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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Most Awesome Japanese Use of a Foreign Word (バーコード)

He Says:
bar code/baa koodo (バーコード)=thin hair like a bar code

Many 50' or 60's years old people have a thin hair like a bar code.
Then subordinates use the word to complain like that stupid bar code boss!
Usually bar code old people's head is a bald head,and looks oily,you know.
So especially many young japanese girls hate bar code guys' looks.
But in a TV show,a japanese girl had to lick a old guy's bar code head.
Then she cried so much,was held down not to escape,and finally,
her face touched the oily bar code head fully.
It was so ugly moment..
That'll be funny if we scan the bar code head,a casher says 99cents or something!

She Says:
Hilarious. This is what we'd call a comb-over. But bar code is such a funny word for it.
There are many foreign words than get incorporated into the Japanese vocabulary and Japan-ized. That's why you wouldn't really pronounce the "r" in bar when you said this.
Usually though, the word just means what it means. This is one of the first words that I came in contact with that had an alternate meaning. And it's a great one!

The next word will be...まめちん。

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