Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Lost in Translation

To all my Japanese and Japanese-studying friends please translate this into English:




ぴゅー

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

mine is as follows:

目(め)愛(あい)歯(は)ぴゅー?sounds like: May i help you?

this is what i decipher.

omi

Anonymous said...

I agree!

Cheeks

penfold tm said...

Hiya Li, I have no idea what this says, but Blogspot has *just* been unblocked by the Chinese government (for how long?) so I was catching up on your life. Still as gorgeous as ever I see! xx

Linea said...

Omi, Cheeks, yep, you got it!

My kids made this connection this week during our lesson. They even had gestures:
point to eye (me -pronounced 'may' in Japanese - is eye)
make heart shape with hands (ai in Japanese is love-pronounced 'I')
point to tooth (ha -tooth in Japanese)
indicate snot coming from nose (pyuu -sound of something coming out of something...)


Peter darling, charming as always - welcome!!! I've missed you.