ROFL!

[elfs]

A while ago, I blogged about Mari-Tan, a painfully cute little Japanese "How to speak English" book, the premise of which was that the dialogue came entirely from the movie Full Metal Jacket.

I'm glad somebody saw the comedy value of this, because if you can find it look up the comic Girl with the Reckless Tongue, which takes this to its logical conclusion: what if someone from Japan actually learned most of their English from Mari-Tan? It's a short one-shot doujin-- and hentai-- in which the two rivals, one cocky and one wimpy, attempt to date a girl who speaks entirely in Marine Sergeant, and of course the wimpy one wins because he's used to such language and it's no blow to his ego as long as he's getting laid by the prettiest girl on campus.

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Re: Mari-tan

[nojay.livejournal.com]

There's a gaijin character in "Genshiken" -- hold on a mo while I get the book off the shelf -- ah, Sue, who speaks Japanese in phrases memorised from manga and anime.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, on the flipside:

In "Sure You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," Richard Feynman writes that, after the war, he went to Japan for a physics conference and tried to make an effort to learn some Japanese beforehand. Unfortunately, his source material was an Army phrasebook, so he spent most of the trip barking orders to his shocked and terrified hotel staff. :)

Number 127

[grum]

That comic sounds like fun, but you appear to be the only one on the internet to have referenced it by that title. Do you have any hints for finding it?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I think the anglicized title is Bougen Girl.