thecite wrote:

猿やゴリラの社会についての本を読んだ。 私の会社に似ている。

I thought that was fairly funny.
The writers of KO seem to have put a lot of self-opinion influenced sentences in.

Yes some of the opinions bug me but then I take a deep breath and realise it's quite possibly what someone else would say.  Thus it won't hurt to learn it.

One of my favourites is:
いくら科学が進歩しても、タイムマシンを作るのは不可能だ。
No matter how much science advances, it is still impossible to create a time machine.

We all know that time machines could possibly exist - heaven't they heard of parallel universes? 

I get greatly upset when this one comes up in reviews. I then spend the next 1/2 hour justifying to myself that it could exist and keep working on my machine.

Blank wrote:

My favorite is still mezbup's original one. Sounds like a conspiracy theorist.

I swear the voice actor threw it in at the last moment without anyone noticing.

友達に借りた本を読んだ。 税金についての本だ。

I read the book that I borrowed from my friend. I was a book about taxes.

Who does that? Srsly?

アインシュタインの理論は複雑だ。普通の人は理解できない。 (Einstein's theory is complicated. Ordinary people cannot understand it.)

This one is my pet peeve. I'm not saying that all of Einstein's work is simple to understand, but special relativity is (it only requires 中学生 level maths) and it really opens one's mind to a different way of thinking about time and the universe.

電車が脱線したが、乗員も乗客も無事だった。

Don't sound like no derailing i've ever heard of.

Codexus wrote:

mezbup wrote:

Don't sound like no derailing i've ever heard of.

Could it be that a derailing with no victims is hardly worth mentioning in the news?

なるほど。

Codexus wrote:

アインシュタインの理論は複雑だ。普通の人は理解できない。 (Einstein's theory is complicated. Ordinary people cannot understand it.)

This one is my pet peeve. I'm not saying that all of Einstein's work is simple to understand, but special relativity is (it only requires 中学生 level maths) and it really opens one's mind to a different way of thinking about time and the universe.

You've made me spend RTK time on the theory of relativity, you did good my friend...
And KO sentence is correct

vosmiura wrote:

How about 地球から月の裏側を見ることはできない。  It is impossble to see the back of the moon from the Earth. Duh.

That's actually an interesting and little known fact - the moon rotates at the same speed as the earth, so the same half is always facing us, and the other half (the "dark side of the moon") is always facing away.

No one knew what it looked like until 1959!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon

Last edited by aphasiac (2009 August 27, 5:22 pm)

Wally wrote:

aphasiac wrote:

vosmiura wrote:

How about 地球から月の裏側を見ることはできない。  It is impossble to see the back of the moon from the Earth. Duh.

That's actually an interesting and little known fact - the moon rotates at the same speed as the earth, so the same half is always facing us, and the other half (the "dark side of the moon") is always facing away.

No one knew what it looked like until 1959!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon

Not quite stated accurately, because it has nothing to do with the Earth's rotational speed.  Better to day the moon's rotational speed is the same as its own orbital period, thus facing the same side constantly to the center point of its orbit.  (Gravitational interplay between bodies of different size usually result in this, after very long periods of time; Mercury is locked into the same thing with the sun -- one side perpetually faces it.)

Moon's also leaving.  Doesn't like the neighborhood I guess.  About 2.6 cm a year (about the same speed as my hairline) , so only 16 miles in a million years.  But it's eventually outta here.

Blank wrote:

This one just came up in Anki and I remember laughing when I first saw it...

子供のころ怖い話を聞くと、1人でトイレに行けなかった。

"When I was a child, I would not be able to go to the toilet if I heard a horror story."

yeah I rofl'd at that one too.

Anyone else getting really sick of スミスさん?

rrrrrray wrote:

mezbup wrote:

yeah I rofl'd at that one too.

Anyone else getting really sick of スミスさん?

Definitely.. lol
Why not just use some real Japanese name while we are at it!

ever notice how much more ass 林さん san kicks??

日本語の漢字は５万以上ある。でも、よくつかう漢字は１，５００以下だ。

Right... and the official common use kanji list from the government just got completely ignored.

Okay I think we should start compiling a formal list of these, because some of them are priceless.  Also it'll make me feel less guilty about buying KO2001 and then switching to pretty much only using the smart.fm lists in KO order.