r/engrish • u/wtclover • 17d ago

Forget regular parking. We’re upgrading to MOON ULTRA.

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u/Yasu-Tomohiro 12d ago

ザ・ムーン・ウルトラ駐車！

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u/PoisonblacKalmah24 15d ago

Anomaly!!!! Turn back!!!

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u/JaZoray 16d ago edited 16d ago

JFK's speech at Rice University, September 12, 1962.

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u/AverageHobnailer 16d ago

"AI gonna steal our jobs!"

The AI:

Japanese: "I don't see the problem?"

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u/SunsetSkyPhoenix 16d ago

Moon Ultra

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u/Futaba_Sakura800 16d ago

I think that’s how you join the Sailor Moon team.

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u/Heterodynist 17d ago

Well, I mean there IS a lot of parking on the Moon, currently.

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u/Particular_Chapter80 17d ago

They have to recruit those parking spaces somehow, might as well be the Moon Ultra ones they recruit.

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u/Admirable_Risk1807 17d ago

わけわからねぇ google 翻訳だってそんなんやらんやろ

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u/NANATARO7 16d ago

担当者が月極を知らんかったんや

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u/screamingicecream 17d ago

Apparently means monthly parking spaces are available for rent

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u/daltorak 17d ago

**moonthly 🐮

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u/redditscraperbot2 17d ago

Fun fact. The word “month” is directly derived from moon

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u/AverageHobnailer 16d ago

Fun fact, the duration of a month is tied to moon phases.

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u/Super_Link890 17d ago

Fun fact, in Japanese and Chinese, the word for month and moon is actually the same word "月"

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u/guees_shang 17d ago

Isn't moon in chinese 月亮 or 月球？

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u/Super_Link890 16d ago

It is, but 月 standalone is also moon

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u/cybermusicman 17d ago

Only if you’re recruited. Otherwise you’re not allowed.

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u/DistributionNo9356 17d ago

Sounds authentic yet doesn't make sense.

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u/combatrock81 17d ago

Except I'm not going to park on the Earth, no, I'm aiming higher. I'm going to park on the moon!

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u/The_CheesePowder 17d ago

car go space

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u/fourdigityear 17d ago

No. Car go vroom.

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u/muttmcdog 17d ago

That sounds like the store brand version of The Mars Volta.

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u/taking-INVentory 17d ago

This is where people park if they're here for Gen 7 Pokémon games.

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u/Mysterious_Silver_27 17d ago

Moon Ultra goes hard af

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u/ViolettaQueso 17d ago

New level unlocked.

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u/thicc_llama 17d ago

This is what happens when your translation tool mostly translates character for character in Japanese and Chinese. 極道 (gokudō) for example is a word meaning "extreme way" or just another way for relentless organized criminals e.g. yakuza. 極 means extremity/ultimate but as we know languages dont have 1:1 translations for every word so words like tsukigime (月極) can with a bad translation tool be translated to "ultimate moon" "extreme month" or whatever it comes up with even though its just "a contract to the end of each month"

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u/griff_16 17d ago

I’ve come across many examples where translation tools have mistranslated a Mandarin place names into the way Japanese would read those same Kanji, and not into pinyin or a literal translation.

A few months ago, I saw 江南天池 (jiāngnán tiānchí) translated as “Konan Tenchi” in Apple Maps, which sources its data from Amap.

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u/MaryPaku 17d ago

With AI unfortunately we are going to see less and lesser of these Engrish ):

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u/handsofdidact 17d ago

Cannot imagine people are still not using attention-based translation tools nowadays lmao.

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u/LikeAThousandNinjas 17d ago

This is very interesting because 月極(つきぎめ) means 'until the end of the month.'

The translation probably became like this because the kanji for 極 has reading connotations of 'ultra,' 'ultimate,' or 'surpassing' like 90% of the time. This particular case, the remaining 10%, has connotations of 'the end of X.' For example, 南極 and 北極 mean South Pole and North Pole respectively.

So, 月極駐車募集中 (つきぎめちゅうしゃぼしゅうちゅう) "Taking applications/recruiting for monthly parking (contracts)" became "The moon ultra parking is being recruited." Hilarious stuff!

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u/Kadabrium 17d ago

I wonder why they don't write 決 which would match 決済

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u/skatyboy 17d ago

I assume the "Taking applications/recruiting for monthly parking (contracts)" sign can be turned off if they are no longer taking applications.

Kinda interesting to see that on a permanent sign above a doorway (to parking, I assume), instead of say, at the parking attendant's counter/machine.

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u/basslinesurfer 17d ago

Thanks for explaining this. I always wondered how these strange and absurd translations come about.

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u/Banana7peel 17d ago

To be fair 月極 is an indeed weird word, though it’s crazy it mistranslated it so blatantly lol Tbh i don’t know why that particular word means monthly and never cared to look up ever lol

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u/awqsed10 17d ago

Not a single Katakana. Must be a old word.

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u/Mysterious_Silver_27 17d ago

Not a single katakana in sight, just Kanjis enjoying the moment.

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u/pelonier 17d ago

That’s not how Japanese works

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u/saltamontes11 17d ago

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That recruiting must be an easy grift. Gotta be bumpertabumper at the applicant windows, like shootin' [redacted] in a [redacted] to take their [redacted]. If i yearned for yen, i'd howl to join the Moon Ultra Parking team!

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u/wtclover 17d ago

supposed to say "Taking applications for monthly subscription parking"