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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

I love the fact that it's katakana, a script only used for foreign words, including anglizisms. So in order to make it look exotic, it's a Japanese script, but one that's used by Japanese for exotic words, which is fitting because it's actually an English words. So by making it double exotic, they reveal the fact that it's not exotic at all. Meta.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

SAUL OF COFFEE

[–] [email protected] 36 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Now that's just 尺卂匚丨丂ㄒ😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

尺卂匚丨丂ㄒ

Rule fly rapidly box on side line obstruction of breath T?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Reminds me of the game Contraband Police that used Cyrillic Соитяaьаид on the poster which reads "Soityaa'aid Police"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

I've become so averse to this kinda branding to the point where I'd just prefer them to use a translated version I can't read and some tiny English for anything important.

I'm not scared of kanji! If you're gonna lean into Asian languages for your marketing just use the damn languages properly!!!!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have no idea what any of that means, but I've recognised the word "coffee" on the cup and everything else became irrelevant. I want one.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The cup is using Japanese letters that look somewhat like English letters to spell "Soul of Coffee". The comment is how those letters are read in Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I've been learning Japanese for over two years now and English is not my native language. I had no idea what was going on.

I hate this

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ooooooh, that makes a lotta sense! I really should've abused my first ex's willingness to share her knowledge of Japanese...

Edit: thank you!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

All us former or present weebs that once learned Hiragana, Katakana, maybe 5 words and phrases, and basically nothing else, understand. (And the people actually speaking Japanese, too)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can't learn Japanese from anime alone

If you think you can then あなたはバカ

(Please do not reply to me in Japanese because I can't communicate it in fluently yet because I'm still learning it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You are stupid!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh, back then I totally also used.... some websites I found on google. And, uhm.... I think I remember printing out a torrented professional Japanese handbook, making a fancy folder to put it in and then.... never actually using it. :D

As you can see, teenage/young adult me was very realistic and very committed!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of probably the most pretentious thing I ever did: as a teenager in the late 90s, I tried to learn Russian in order to read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the original 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am committed to it right now but currently keeping an eye on a cyclone (hurricane for americans) to make sure it doesn't hit land

Hoping it'll just pass by

I do have a procrastination problem as well that I somehow need to get over

Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I'm aware of there being torrents for it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Good luck, dealing with procrastination is hard, but it definitely is doable!

Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I’m aware of there being torrents for it

Sadly, I genuinely don't remember, was around 2010 or so, so quite a while back.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No wonder why I couldn't read that, I was trying to read the Japanese because I'm learning it

It's not Japanese, they really should not do that because their going to confuse a lot of bilingual folk

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I ran into the same issue as you, but for me looking at the entire thing as opposed to individual kana helped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Imagina if terochichimomo was the actual name of coffee in Japanese (?). Pretty crazy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

no one who likes scripture would do this. no one who doens't like scripture should get money for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Based on context clues, they sounded out the name or sound of each characted used in "soul of coffee"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Yup, that's how the katakana/hiragana would be spoken aloud. Source: I only do these on Duolingo to keep up my streak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Coffee Domination

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Like a 5 year old reading cyrilic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Yep! Meaning that "Θώθ, what's this?" is a perfectly valid question to ask the God of knowledge.

Enjoy your curse of eldritch knowledge!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Do these starbucks like drink can be even thought as a "coffee"? I remember trying out Starbucks once and I have felt barely any energy increase

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Is Starbucks even coffe3???”

Yeah man, it’s made with coffee beans and it’s got caffeine in it. Some people don’t need a whole ton of caffeine to feel it.

If you want to feel something, try their cold brews

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Shhhhh, you cant go against the hivemind! Starbucks bad, ok?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Starbucks-like drink

picture of a latte on ice

???????????

I mean Starbucks coffee tastes like extra-burnt charcoal I'll give you that, but I don't think an iced latte is a far out drink or anything...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I dunno man, for me it’s as simple as “does it taste good?” “It does? Good.” And I like coffee flavor in sweets and desserts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's not about drinking a coffee. It's about coughing a drink.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I've seen this video already.