Something they don’t teach in school…
Apparently, the zodiac signs were not part of the vocabulary taught in my Japanese classes. I ran across this today: 牡牛座. Reaching for my trusty kanji dictionary, I could only find the meanings for each character separately, which is “male cow seat.” Not being satisfied with this, I decided to do a little sleuthing on google, where I got 301,000 results. Turns out, it is the Japanese for Taurus. I suppose a kanji dictionary will only take you so far…
October 15th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Try using it to explain the disappearance of 5 kilos of black tar to the Yakuza.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
That’s easy. “It was Nakasone! The Taurus!” Or, if you’d rather, “中曽根だ! 牡牛座です!”