It’s time for your lesson in Japanese words you already know, because they have the same pronunciations as English words. Bose makes excellent speakers, but in Japan the term bozu means a bald-headed Buddhist priest, and by extension, anyone who is bald. The word for “geography” is chiri, which sounds like the country of Chile, guaranteeing lots of bad puns about the geography of that country. (Japanese also believe that all spicy food originates from Chile.) Japanese know the story of the Three Little Pigs, but the part about “not by the hair of my chinny chin chin” is mysteriously absent here, since chin chin (pronounced with long vowels, like “cheen cheen”) is a somewhat cute-sounding word for a penis. Here are some other Japanese words you already know.Cheek show! — Damn! (chikusho)
Psycho! — That’s great! (saiko, pronounced “sai-koh”)
Bimbo — Poor, no money (binbo)
Hen — strange (it’s the hen in hentai)
She knew — [I] am going to die (shinu)
Show you — soy sauce (shoyu)
Oh, you — hot water (o-yu)
Ohio — Good morning (ohayo)
Never never — sticky (like natto, fermented soybeans, pronounced neba neba)
“E” — good, ok, sometimes “no thanks” (ii)
Ski — [I] like [that] (suki)
Haha — one’s own mother (will always incite giggling in Japanese 101 class)
Sup, dawg, I heard you like the geography of Chile.
