japanese-english translation.

Yes, they are speaking japanese for real. It is not just bullshit like I assume it was for the russian cosmonauts in "Pinkeye" The level of profanitys however is disapointingly low. My cousin and I tried to translate some of the japanese in the episode using an electronic japanese-english dictionary, and this is what we arrived at: (The spelling of the japanese words is just how it sound to me, I'm not claming it to be even slightly correct.)

Chinpokomon = "meaningless" or "something that does not make sense"

Classroom: tsu hatchi des ka = "is it not eighteen?" tsu hatchi da ne = "yes, eighteen it is" Garrison san tsabushi dana = "Mr Garrison is not fit to be a teacher." so de ne = "It is true" minata, kite kite, tsjuri = "hey you guys, listen to this!" What Wendy is saying next is impossible for me to make out due to the quality of the rm file and the background laughing, but since everything else was pretty straight forward, I guess she's saying something like "compliments on your fart" or "that was a great fart" or something like that.

Parade:

When Stan's mom is asking him to come home, Stan says "But this is my home", or "but I am home"

Airfield: nan da kore = "hey, what's that?" chinpoko gadaiskio = "chinpoko, we like them too."

btw, did anyone catch the spoof on Independence Day when Mr Garrison spreads the word on how to bring those sons of bitches down? That was sweet! About Independence Day: When it aired here in Norway, a rewiewer said it was such nationalistic dribble, it should be illegal to export it. I quite aggree, but I went to see it, and I thought it was real funny. How sad though that it wasn't a comedy:-)

By the way, someone mentioned they thought the kids voices had changed a bit in the halloween episode, and I must say picked up on that too. I thought Stan had a deeper voice in KGPGM, and in CHINPoKoMON I thought Cartman sounded really screwy, especially when he says "Hey get off him, hes not dead yet!" But hey, Matt & Trey, if your reading this, I don't care, It's just an observation on my part. If this is the cost of making as many episodes as possible in the least amount of time, I'm all for it. My rating for this episode is 9.9. The best one yet, by far. When Cartman started cursing Kitty in japanese, I couldnt even breathe. KICK ASS!

"J�rgen Ravn Hagen" wrote:

Oh damn, and I was just gonna write something about this too! Hehe- ya beat me to it :-) Quick little correction though: it was Sharon who asked Mr. Garrison to spread the word.

-Toni

"J�rgen Ravn Hagen" wrote:

For the most part, the translation in the classroom scene is correct, but I just wanted to make a few corrections. I have a good friend who's in Japan right now ( I sent him wavs from this episode for him to listen and translate for me), and although he said it was kinda hard to understand Cartman speaking Japanese, he doubts that Cartman is saying that Mr. Garrison is unfit to be a teacher. Rather, it sounds more like Cartman is saying that Mr. Garrison is lonely, in the sense that he's the only one not speaking Japanese.

In addition, "18" is spelled "juuhachi", not "tsuhachi", and "des" is spelled "desu". Don't ask me why- it just is *shrug*

And now I wanted to put up what the president of the toy company and his assistant were saying. Translations were done by my friend:

Scene after the american toy store owner leaves:

President Hirohito: dame. dame da..... naze kono chippu wa soto ni detanda? (Bad. it's bad. why has this chip gone outside/gone out?)

[Recall that they were discussing the malfunctioning toy.]

Assistant: wakarimasen sacho san. mondai desu nee. (I don't know boss/president. It's a problem, isn't it?)

Hirohito: sekinin sho nobe! (you're no longer in charge!)

Assistant: Hai. Hai sachoo san. (Yes. Yes Mr. president.)

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Kids marching scene:

owatta! beikoku!

(America! Is finished!)
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[My friend also gave me the proper "Americanized" spelling for the Japanese words so I thought I'd post these up too.]

Stan talking to his mom during the march:

Stan: kore wa watashi no uchi desu . (this is my home.)

kids: soo desu nee. (Yes it is.)

-Toni

Uh-uh. "Penis-monster." And it's two separate words.

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Just out of curiosity, how would "Oh my God, They killed Kenny!" "You Bastard!" be translated into Japanese?

Xenite Trekker "Death to spammers in our midst!"

Hey- yeah I would like to know too! I have to ask my friend one of these days.

I do know how to say "Suck my dick" in Japanese. Some of my stupid guy friends used to say it over and over to each other jokingly when I lived in the dorms, and when I would ask them what it meant, they wouldn't tell me, until recently. It's "Chinpo o namete kudasai". There's your Japanese lesson for today, children.

-Toni

Xenite Trekker wrote:

I just got an email saying I was wrong about the traslation of Chinpokemon. God (the biggest bitch of them all) forbid I should teach you the wrong stuff, so heres the correction. My translation "something that makes no sense" is infact incorrect. It was the closest I could find in the japanese dictionary, so I settled for that at the time. Since then, I have looked it up in an uncensored dictionary of japanese slang, and here is what I found:

Chinpoko = standard slang for penis. It turns out that the japanese language has about 300 words for penis. Everything from a penis that tilts to the left, through a penis escaping from boxer shorts, to the Yakuza's own word for penis. (Kick ass language, eh?) It also said that if you were to ask a typical japanese person, he would sware they don't have a single one, and if they did, they would never use it. This particuar word is the one all the others originate from, and this in turn originates from the word Chinhoko, meaning "life-giving sword". The mythical Inzanami (the male-who-invites) dipped his large chinhoko in the ocean and whisked it through the air. The spray flew, and the ancient islands of Japan was created. (beats the crap out of the whole Adam'n'Eve thing doesn't it? I mean goddamn!)

In article , "Raven" wrote:

Er, I suspect 'spraying ocean water off his penis' is another polite metaphor (and yes, it does totally kick the crap out of Adam and Eve).