From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-08-31T10:34:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How to spy on the Japanese Rubists

Hi,

At Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:35:55 +0900,
Rick DeNatale wrote in [ruby-talk:211552]:
> There's also romanji which is the english/european alphabet, which is

Japanese say it romaji, without 'n'.

> > and apparently also means 'motivation bean jam'.  Any time
> > they shorten something like that, it's almost assured to also mean
> > something else.  The translator has no way of knowing this was a short
> > form of other words, and does its best to translate.
> 
> Well maybe it's coming from there. I've discussed this with my
> Japanese-American wife, and she couldn't figure out how.  The only
> thing I can think of as being bean jam would be anko, which is a
> popular stiff jelly-like sweet made from the azuki bean.

It came from "yaruki an'noka?", which means "do you have the
motivation?".  "an'noka" is rough expression for "arunoka".

-- 
Nobu Nakada