I figured a meme for folks learning Japanese could be fun :)

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    5 months ago

    I don’t know a lick of japanese. I assume you translated the symbols they abused for english letters?

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      5 months ago

      They’re kana characters which represent syllables. So ら is “ra” when romanized, ロ is “ro” and so on.

      Actually took me quite a while to figure out it’s supposed to say “Soul of coffee”, but it’s probably easier to read the less you know about Japanese characters.

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          13 days ago

          Same. I thought someone from marketing was working overtime. I really like the terochichimomo, ngl.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah as someone who just started reading Japanese, reading “soul of coffee” was easy. But I don’t even know all of these characters yet, I’m most of the way through hiragana, but haven’t started any other character sets

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    5 months ago

    asians 🤝 nordics
    stop using our writing willy nilly because it looks cool, it’s physically painful to read it

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    13 days ago

    I’ve been learning Japanese for 20 years or something and cannot see these characters as English. This is what they gave to The Borg to force them to cut their shit no?

    • Cris@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Seems like a safe bet

      I don’t know enough about coffee to know what espresso on top of cream would be. I just assume it’s some kind of iced latte