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Title: When Words Go Wrong
Post by: Natasha on December 26, 2007, 06:04:07 PM
When Words Go Wrong

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/503307/when_words_go_wrong.html
By Kephri Ra
12/26/2007

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Title: Re: When Words Go Wrong
Post by: Purple Pimp on December 26, 2007, 06:12:17 PM
Lol, that's pretty cute.  It reminds me of a banner I saw during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Tokyo last year that read:

COME ON YOU
IRISH BOYS

I could not even begin to explain how the spacing makes the difference in this case, but it does.  In a language like Japanese that doesn't use spacing between characters, it must be a very odd concept.