In Japanese, “niisan” and “nissan” sound different enough that they’re unlikely to be confused.
I was really surprised when I lived in Japan that my American sensibilities about what words sounded like other words were not the same as a Japanese person’s.
For example, I knew a girl named Junko (Pronounced like June ko), and when I asked my other Japanese friend if her name sounds like the Japanese word for poop, “unko”, he said it never occurred to him. They’re pronounced almost identically, even in Japanese, but the Japanese spelling is more like jyu-n-ko vs u-n-ko, and I think that slight “y” sound in “jyu” just makes things different somehow.
This kind of thing makes foreign speakers of languages very good at finding puns.
That’s really interesting. Maybe the pronunciation in that case is like the difference between a midwestern vs elsewhere pronunciation of “boat.” Very similar, but just different enough to tell a difference.
3923
I don’t understand, is this a reference to something?
San-kyu-ni-san
It appeared on a car numberplate in anime movie, thanking Nissan for their colla ration and sponsorship.
Thank you! I was still a little confused so I did a little googling based on your comment and came across this old reddit post (which linked to this wikipedia page). 39 is a common text term in Japanese because phonetically the numbers read as “San-kyu” (as you wrote) which is the term used for “thank you.”
My day is much improved by this information.
much more wholesome than my interpretation, that’s for sure
Aikawarazu no omae ni 39
I thought it might be like 177013, but I can’t even find the site that gets the correct response for that one.
I don’t wish to know that.
The rules are to keep things safe for work, so all I will say is to take what you’re looking for, put an “n” in front, and look for it on the .net
yeah, it gives 404 there
It appears the original was removed then. There’s a reupload, and also a copy site on .to that kept the number.
RIP internet cultural touchstone. Press F to pay respects
Incidentally, the .to version is faithful, as both net and to give the same non-car related sequential art for 3923.
Haven’t seen that number in a long while!
The Samurai Who Say Ni-san.
She must have a single digit credit score.
You’re trying to bag on her for have a low exploitability score? I don’t get it.
Its just a joke that American Nissan’s entire business model for the past 15 years was shit cars via loans to anyone with a pulse. Credit score of 3? Sure we got an Altima for you!
I think a very new CEO is changing that finally, IIRC.
