Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Chestnut Whiskers



While I was reading through BoingBoing.net, I came across a website called "Adult Engrish", which documents the comical misfortunes of an English teacher's life in Japan. As far as I can tell, the website is not associated with Engrish.com.

The website's logo [seen above] has a hanko (traditional Japanese stamp, also known as in Chinese) with in red. One of my Japanese associates, Aaron, recognized the characters as "kuri-su, which might be a kind of crappy kanji for the name 'Chris'."

But if the characters are read individually:

= chestnut tree, chestnuts; surname
= must, have to, necessary; moment; whiskers


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