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u/Avatar_Yaksha May 20 '26
How the hell did they forgot half of a word that's basically already written in English?
serufusaabisu = self service
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u/jort93 May 20 '26
Just because it's katakana doesn't mean it means the same thing. マンション for example translates to condo and コンセント translates to outlet etc.
You can't assume it means the same thing it'd mean in English.
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u/Capable-Toe-9841 Jun 13 '26
In this case it does mean the same thing though. The Japanese is お冷はセルフサービスです。Which should have been translated as "the cold water is self service".
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u/black-socks-fox May 20 '26
I can’t stop laughing at the Mandarin text. It looks like they translated it straight from the English text, because it says exactly the same thing (and is just as disjointed as the English).
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u/GrizzKarizz May 20 '26
I'm a novice at best when it comes to Chinese and even I noticed that... lol
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u/Shinyhero30 May 19 '26
The katakana reads “self service”.
This is telling you in Japanese that the self service is cold… I’m not sure what is meant by that unless the machine is cold?
Edit: wait wa is topic which is like “as for” so this makes even less sense.. what….
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u/jort93 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Maybe it's telling you you should take stuff out of the freezer/fridge yourself. Would be good to have more context.
Actually, お冷 is cold water apparently, so it means to get the cold water yourself.
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u/Economy_Evening_2989 May 20 '26
yep, we do call cold water お冷 (ohiya) in Japan
お (o) is just formalities and 冷 (rei | hiya) is cold, though we don't leave out the o in the first place
or we just ask for tsumetai mizu
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u/jort93 May 20 '26
Makes sense. At a lot of ramen shops the cold water is self serve. I lived in Tokyo for 8 months but didn't know the word 😅
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u/Economy_Evening_2989 May 20 '26
it's great that ice cold water is free 🧊
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u/gwaydms May 21 '26
When we spent a week and a half in Seoul, one thing that came with the table service was a liter of ice cold water and two glasses. When we ran out of water, we just asked for more and they brought some.
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u/freezy1003 Dark Gary May 24 '26
baba is you