気に入った！ うちに来て妹とフﾔﾂクしていい！

[elfs]

Kiniitta! Uchi ni kite imouto to "fuck" shiteii!, or, loosely translated, "I like you! Come over to the house and fuck my younger sister!" This is one of dozens of wonderful phrases to be found in まりたん (Maritan!), a two-manga set with 36 lessons on "How to pronounce English for Japanese speakers." Some of the other phrases to be found are "You talk the talk, do you walk the walk?", "You are the lowest form of life on Earth!", "You maggots are huffing and puffing the way your momma did the first time your old man put his meat to her!", "The smaller the dick the bigger the gun," and pronounciation guides and translations for SNAFU, SUSFU, FUMTU, FUBB, FUBAR, TARFU, TUIFU, and DILLIGAS! All done by very cutesy female characters in elegantly styled military uniforms.

What's even better is the CD that comes with the two-book collection, in which painfully 可愛い (kawaii) voice actresses read those lines out loud! I am totally ripping those and putting some of them on my cellphone.

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

[Checks date]

I suppose there are some people for whom such phrases would be useful, but I'm not sure I'd want to meet them.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It's not about the usefulness of those phrases. For me, it's about being highly entertained by the whole process long enough for me to reverse-engineer it. This series is by native Japanese speakers for native Japanese speakers and there's a ton of fascinating "surrounding" material explaining what each phrase means and how it's supposed to be used and so forth. Working my way through the "translator's explanations" is teaching me kanji that I should know, but do not. I don't think I'd ever actually use the sentence that's my subject, but learning the kanji for things like "I like you," "my house," "come over," and "my sister" are useful in and of themselves.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I can appreciate the point about learning kanji, but remember the Humgarian phrasebook sketch. (http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/TheHungarianPhrasebookSketch)

Excuse me, I must go and empty my hovercraft.

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I suppose JANFU is a more specialized usage that wouldnt' appear in a general-interest publication. And I'd always seen it as DILLIGAF, although I can see where DILLIGAS is a viable alternate.