joewari da joever

  • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Me, who knows no Japanese, wants to know what it says! Let me into the meme! :let-me-in:

    • PointAndClique [they/them]
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      edit-2
      10 months ago

      ジョー jyoo is Joe
      おわり owari means 'the end'
      da is a copula basically functioning like 'is'
      The pun runs the o of 'Joe' into the o of owari to get jyoowari da or 'It's Joever'

      • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Thanks! It even works when you drop the kanji and hiragana into google translate.

        • PointAndClique [they/them]
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          10 months ago

          Coolio! Worth pointing out maybe, there's no kanji in the sentence. The 'Joe' is written in katakana, which is the more angular text and used kinda like italics (for foreign words, emphasis and onomatopoeia). The rest is hiragana.