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Twitter in Translation - Japanese 101 Edition (with today's hot-off-the-press tweets!)

May 17, 2011 15:22

Today I nearly lost it when I was reading Twitter. You may recall that I translated some old tweets by Mr. Hirasawa about his vegetarian diet and the names he gives his meals. TODAY HE TWEETED ABOUT HIS FOOD SPECIFICALLY FOR NON-JAPANESE READERS. I thought I'd share, as it's already quite thrilling to be mocked as a regular "horse bone/nobody" on ( Read more... )

translation: twitter, artist: hirasawa susumu

Comments 5

aural_elixir May 17 2011, 21:08:15 UTC

Oh my goodness, he's onto us… O_O

When I saw this today I was trying to work it out, so thanks for clarification! Although I'm still trying to get over the absence of a gokigenyou… But still, there was a dietary post, so normality of a kind is restored. ^_^

starhaushinka May 18 2011, 01:04:35 UTC

Yeaah!! I laughed so hard when I saw his tweet written in hiragana saying so, I thought "well that explains he has been reading foreigner's greetings popping out in his twitter menu" but the food bit!! didn't notice it at all roflmao he's really onto us!! (which would be freakin awesome *O*)

also lots, and lots of Tsunderesawa

Thank you so much for recent and past translations of his tweets again!! C8

starhaushinka May 18 2011, 01:05:00 UTC

darn, me and my typos lol

xpaperplanex May 18 2011, 01:05:47 UTC

You know, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he found you out. Nothing is secret on the internet, not even twitter translations.

tenshi_saito May 20 2011, 04:33:26 UTC

Oh wow, yeah I, even with little knowledge of Japanese, have to agree that kana-only Japanese is harder. At least with kanji meanings are more definite and it's easier to keep words separate (at least when kana only is written without spaces).

It's funny though, Hirasawa must find the idea of him having foreign fans amusing. Random hiragana tweeting must throw his Japanese fans off even more than it surprises us!