Funniest/most bizarre iKnow sentence

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Reply #1 - 2009 February 27, 1:36 pm
Nuriko Member
From: CA Registered: 2008-01-07 Posts: 603

Looking through the sentences on iKnow, you don't find too many extremely interesting ones at first glance.  It's mostly just essential things you need, right?
  But every once in awhile there's something that just throws you off like this:
”彼女の眉毛は太いな！”
...what? Her eyebrows are fat? (more specifically "thick")  I couldn't pass up this randomly bizarre sentence.  AND that randomly bizarre sentence comes with audio! (...that's probably what makes it the most interesting by the way.  The speaker sounds like he's admiring the girl's thick eyebrows or something).

Care to point us in the direction of the most entertaining iKnow sentences you've come across?

Reply #2 - 2009 February 27, 3:00 pm
Machine_Gun_Cat Member
From: auckland Registered: 2009-01-22 Posts: 184

Thats priceless, you're right about it sounding like the guys admiring her masculine thick eyebrows... what a creepy guy

Reply #3 - 2009 February 27, 3:36 pm
bodhisamaya Guest

Actually, in some cultures, thick eyebrows are considered sexy.

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Reply #4 - 2009 February 27, 4:45 pm
QuackingShoe Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-04-19 Posts: 721

I've been known to appreciate a good thick eyebrow or two.

Reply #5 - 2009 March 02, 8:08 am
kfmfe04 Member
From: 台北 Registered: 2007-10-21 Posts: 487

犯人は警察に捕まる前に自殺しました。

Not so bizarre, but "very Japanese" - the criminal committed suicide before he was caught by the police - more Japanese in more ways than one...

Here's another:

自国の文化を大切にしましょう。

Hehehe - very traditional/conservative...

Last edited by kfmfe04 (2009 March 02, 8:13 am)

Reply #6 - 2009 March 02, 11:10 am
Zarxrax Member
From: North Carolina Registered: 2008-03-24 Posts: 949

My favorite would have to be 彼女は足が太い。
She has fat legs.

Especially with the picture... it just seems so wrong :p

Last edited by Zarxrax (2009 March 02, 11:11 am)

Reply #7 - 2009 March 02, 12:52 pm
bodhisamaya Guest

It is not funny or bizarre, but I can never read this out loud correctly the first time:
これはかなり金がかかった

Reply #8 - 2009 March 02, 1:42 pm
kfmfe04 Member
From: 台北 Registered: 2007-10-21 Posts: 487

Zarxrax wrote:

My favorite would have to be 彼女は足が太い。
She has fat legs.

Especially with the picture... it just seems so wrong :p

ハハハ！大根足だ！

They have a special name for that in Japanese ;^)

Reply #9 - 2009 March 02, 1:50 pm
Nuriko Member
From: CA Registered: 2008-01-07 Posts: 603

Zarxrax wrote:

My favorite would have to be 彼女は足が太い。
She has fat legs.

Especially with the picture... it just seems so wrong :p

Dang are Japanese men always concerned with the girth of a woman's leg!

Reply #10 - 2009 March 03, 1:19 am
cjlacz Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2008-06-05 Posts: 15

Nuriko wrote:

Zarxrax wrote:

My favorite would have to be 彼女は足が太い。
She has fat legs.

Especially with the picture... it just seems so wrong :p

Dang are Japanese men always concerned with the girth of a woman's leg!

I think women are more concerned about it then the men.  smile

kfmfe04 mentioned it first, but they say 大根足 in Japanese.  Good word to learn.

Reply #11 - 2009 March 03, 1:28 am
kfmfe04 Member
From: 台北 Registered: 2007-10-21 Posts: 487

Nuriko wrote:

Dang are Japanese men always concerned with the girth of a woman's leg!

Apparently, this is true.  I remember seeing on a variety show, I think it was "London Hearts" (the most despised show by parents) that did a survey on what Japanese men first look at in women.

Of course, all the normal "body parts" were on the list, but by far, #1 on the list was "legs".

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