• @[email protected]
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    42 hours ago

    Reminds me of the game Contraband Police that used Cyrillic Соитяaьаид on the poster which reads “Soityaa’aid Police”

  • @Soleos
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    245 hours ago

    Now that’s just 尺卂匚丨丂ㄒ😅

    • @ZILtoid1991OP
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      尺卂匚丨丂ㄒ

      Rule fly rapidly box on side line obstruction of breath T?

  • @[email protected]
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    125 hours ago

    I’ve become so averse to this kinda branding to the point where I’d just prefer them to use a translated version I can’t read and some tiny English for anything important.

    I’m not scared of kanji! If you’re gonna lean into Asian languages for your marketing just use the damn languages properly!!!

    • @[email protected]
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      54 hours ago

      Based on context clues, they sounded out the name or sound of each characted used in “soul of coffee”

      • @BlindFrog
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        23 hours ago

        Yup, that’s how the katakana/hiragana would be spoken aloud. Source: I only do these on Duolingo to keep up my streak

  • @[email protected]
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    118 hours ago

    no one who likes scripture would do this. no one who doens’t like scripture should get money for that.

  • @latenightnoir
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    I have no idea what any of that means, but I’ve recognised the word “coffee” on the cup and everything else became irrelevant. I want one.

    • @[email protected]
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      9411 hours ago

      The cup is using Japanese letters that look somewhat like English letters to spell “Soul of Coffee”. The comment is how those letters are read in Japanese.

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        I’ve been learning Japanese for over two years now and English is not my native language. I had no idea what was going on.

        I hate this

      • @latenightnoir
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        Ooooooh, that makes a lotta sense! I really should’ve abused my first ex’s willingness to share her knowledge of Japanese…

        Edit: thank you!

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 hours ago

      No wonder why I couldn’t read that, I was trying to read the Japanese because I’m learning it

      It’s not Japanese, they really should not do that because their going to confuse a lot of bilingual folk

      • @clubb
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        610 hours ago

        I ran into the same issue as you, but for me looking at the entire thing as opposed to individual kana helped

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      All us former or present weebs that once learned Hiragana, Katakana, maybe 5 words and phrases, and basically nothing else, understand. (And the people actually speaking Japanese, too)

      • @[email protected]
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        710 hours ago

        You can’t learn Japanese from anime alone

        If you think you can then あなたはバカ

        (Please do not reply to me in Japanese because I can’t communicate it in fluently yet because I’m still learning it)

        • @[email protected]
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          510 hours ago

          Oh, back then I totally also used… some websites I found on google. And, uhm… I think I remember printing out a torrented professional Japanese handbook, making a fancy folder to put it in and then… never actually using it. :D

          As you can see, teenage/young adult me was very realistic and very committed!

          • @[email protected]
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            37 hours ago

            Reminds me of probably the most pretentious thing I ever did: as a teenager in the late 90s, I tried to learn Russian in order to read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in the original 😆

          • @[email protected]
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            27 hours ago

            I am committed to it right now but currently keeping an eye on a cyclone (hurricane for americans) to make sure it doesn’t hit land

            Hoping it’ll just pass by

            I do have a procrastination problem as well that I somehow need to get over

            Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I’m aware of there being torrents for it

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              Good luck, dealing with procrastination is hard, but it definitely is doable!

              Oh and was it genki by chance that you tormented because lets just say I’m aware of there being torrents for it

              Sadly, I genuinely don’t remember, was around 2010 or so, so quite a while back.

  • PrivateNoob
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    Do these starbucks like drink can be even thought as a “coffee”? I remember trying out Starbucks once and I have felt barely any energy increase

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      Starbucks-like drink

      picture of a latte on ice

      ???

      I mean Starbucks coffee tastes like extra-burnt charcoal I’ll give you that, but I don’t think an iced latte is a far out drink or anything…

    • Superb
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      66 hours ago

      “Is Starbucks even coffe3???”

      Yeah man, it’s made with coffee beans and it’s got caffeine in it. Some people don’t need a whole ton of caffeine to feel it.

      If you want to feel something, try their cold brews

    • @[email protected]
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      46 hours ago

      I dunno man, for me it’s as simple as “does it taste good?” “It does? Good.” And I like coffee flavor in sweets and desserts.

    • @WereCat
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      It’s not about drinking a coffee. It’s about coughing a drink.