joewari da joever

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]M
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    5 months ago

    sent it to my friend who's minoring in japanese

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    it's so joewari da for me joever

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      5 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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        5 months ago

        ジョー jyoo is Joe
        おわり owari means 'the end'
        だ 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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          5 months ago

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

          • PointAndClique [they/them]
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            5 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.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Like a Dwarf Fortress dwarf having a strange mood. Sometimes I wake up and my nose is bleeding and I've invented a new kind of Garfield. It happens.