# asian translation help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-translation-help/381782>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-translation-help/381782 "2006-11-25T21:27:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-translation-help/381782/21 "2006-11-26T19:11:21Z")

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My guess is some kid copied this out of a japanese comic book, probably with mistakes.

Hence the difficulty of translation and the strange choice of subject matter. (i.e. wanting to take a nap.)

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-translation-help/381782/22 "2006-11-27T00:35:22Z")

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I ran this by my wife who is officially a Japanese person and she says it is officially gibberish. In fact she struggled just as much as we did in figuring out which kana were intended.

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