Today is Mandela day, so even though he may eye your crotch all day, please do not ridicule his state of mind.

Or for that matter, mention his loose watery BM.

(I am woefully lacking in knowledge of Sanskrit)

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you must have missed the world cup.

Why in the world would Mandela eyes your crotch all day and have loose BM?

I don't get the sarcasm and my brains are overheating...

Mandela sounds like "mandala", as in Heisig's primitive, and Mushi-chan is giving example stories for "ridicule" and "loose", kanji that use said primitive.

So whether it's funny or witty remains open to debate, but at least it's not a complete WTF.

Delina Wrote:Mandela sounds like "mandala", as in Heisig's primitive.

That's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title of this thread. lol

Delina Wrote:Mandela sounds like "mandala", as in Heisig's primitive, and Mushi-chan is giving example stories for "ridicule" and "loose", kanji that use said primitive.

So whether it's funny or witty remains open to debate, but at least it's not a complete WTF.

ohh, 曼荼羅

と、

傲慢のマン＝慢
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=慢

と、

漫画のマン＝漫
http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8...6121124000

ね？

Thanks a lot. I can sleep now. Sorry 虫さん for dissecting the frog.

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the world celebrated the fun and laughter of the world cup. south africa still has challenges but they came together to celebrate football and life. it was an amazing month and I already miss it.

I doubt any major sports event will be held on the continent of Africa in the next several decades due to those annoying bee swarm noises drowning out the World Cup. That will be what most people outside of Spain will remember about South Africa hosing the world's most popular sporting event (my apologies to the Olympics).

chris9687 Wrote:Why would someone like Nelson Mandella have a day. Its slightly controversial to say the least considering his views.

I would say this 10,000 times - I always remember Mandela as the MAN (まん).

bodhisamaya Wrote:I doubt any major sports event will be held on the continent of Africa in the next several decades due to those annoying bee swarm noises drowning out the World Cup. That will be what most people outside of Spain will remember about South Africa hosing the world's most popular sporting event (my apologies to the Olympics).

I thought the vuvuzelas were cool.

Is there someone who can second the support for those instruments from hell? Or am I justified in vilifying them as the tool that blackballs the continent of Africa from hosting sporting events for a generation?

OK. I don't know if you guys know キャプテン翼. It's an old soccer Anime. And I don't know much about soccer, but if I wanted to watch it and it was like this

http://ayacnews2nd.com/archives/51658968.html

I think I'll bang my head to the TV until I crack my head open.

masaman Wrote:OK. I don't know if you guys know キャプテン翼. It's an old soccer Anime.

Where I live, you literally can't find a male around my age that doesn't respond to "Captain Tsubasa" with a nostalgic reminiscence of his childhood.

masaman Wrote:And I don't know much about soccer, but if I wanted to watch it and it was like this

http://ayacnews2nd.com/archives/51658968.html

I think I'll bang my head to the TV until I crack my head open.

Fortunately its only like that in Africa, rest of the world gets its dose of football without additional soundtrack of the vuvuzelas.

Quote:Where I live, you literally can't find a male around my age that doesn't respond to "Captain Tsubasa" with a nostalgic reminiscence of his childhood.

You definitely don't live in Colorado

It's amazing how some Animes are so popular all over the world. It was unthinkable when I was a little kid.

It seems some anime came to Holland and nowhere else, like Maple Town ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Town ) and Samurai Pizza Cats ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Pizza_Cats ). I'm pretty the latter was shown in English (American accents), but I have yet to find an American who knows it. Anyway, I loved these shows as a kid. ^^

I've never tried Tsubasa, but I can always get nostalgic feelings out of native speakers my age by saying things like 我が生涯に一片の悔いなし！ and 退かぬ！媚びぬ！省みぬ！

(And of course YOUはSHOCK.

yudantaiteki Wrote:I've never tried Tsubasa, but I can always get nostalgic feelings out of native speakers my age by saying things like 我が生涯に一片の悔いなし！ and 退かぬ！媚びぬ！省みぬ！

(And of course YOUはSHOCK.

I'm reading this at the moment. Almost made my head explode on several occasions

Wow, People in Holland seem to know more Anime than I do.
It's surprising how many Japanese words are actually loan words from Dutch though.

http://weblog.simplifysimplify.net/?p=4
カラン　kraan［クラーン］ 栓、蛇口
ゴム　gom［ゴム］ ゴム
コップ　kop［コップ］ コップ、頭部
スコップ　schop［スホップ］　スコップ、シャベル。ちなみに、シャベルはshovelで英語。
ズック　doek［ドゥーク］　織物
ドンタク　zontag［ゾンタフ］　日曜日。だから、半分休みの土曜日は、半分日曜→半分ドンタク→半ドン
ビール　bier［ビール］　ビール
ピント　brandpunt［ブラントプント］　焦点。英語ではfocus
ポン酢　pons［ポンス］　橙などの柑橘類の絞り汁、パンチ（現地ですでに死語となっている）。
マドロス　matroos［マートロース］　船員
メス　mes［メス］　ナイフ、小刀
ランドセル ransel［ランセル］　背嚢、ナップサック
カルキ　kalk［カルク］　石灰
ブリキ　blik［ブリク］　ブリキ
レッテル　letter［レテル］　文字
ポマード　pommade［ポマード］　ポマード

I didn't even know ポン酢 was from Dutch... Yeah I've always kind of wondered what ポン is.

I was gonna introduce a Japanese joke about 退かぬ！媚びぬ！省みぬ！and women's driving technique, but I'm such a wimp, I chickened out.

And Evil_Dragon, お前はすでに死んでいる。