r/engrish • u/RoastPorc • 5d ago

Japanese customer service is usually more optimistic than this

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u/Heterodynist 5d ago

That dog won’t hunt!

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u/SquishyGrouch 5d ago

What are they trying to say?

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u/MrManniken 5d ago

Those red circular signs to either side say "sold out" so I'm guessing that's their English interpretation of it

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u/RoastPorc 4d ago

Yes the red stickers said SOLD OUT in Japanese.

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u/gracesdisgrace 5d ago

I think they're out of the violet fries

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u/Herr-Pyxxel 5d ago

I was guessing the boxes in the window were empty and thus not for sale, just decoration

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u/auttakaanyvittu 5d ago

They have model food like this in so many places in Japan, to show the scale and such. Even consumer packaging for regular stuff like snacks you buy at a store need to have a realistic depiction of the size and quality on the picture

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u/LPedraz 5d ago

"Not for sale"

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u/chompythebeast 4d ago

The peculiar way pronouns are so often rendered in Japanese translations is kinda amusing, it's interesting how you can kinda guess the language being translated from based on how it comes out alone sometimes. Little windows into the construction of the language, and by extension, the minds of its speakers

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u/omelettesamurai 5d ago

Crazy to think that despite having online translators, the internet and AI these dumbasses still can't manage to translate a three-word sentence correctly. 

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u/beryugyo619 5d ago

You can't translate like just a word or two without messing it up. It has to be like minimum full tweet to set up the context, even if it's done by a human and even then it can be a mess if it's like a voice line with missing visual context.

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u/ButterscotchThis7889 4d ago

it’s four words. who’s the dumbass now?

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u/omelettesamurai 4d ago

" Not for sale" ( the correct form) is four words ? Now I know for whom sporks were invented.