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miz sparrow

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:02 pm

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Hi there.

I was thinking of buying these tees for my kids but don't know what the Japanese characters say. I hope they say "oh no" and "super cute" but... there's no telling.
Can anyone translate for me?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:25 pm

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you gotta be careful with that stuff.

I had this awesome shirt full of characters on it.

Well my friend (who's from China but speaks & can read in several other Asian languages) asked me about it. She said it was just a bunch of random words and didnt make sense.

I'm guessing the company just found some characters that looked cool and slaped them onto a shirt.

I havent really worn it since...and I dont think it'd fit me anymore anyway. I just dont want the joke to be on me!

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:38 pm

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For the first shirt, the two japanese characters, called katakana, are phonetically o - no. I'm guessing the third is an exclamation mark, but I can't tell.　But in Japanese, it means axe. So you've got two meanings there.

For the second shirt, it is phonetically: ha ro - ki te i whichiis pronounced haro keetehyee. In Japanese, it means　absolutely nothing, so I'm guessing the company tried to make it say happy kitty, and failed.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:48 pm

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Hahaah, my sister actually bought the "Super Cute" shirt for me. I like it. :3

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:56 pm

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That's awesome, thank you so much for your help.
Since it is a hello kitty shirt, I think your guess is very near the mark - trying to phonetically get hello (haro) kitty (keetehyee).

Thank you again for your awesome help.

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The first one could be saying o-ha which is a kittens way of saying 'mornin''

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haro keetehyee means Hello Kitty.

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