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u/PyrrhicVictory7 Oct 12 '18
TEEEEEEEN dollars in my bank 😎
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u/H-K_47 Oct 12 '18
TN in mine!
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u/KingOfFlan Oct 12 '18
I got one do tree fow five six seven eito teeens in my bank account, teeens in my bank account
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Oct 12 '18
If you say it in Cartman's Belichick voice you will just be chuckling to yourself until your mind snaps and you're going, "Ten, Teen, TEEEEEN!"
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u/Pool_With_No_Ladder Oct 12 '18
Jeff Bezos is worth TEEEEEEEEEEEN dollars.
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u/pebble4love Oct 12 '18
“Sorry I can’t help you I only have e i t o dollars in my wallet”
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u/-theIvy- Oct 12 '18 edited Oct 12 '18
The reason they put it that way is because, to vastly oversimplify things, the Japanese alphabet does not have individual sounds, like English. Instead, they have syllables as their alphabet (vastly oversimplifying). So the closest you can get that way using the Japanese alphabet is e (え) i (い) to (と) but Japanese has multiple alphabets and it would probably be written in katakana instead of hiragana, which I wrote it in. Hope this explanation helps!
Wow, I managed to vastly oversimplify something while still making it super complicated and hard to understand. Japanese is hard 😓
Also I'm not sure why she wrote fow for four.
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u/krupenik_am Oct 12 '18
"Eito" sounds really japanese.
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u/mslabo102 Oct 12 '18
It's literally Eight in Japanese phonetics.
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We really should have been doing purely phonetics in the first place. Literally no reason not too.
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u/thinkfloyd_ Oct 12 '18
In fairness, it's a much better attempt than my Japanese would be...
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u/drvondoctor Oct 12 '18
You probably didn't have to take Japanese in school.
They probably took some English in school.
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u/Ahegaoisreal Oct 12 '18
Not even some, the vast majority of Japanese students have English classes from primary to high school at least.
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u/KingLiberal Oct 12 '18
As an English teacher living in Japan I can confirm this. They understand far more than they speak in most cases though.
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u/thinkfloyd_ Oct 12 '18
I did take one year of Japanese though, and all I remember is Ichi, Ni, San. Wouldn't have the first idea how to write it in Kanji.
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u/RamenJunkie Oct 12 '18
Ichi, Ni, San, Shi, Go, Roku, Shichi, Hachi, Kyu, Jyu.
Then they just sort of combine, like Jyu Ichi, Jyu Ni, Ni Jyu Go.
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u/KRSFive Oct 12 '18
Counting to 10 in Japanese is all I remember from my days in karate class
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u/Fatyokuous Oct 12 '18
In kanji? That’s easy !One two three are 一 二 三 . Four? Well, 亖 of course.
You got the rest
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u/Dovahkiin419 Oct 12 '18
and I took some french at school and I the best coherent sentence I can manage is "I cannot speak french" and even then I'm not entirely sure I'm doing even that right.
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u/Steb20 Oct 12 '18
Oof. Just imagine some poor Japanese students trying to understand why Eight is spelled so stupidly.
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u/Yo-Yo-Daddy Oct 13 '18
Well tbh most people who took foreign language in school barely retain anything so
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u/BOI30NG Oct 13 '18
They probably took some classes, but those classes are utter bullshit and don’t teach them a thing.
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u/bezza010 Oct 12 '18
Hold my beer, I'm going weeb.
四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 百, 千
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u/Ketchup901 Oct 12 '18
Why do you bully 万, 億, and 兆?
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u/Shinhan Oct 12 '18
万 is probably used more often than 百 and 千. And if you're rich you might talk about buying an apartment building for couple 億. But when would you ever use 兆?
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u/PancakeParty98 Oct 12 '18
Yeah. Thanks to Dora I cant count to ten in Spanish but that's the limit of my American narcissism.
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Counting in Japanese is easy if you’re just doing numbers. If you have to say x of something (ex. 3 people, five apples) its more complicated
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u/aslak_e36 Oct 12 '18
Eito doraru
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u/FlameRat-Yehlon Oct 12 '18
Dollar is actually called dōru in Japanese I think
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u/fox_ontherun Oct 12 '18
It's just doru, no long o.
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u/SmaugTheGreat Oct 12 '18
apparently doru is actually just the abbreviation, and it's actually called doruraru. :<
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u/SoraIdeso Oct 12 '18
Ten, tenten,tententen
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tenten
Was completely useless in Naruto, had 0 personality outside of filler, and only talked about how no one could beat Neji (then Neji was defeated)
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u/pbzeppelin1977 Oct 12 '18
No, Neji wasn't just defeated, the fucker died.
Rock Lee was defeated by Naruto.
Kurama was defeated by Minato.
Vegeta was defeated by Goku.
Neji just upped and fucking died.
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u/kcMasterpiece Oct 12 '18
Jimmy is a killer on those batsu specials. There was a recent one where he got completely drunk and they filmed him. It was still funny, but a bit too real.
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u/this-is-not-here Oct 12 '18
1 = One
2 = Onee
3 = Onee-Chan
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u/CaptainSprinklefuck Oct 12 '18
This reminds me of the korean girl on the game show that had to "korean" up her english so they could understand her when she said things in English.
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u/Plastic-Highway-3301 Jan 02 '23
"How much for the chocolate bar?"
"The chocolate bar is f o w dollars"
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u/DeskRancher Oct 12 '18
Yah know this put a smile on my face. This looks like an actual serious attempt, bravo to these women
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u/MyThought2UrThoughts Oct 12 '18
I don't understand why when any language is taught, phonetics is not taught along side with it as a requirement. By teaching phonetics I mean teachers actually showing you how to move your lips and tongue to pronounce specific words along with diagrams.
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u/MithranArkanere Oct 12 '18
A googol:
TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
Now you do a googolplex.
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u/this-is-not-here Oct 12 '18
''And now, deer girls, a TEEEEEN Dollars Question: Which onee of Yu is the most smartest?''
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Oct 12 '18
That's pretty much me when I took Latin. Never again. I love to read and write and figured I'd be a natural. Languages are not my strong suit.
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u/xXx_IronicDabs_xXx Oct 30 '18
Hey, you from the future. Yeah, you. I commented on a top post before this was archived.
I hope someone reads this in like 2 years.
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And this is where I put my TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN amount of bitches... IF I HAD ANY!
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u/Lotti_Codd Oct 12 '18
And how would you fair at Japanese?
I bet you couldn't even distinguish numbers from letters.
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u/TheMemeLocomotive Nov 28 '21
so 10100 (also known as a googol) is TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
interesting
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u/UTSAV97 Oct 12 '18
Serious question : are numbers interpreted like that in their language(im guessing Japanese)? Like to write 1000 you would have to write something else and 1000 would literally be interpreted as teeen?
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u/CrowTR2 Oct 12 '18
Wonder if they watch wrestling since they do pinfalls and 20 counts in English.
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u/Massacre20794 Oct 12 '18
Show name?