Dec
22
2009

Star Wars quotes… in Japanese!

So you want to know how to quote Star Wars in Japanese, do you?

I won’t pretend that I can come up with a useful or sane reason for such an endeavor, but follow me, 若きジェダィ (young Jedi), and I shall show you the ways of the フォース.

Star Wars quotes… in Japanese!
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These words are the latest additions to the Nihonshock Vocabulary Bank (updated daily... mostly). Want to see all the words?

夏バテ

なつばて [natsubate] – Something about the 38℃ days just makes you tired, you know. In Japanese, that fatigue is called 夏バテ.

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手品

てじな [tejina] – ‘Hand’ (手) plus ‘wares’ (品) gives us the Japanese word for sleight-of-hand. The word 奇術 [kijutsu] is typically used for…

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