{"id":300,"date":"2006-04-06T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=300"},"modified":"2006-04-06T20:32:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T01:32:46","slug":"todashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Todashi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an old SNL sketch that has Chris Farley playing an American tourist who somehow ends up on a Japanese game show. (If you’ve never seen it, you can get it here<\/a>.) He doesn’t speak the language, know the rules, or even understand what’s going on, and the skit gets pretty crazy as he’s introduced to the strange and painful world of game shows in Japan. It’s quite funny.<\/p>\n

The skit has everyone else speaking faux-Japanese. It sounds enough like the real thing to make the skit work for me, but even to my untrained ear I can easily tell they are talking gibberish. <\/p>\n

This got me to thinking, though. Do Japanese entertainers ever do this with English? If so, what would it sound like? That would be facinating to hear. They might not have to though, since English speakers in Tokyo are easier to find than Japanese speakers in Hollywood or New York. In the Anime I’ve seen up until now, English has always been real English and not<\/em> gibberish. Still, a low-budget show (comedy show in particular) might go this route, and it would be facinating to hear how English sounds to non-English speakers.<\/p>\n

Steven Den Beste<\/a> had a post at one point (which I’m sure is still there, but I can’t find it now) which showed the scoreboard in Angelic Layer<\/a>. (Update: Right here<\/a>! Thanks Steven.) The display was in properly spelled English, but none if it meant anything. It was just just some general English words arranged to look like a meaningful display at first glance. It worked: I never noticed it was nonsense until he pointed it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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