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F-Word Shirt Shirt on Japanese TV

January 20th, 2008 by James

Somebody made a very F’ing strange choice of wardrobe on yesterday evening’s episode of Tabegoro Manma:

pretty-shirt

[hat tip to Ken Y-N]



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14 Comments »

Comment by morningstar
2008-01-20 10:47:20

The show producers and writer of the comedy program are not aware of what the f-word mean. Sometimes Japanese make fun of them self in a strange way.

Comment by Alex
2008-01-20 18:45:13

I think this is only half-correct. I think they just don’t understand the weight of negativity that the word carries. They can’t “feel” the word. It’s a novelty.

Comment by darg
2008-01-20 22:52:42

yeah- exactly right.

Like I know curse words in French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc., but I don’t really know those languages so they’re just funny to me. Even words in Japanese don’t seem so harsh and I’m fluent (yes, there is bad language in Japanese btw). It’s not that you don’t understand them, when it’s not your language they just don’t carry the same weight.

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Comment by doinkies
2008-01-21 04:13:28

Yeah. I don’t think that many Japanese know that the f-word in English is considered so vulgar that it is bleeped on the TV channels of English-speaking countries.

 
 
 
 
Comment by yop
2008-01-20 10:48:52

Yes and ?

 
Comment by waista
2008-01-20 12:43:35

like

 
Comment by Neil Duckett
2008-01-20 14:33:01

Thats absolutely brilliant!!!

 
Comment by NPC
2008-01-21 05:59:22

I want that shirt. :D

 
Comment by Ryan
2008-01-21 07:44:59

what does the last word say? Dirty?

 
Comment by taiko666
2008-01-21 12:06:05

Amazing… up there with the ‘I’m gonna waste u m*****f****r’ gangster rap that a lot of clothes shops seem to have blaring out in Japan. And yet, I once saw a subtitled English language programme in which the word ‘bitch’ was continually bleeped out… the programme was about dog training.

 
Comment by Sean
2008-01-21 13:39:36

Only in japan.

 
Comment by Klauscore
2008-01-21 15:50:11

I watched “Alien vs. Predator” yesterday on Japanese TV in English, and it was quite pleasant that “bad” words were not bleeped out.

I like the guy’s shirt!

 
Comment by smoother
2008-01-21 16:08:15

Whoa! That’s crazy. I tend to hear swear words now and then on TV too.

 
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