retep Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Can anyone translate this, http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/sretep/translate.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaliRichard Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 No, but I would say it's more Chinese than Japanese looking at it if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 It says "ALDI". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Dome Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes, it says "Aldi Tinned Tomatoes, was 39p now only 29p, buy 4 get one free, pay for 10 get 4 at half price, or buy 20 get 6 free, subject to availabilty, one 2 tins per customer. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retep Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Yes, it says "Aldi Tinned Tomatoes, was 39p now only 29p, buy 4 get one free, pay for 10 get 4 at half price, or buy 20 get 6 free, subject to availabilty, one 2 tins per customer. " Nay lad, thats double Dutch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeWithoutFear Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Can anyone translate this, http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/sretep/translate.jpg It's Japanese. It's a long time since I studied and the last character is hard to make out, but the first bit is pronounced "toki". The last character looks like it might be 'me'....? If so then the word would be "tokime", pronounced toe-kee-mee. But I dunno what that means, or if it means anything. So I guess I wasn't much use! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanl Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 I forwarded this to my son who lives in Japan and this is his reply.... That thing on the forum is Japanese. It says 'Tokiwa'. It's written in an alphabet called hiragana, which unlike Chinese characters (called kanji) don't have a meaning. They are purely phonetic…と (to), き (ki), わ (wa). It might be a place name?… Maybe the object was a souvenir from a place called Tokiwa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeWithoutFear Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Just found a hiragana chart if the OP wants to have a go themselves : http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bRy8kmO7-vI/TFbkgd2828I/AAAAAAAAAKY/hsQHqx7t8Po/s1600/Hiragana+001.png Not convinced either way on what that last character is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muldoon Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 It says "Lazy git" in Hirigawatakanobijihad its a virtually unknown dialect fron Darnall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 It's Japanese. It's a long time since I studied and the last character is hard to make out, but the first bit is pronounced "toki". The last character looks like it might be 'me'....? If so then the word would be "tokime", pronounced toe-kee-mee. But I dunno what that means, or if it means anything. So I guess I wasn't much use! Don't tokime make petrol pumps..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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