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Posted on February 7, 2019September 9, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’ve been thinking some about Ariana Grande’s misadventures with tattoos and the Japanese language, and having learned a little more about the precise mistake she made, I have a little more to say, for what it’s worth. The Japanese approach to language is maddening in some ways. Its compound words,

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Ariana Grande’s BBQ Grill has Seven Rings

Posted on February 1, 2019September 9, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’m sure, by now, if you pay attention to anything Japanese or related, you’ve found that a major US pop star with lots of beauty and very little talent has decided to get a tattoo with Japanese kanji. It is supposed to say “seven rings”, which I assume is the

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