Wednesday, January 28, 2009

道案内

Kids learn how to give directions starting in third grade, at least when I am teaching. It's funny because between second and third grade, there is some kind of magical change in their brains that lets them understand the difference between right and left. If you try to teach younger kids how to do it, they won't get it because they can't even do it in Japanese. I wonder what's up with that.

僕:じゃ,今日どうしようかな?
先生:えっ、分からん! 悪いけど、任せるといいなとおもったんだ。
俺:ああ、大丈夫。道案内やったことある?
教師:ないね。
私:まあ、そうやってええがね?
講師:はい、御願いします!ずーずー弁も上手だね!
わし:いや、そんなことない。まんだチョンボシしかできんガヤ。
先生:わけしなにおじいさんやにはなすな。
おら:いつも習っちょうね、横田で。
講師:そげ、そげ。一人でいい? けわしけん。
僕:ええ、もちろん。じゃ、えくぞ!

This ridiculous conversation is fictional but approximated with extra Izumo dialect added. I'll be amazed if people can understand it.

2 comments:

j1048576l said...

engrish for your amusement, courtesy of teh intertransors:

Me: The kana which today how will be done?
Teacher: Huh, you do not understand! However it is bad, you thought that it should have left it is, it is.
We: Well, all right. The guidepost you have done?
Teacher: Don't you think? it is not.
Me: Well, so doing, don't you think? it can be able?
Lecturer: It is, asks! Don't you think? the [zu] - the [zu] - we are skillful also the valve!
Me: Well, there is no such a thing. The [ma] it is only [chiyonboshi] which is it is it to be possible [gaya].
Teacher: Reason it does and no uncle is and the resin releases.
And others: Always, don't you think? the learning [tsu] [chi] [yo] [u], with Yokota.
Lecturer: [so] [ge], [so] [ge]. It is possible to be one person? Steeply the [ke] it is.
Me: Obtaining to obtain, of course. You obtain, the [ku]!

Hot Topologic said...

Now it is the beginning of a fantastic story!

All your base are belong to us!