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[QUOTE="Hornbein, post: 6882268, member: 489043"] The Japanese written language is very ambiguous. A kanji character can stand for a dozen completely different words. I've noticed that the Google translator has a difficult time with it. It's possible to write a sentence that corresponds to hundreds of differing spoken sentences. Then you can throw puns into the mix. This is a national pastime. In thge nation of Japan the study of written English is more or less required in high school. In Japanese popular music it is very common to include English phrases in the lyrics. When they do this the practice of punning doesn't go away. There is a popular song called My Lover Is A Stapler. This makes no sense until you find out that the Japanese word for a stapler is Hotchkiss, after the first brand of stapler to catch on in Japan. Then you make a pun. My lover has a hot kiss. A bilingual pun! Though a real Japanese speaker might expose me as full of beans. I do know that a band named Bandmaid has a album called Maid in Japan, no doubt about those puns. [ATTACH type="full"]326132[/ATTACH] Many people think they are the best hard rock band in the world today. They are embarrassed by this first album and have suppressed it. I have read that the world's most ambiguous language is Beijingese, in which a single word can have 253 meanings. Or something like that. [/QUOTE]
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