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Someone in Japan needs to learn what the F word means.
Someone in Japan needs to learn what the F word means.
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JDog
BoM Nov '12 & May '13
That's really funny. I had to go to Italy for work like 6 times over 3 months and noticed that there was a lot of English being printed on shirts or billboard but it really did make mush sense... I was told that it's cool to have English on certain things like fashion, and it was the reason for doing it. I never seen anything like this though... lol.
njstone
BoM January 2010
Funny I was actually going to post this myself because these types of photos are passed around at the base all the time here. Signs and T-shits and such with English profanity OSS very common here.
In general, vulgarity is language-specific--like if I say "you cunt" to someone from the US that's bad, but it I say it to them in Italian they won't care, even if I tell them what it means.
The Japanese know what these words mean, but most don't realize how vulgar it truly is for 99% of Americans. They hear it all the time in music and movies, so they think that it's "crude" to us but not awful. Like maybe Grandma would give you a look for saying this, as oppose to Grandma having a heart attack as mine would.
In general, vulgarity is language-specific--like if I say "you cunt" to someone from the US that's bad, but it I say it to them in Italian they won't care, even if I tell them what it means.
The Japanese know what these words mean, but most don't realize how vulgar it truly is for 99% of Americans. They hear it all the time in music and movies, so they think that it's "crude" to us but not awful. Like maybe Grandma would give you a look for saying this, as oppose to Grandma having a heart attack as mine would.
