Sales Officials Who Should Be Fired

[tongodeon]

"There's no denying PCs are losing their spunk in Japanese consumers' eyes," said Hiroyuki Ishii, a sales official at Japan's top PC maker, NEC Corp.

Comments

[arian1]

Tentacle.

[erikred]

Yar, or, more likely, AP writers who should be fired. I doubt he used the English word "spunk" in his statement.

[tongodeon]

I've showed this to two native Japanese speakers and they think someone's playing a joke. Given the way that you would say this in japanese, this isn't the kind of mistake that would naturally emerge from a simple inaccurate translation.

[erikred]

There ya go. Idiomatic translation is hard and boring. Spice up your articles with spunk!

[erikred]

Also, out of curiosity, did they go with "ninki naku naru" or "genki naku naru"? If he said "genki," a tragic mistranslation could lead to "losing their spunk" pretty quickly.

[spiritualmonkey]

Japan.

Is there anything their technology can't accomplish?

[tongodeon]

They're just ahead of the times. In three to five years our computers will be ejaculating in our faces and we'll wonder how we ever got along without it.

[spiritualmonkey]

Yeah, but by then they'll have cell-phones that jizz all over the users chin.

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So, abacus lesson anyone?

[quercus]

deathboy, is that you?

[flwyd]

Japanese PC manufacturers must be catching up to typewriter manufacturers in Interzone.

most insightful...

[drieuxster]

ah yes... the glories of progress...

[eutheria]

I'm watching Weeds season 2, this episode. Celia and Doug are having sex (these are two major characters, they always hated each other, and suddenly were filled with passion!!). About to orgasm, Celia begins barking like a dog. Doug is taken aback momentarily, then cheers her on, with a 'Good girl! Good girl!'

[eutheria]

(I'm a couple seasons behind, so forgive me if this becomes a more obvious plot point and everyone knows about it but me)