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Old 10-31-2005, 04:13 PM   #8
Izanagi
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ashke
It's sushi. Sake's the rice wine.

/insufferable know-it-all

Actually Jinx is correct!!!

Sake does mean salmon AND it means liquor (depends on the character used to write it).

They are homonyms (sort of). There are over 3000 possible syllabeles in English but only 101 syllabeles in Japanese. This means Japanese has a monster load of homonyms, it is a serious pain in the ass for those of us trying to learn the language.

Sake does NOT mean "rice wine" sake is just the Japanese word for general alcohol/liquor.

If you want to say "rice wine" you should say "Nihon-shu" (means literally "Japanese liquor")

That concludes today's Japanese lesson (my Japanese teacher would laugh her ass off if she knew "I" was trying to teach Japanese ).


OH YEAH.... Cool plane!!!
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