Of course it can be spoilerish if you haven't seen 10.06
http://members.lycos.nl/frtrtk/ichiban/
Can anyone translate the characters on these 3 captures? I think I have all the ones there were. (there were a lot of repeats of the same characters) I'm just curious what it says, and I guess there will be a lot of people with the same question. :)
Coffee Mug wrote:
have all
My japanese is rather basic but looking in the dictionary i found these
first, ichiban 一番 means "the best" or "the first"
The first kanji (chinese character) 様 is read "sama" that is a more polite version of the usual "san" used after names. It can also mean "appearence".
The second 思 i haven't found it alone but is used in the adjective "omoi" that can mean a lot of things. Here i think it can mean "feeling" or "emotion".
The last one, えば様式が eba youshiki ga, literally means "It's Eba Style", Eba style is a style of kimono http://www15.0038.net/~rikaboo/English/design-e.html, but i cannot make exactly what it means here.
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HTH, Gabriel
Thanks for your quick reply!
I've added another capture, where the same characters are used: (it was at the end of the commercial)
??? (copy paste works!)
Maybe that makes more sense. :)
But I should have changed the settings! ???
Oh well... What I meant to say was: omoi sama omoi
Coffee Mug wrote:
In OE you need to manually change the encoding of the message before sending otherwise it sends with the default enconding (ISO-8859-1 for western european languages) transforming unknown characters to question marks.
思様思 doesn't exist and I think is just the former kanji thrown together. A far fetched guess can be "Mr. Feeling experience" (思様 "omo sama" Mr Feeling 思 "omo" experience or emotion) but that is as far as i can guess.
The i in "omoi" is the adjective ending the kanji by itself is read "omo"
Bye, Gabriel
Basically, it's a bunch of gibberish that doesn't make sense. I guess it could be an inside joke on how many Japanese products have gibberish English on them.
I am a REAL Japanese, but I can't get what the characters mean cuz they aren't correct Japanese. Maybe each character must be used because of its look or shape.
Ochi