Disclaimer:
Alright, now I am fully aware of the difficulties of learning a second, third, forth or what-have-you language. I am trying to learn Japanese, and have been for 10 years now with nearly nothing to show for it. Nonetheless, I try and do frequently make mistakes, even publicly.
Alright, now that I am done justifying this awesome post to my self, here it goes. I recently joined the Japanese version of Facebook/myspace call Mixi. Almost immediately I have people sending me messages asking if I will be their foreign friend to help them learn English. I teach English on a daily basis to high school students and these are "dumb kids" in the Japanese eye, but I'm pretty sure their English would shit on this message I got.
Here is the message in English he wrote:
Hello.
I am 22 years old in a man in Japan.
I want to make friends with the foreigner
though it is not good at English.
Is if it is good, it a mail stripes cork?
In Japanese below:
こんにちは。
私は日本の男で22才です。英語は得意ではありませんが、外国人と友達になりたいです。
よかったらメールしませんか？
to the best of my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong please), this says:
I am a 22 year old Japanese man. I have no pride in my English, and I want to make a foreign friend. Is there a good time for us to message?
I don't know where the fuck mail stripes cork came from, but your ass better believe I'm starting a band called "The Mail Stripe Corks" I also keep picturing that this guy is the little frog from Space Balls waiting to jump out of someone.
While we are on the Batman tip, check out the evolution of the Joker! This is the new one for the next Batman.
