| Subject: W T F is a motor dolphin? |
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Dena
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Date Posted: 21:36:41 04/17/03 Thu
In the further adventures of "Dena, Yahoo Japan, and decades-out-of-print J-pop going for $2.50 because nobody in their right minds wants it anymore"...
It's on a CD by Horikawa Ryou (early '90's seiyuu -- Seiya Shun, FSS Ladios, DBZ Vegeta et al) called "Romantic Hour." One of the songs on there was called "Kimi wa suteki na motor dolphin."
I wish I was kidding.
I spent 20 minutes going syllable by syllable through the katakana, convinced that somehow, somewhere, I was reading something wrong and it wasn't really sounding out mo-ta- dorufin. Nope. I opened up the CD booklet and it was helpfully written out in the Roman alphabet: motor dolphin.
Going through Dena's head at this point: "@_@ what in the hell is a motor dolphin...?"
I mean, I can even kind of see "Banana Fish" (that manga). There are goldfish, and blowfish, and banana is sometimes used for colors, it could be a banana-colored fish. Or shaped like a banana. Fish and bananas are kind of the same shape, and both edible. It's not a construction anyone who spoke English would ever have put together, but it could be construed as making some kind of sense.
MOTOR DOLPHIN...?!
(shaking head in bemusement)
I poked various people who might have clues, including my substitute Japanese professor, who looked like he didn't believe what his ears were telling him, which wouldn't surprise me because my eyes didn't believe it either, and nobody's got an explanation so far. Has anyone here got a clue...?
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