Comments on: Japanese, the Borrower Language Part 2: Twisting Words http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Mami http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/comment-page-1/#comment-158798 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:44:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=33442#comment-158798 It’s actually ‘Hotchkiss’ not ‘Hotchickkiss’. It’s said that it named after Benjamin B Hotchkiss who invented a machine-gun. Sorry I spelt it funnier:P Japanese people imagined machine-guns when they used staplers for the first time because you can staple papers a lot like a machine-gun.

]]> By: Mami http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/comment-page-1/#comment-158797 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:40:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=33442#comment-158797 >But no one tried to call ファイファイ for “Final Fantasy”.

We call Final Fantasy ‘ファイファン’!!!!

]]> By: alexandeu http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/comment-page-1/#comment-158542 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:26:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=33442#comment-158542 Oh wow, that’s really interesting, how did people decided to call staplers that?
What’s the correlation? A hot chick’s kiss sticks? (That’s kind of a mouthful, lol)

]]> By: Chris M. http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/comment-page-1/#comment-157847 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:29:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=33442#comment-157847 However, I have wondered what Kyocera meant and now I know. These company nicknames are really interesting/surprising. Tokyo Shibaura Denki…that’s cool.

]]> By: Chris M. http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/comment-page-1/#comment-157841 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:47:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=33442#comment-157841 I once showed a video to my English class of business men where this woman says, “I enjoy biking,” and they all started cracking up.

]]> By: Chris M. http://www.tofugu.com/2013/08/08/japanese-the-borrower-language-part-2-twisting-words/comment-page-1/#comment-157842 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:47:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=33442#comment-157842 post/reply fail

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