Drunken Elephant (and Kanji lesson)

[jeep]

Given my avatar, I felt the need to post this.

Drunken Elephant

-JEEP

[Lystrodom]

Liquor is bad. For elephants. Only for elephants.


Anyways, yeah. People should not give elephants beer. Just common sense.


And, what does your avatar have to do with drunken elephants?

[Porro]

That's the translation.

And the japanese script translation of 'jeep' looks like 2 elephants fighting outside a pub

[jeep]

What is the japanese script translation for jeep?

-JEEP

[SaberKitty]

if this is what you mean (katakana), then I don't see it.

"gi - pu"

i = ee
- = vowel extension
u = oo



how about in hiragana this time? I still don't see it.
"gi pu"

-SK

[jeep]

SK, do you study Japanese?

-JEEP

[SaberKitty]

I could have sworn we already had this conversation...(i bet it was in backwards mafia-it lasted forever)
yeah, since 1st grade (making this my eleventh year)

here's a random tidbit of information about japanese schools that we learned today in class: in japanses schools they neither have heat or AC. recently, the gov passed a law which would put both into public schools. the people protestedand voted it down, saying that it would be good for them to be without it.
so, in conclusion: people who live in japan and vote are really sucky. the end

-SK

[Antrax]

Nah, she's guessing =P
Antrax

[jeep]

She could have studied Japanese in the past and no longer be studying...

I don't remember us actually discussing this... but we might have. So why did you decide to start studying Japanese in 1st grade? (as opposed to any other language...)

-JEEP

[SaberKitty]

it was the only language they offered... other elementary schools had language-immersion programs too. but, only one language per school. i think they had french, spanish, german, and japanese in all.
oh, and w00t, my fancy-schmancy language skills are finally coming in handy

-SK

[jeep]

So when you break down the kanji for "drunk", it has the symbol for alcoholic drink (sans the three little 'whiskers' on the left) + 9 + 10. So does that mean 90 drinks or 19 drinks?

-JEEP

[SaberKitty]

actually, the three little whiskers are the radical for water.
the radical for this kanji is indeed that for liquor or sake (pronounced sakezukuri or torihen). the kanji in your avatar, when an u(and pronounced "you"<- plain/dictionary form or "yoimasu"<--polite form) is added, becomes the verb for "to get drunk", "to feel sick", or

"to be poisoned"

jeep, what have you been doing to that poor little elephant?

-SK

[jeep]

This is what I was told the full symbol for alcoholic drink was... The 'drunk' symbol has it, without the three whiskers on the left. That's what I meant... are you saying that the drink symbol has the symbol for water? I thought the symbol for water was more like a K with a mirror along the back of the k...

(heh, listen to me talking about Kanji with my

extensive

knowledge of 50 symbols or so... all of which I learned through games)

-JEEP

[Quailman]

I thought you copied those symbols off the

Drunken Elephant

Yu-Gi-Oh card.

[SaberKitty]

those thre "whiskers" are the radical for water.

while the radical often differs form the appearance of the kanji, it bears resemblance to the kanji's origin.
on second thought, th e three "whiskers" might be from "river" rather than "water". i'll have to look it up to be cartain. but i could have sworn that it came from "water"

-SK

[jeep]

Cool!

Quailman, there is a Drunken Elephant Yu-Gi-Oh card? What's it's rarity? I might need to get one.

-JEEP