# I think I'm turning Nipponese, I think I'm turning Nipponese, I really think so. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 26, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157 "2001-08-26T03:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/21 "2001-08-27T00:32:03Z")
Compliment? Just because you can’t eat brain without getting it all over your shirt? (I’m kinda wondering what he meant as well) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/22 "2001-08-27T00:34:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hibernicus \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > > \*\*Hehe, I am going to go out of my way to say Nipponese now. > > > > If only to sound superior when people ask me why I am doing it. \*\* > > I don’t think that’s a good idea. The pronunciation “Nihon” is favoured now as “Nippon” is associated with 30s and 40s militarism.\*\* ::Nods:: If you want to be confusing and snooty, use Nihonjin (Japanese person) or Nihongo (The language) - the Japanese terms for ‘Japanese’. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/23 "2001-08-27T23:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > \*\*Compliment? Just because you can’t eat brain without getting it all over your shirt? > > (I’m kinda wondering what he meant as well) \*\* You two should be ashamed of yourselves. Not knowing a Pulp Fiction quote when you see one… [sub]Jules: Do you know _why_ they call it a Royale with cheese? Brett: B-b-because of the metric system? Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett!![/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/24 "2001-08-28T00:00:13Z")
**MMMMM-M !!!**. That is a TASTY burger !!! Mind if I have some of this shake?? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/25 "2001-08-28T02:01:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\*\*\*MMMMM-M !!!\*\*. That is a TASTY burger !!! Mind if I have some of this shake?? \*\* (DHR gives Cartooniverse a piercing glare, and the temperature of the room seems to drop several degrees) I don’t remember askin’ YOU a GOD-DAMNED THING. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/26 "2001-08-28T02:22:19Z")
I always fantasized about making a mosic video from that song in which you’d see me prancing around an office building in Tokyo singing the song and walking up to the Japanese office people and ‘turning’ them in their swivel office chairs. ---
**Author:** ![micco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@micco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micco)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157/27 "2001-08-28T02:30:20Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by China Guy \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Nippon is a Japanese word written in Chinese characters. It’s a word that the Japanese refer to Japan as, that’s why you see it occaisionally. Just like you would see Germany referred to as Deutscheland. > \*\* Which brings up the interesting point that the Internet top-level domain country codes are “DE” for Germany and “JP” for Japan. I won’t even draw a conclusion from that, but I find it interesting… I wish I had a good Pulp Fiction quote to share just so I’d fit in. I guess I’ll just go scrub my dad’s old watch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-think-im-turning-nipponese-i-really-think-so/78157.md?page=1)