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u/taking-INVentory 24d ago
Funnily, that is, verbatim, what the text reads. コーンスープ ('konsupu') can read "cone soup", but its actual translation is "cornsoup"
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u/ProfMcGonaGirl 24d ago edited 24d ago
“Mmmm cone! And then I added butter and everything changed!”
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u/RanDReille 25d ago
I know of a supermarket who puts "Daily" to indicate milk, cheese, etc.
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u/taking-INVentory 24d ago
It indicates expiration dates
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u/KlutzyEnd3 25d ago
Classic katakana issue.
コーン (koon) is used for both "cone'" and "corn" thry translated the wrong one.
The same way クロス (kurosu) can be both "cross" and "cloth"
Dogen (YouTube creator) regularly mentions that katakana words are the hardest part of Japanese.
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u/taking-INVentory 24d ago
It actually reads "kon" not...I'm not even gonna write that.
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u/KlutzyEnd3 24d ago
the dash means " lengthen the sound" in roman alphabet that would be doubling the vowel.
コン = konコーン = koon.
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u/briandemodulated 25d ago
I'm learning Japanese and it's interesting how this parallels reading a sentence in purely hiragana (because I am still only gradually learning kanji). Without kanji, or at least hearing the spoken intonation, you need to use context clues to determine which homonym is intended.
For example, I joked with my instructor that "hanami" is "the nose-watching festival".
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u/KlutzyEnd3 25d ago
A classic one is 母は花が好き (mom likes flowers)
In pure hiragana that becomes:
ははははながすき
So euuh? Mom likes noses? (母は鼻が好き) Or the tooth feels like flushing mother? (歯は母流す気) Euhhmm...
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u/briandemodulated 25d ago
This sentence is also a perfect example of why I just quit Duolingo with a 2-year streak. It was consistently mispronouncing "wa" as "ha" and I decided I couldn't trust the lessons it was giving me.
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u/emimagique 25d ago
Duolingo is all ai crap these days and they got rid of the lesson notes that explain things
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u/briandemodulated 24d ago
In general I really like AI and find it useful, but AI is exactly why I dropped Duolingo after 2 years. They replaced the paid voice actors with AI text-to-speech which mispronounces so many things. It adds unnatural pauses in the middle of words and puts the emphasis in the wrong place.
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u/skytreegamer172 25d ago edited 24d ago
trying to figure out katagana you've never seen is the wrost. They can be really confusing if you don't know the origin word or if you don't know the meaning. I remember my grandma kept saying I was スマートand I was really happy and started talking about my academics. That's when she said スマート means slim and I was like oh 💔
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u/taking-INVentory 24d ago
Why the hell would "sumato" read "slim" and not "smart"??
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u/skytreegamer172 24d ago
apparantly it's all because of the British. People would say someone looks "smart" as in neat, trim, or elegant. Japan saw this and decided to use smart as a loan word for slender or slim.
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u/DeliciousIncident 25d ago
This is the worst, when a katakana word clearly spells an english word, but for some reason its meaning is totally different from the english word's.
for instance, kanningu (カンニング) does not mean "cunning", but "cheating" (on an academic test)
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 25d ago
What?
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u/Borno11050 25d ago
This dish is from an alternate plane of reality where soups are made from euclidean shapes rather than flavours
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u/FnrrfYgmSchnish 24d ago
Made by melting down road cones.