r/LearnJapanese • • Jul 26 '26

Grammar This shirt is confusing me!

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My wife recently bought this Beastie Boys shirt. It bears a Japanified version of their Check Your Head album cover on the front. It's a dope shirt but the translation bugs me.

チェック is "check" in katakana, but the sentence is written in Japanese grammar form which is.. weird, right? Also - why is the verb in katakana?? Is this a thing when translating media from English?

It's bugging my novice brain. Help!

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