| Subject: Re: W T F is a motor dolphin? |
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Chichiri
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Date Posted: 08:42:04 04/18/03 Fri
In reply to:
Dena
's message, "W T F is a motor dolphin?" on 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...?
It's called "we don't care what it means and just looked up random English words which sound cool together." XD
Chichiri "Minna wa suteki na mo-ta- marmalade boy na no da!"
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