32 UTC

Excellent post! :)

l33tminion April 23 2009, 14:46:53 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it!

kmo April 23 2009, 12:51:46 UTC

I don't see any kanji. Only boxes with numbers in them.

l33tminion April 23 2009, 14:41:29 UTC

Either you don't have fonts that cover those characters or your browser is set to the wrong encoding (in Firefox, View > Character-Encoding > Auto-Detect > Universal will almost always do the right thing). If it's the former, how to correct that problem depends on what OS you're using (here's the solution for XP, for example).