the stunning product of a workday

[insaneneko]

One of the things I do when I'm bored is write random things on scraps of paper. Sometimes they are Japanese words, to see if I can write the kanji (most of the time I can't). For some reason, today I decided to write country names usually written in katakana in romaji. And was amazed at how some of them looked like utter gibberish at first glance. When I started checking to make sure I was katakanaizing the countries correctly, I came across the old way of writing them, in kanji. Even more gibberish. XD

1. Igirisu (英吉利)
2. Doitsu (独乙)
3. Suisu (瑞西)
4. Airurando (愛蘭 )
5. Oosutoraria (濠太剌利 )
6. Mekishiko (墨西哥 )
7. Supein (西班牙 )
8. Roshia (露西亜 )
9. Burajiru (伯剌西爾 )
10. Amerika (亜米利加 )

1, 4 and 5 in particular looked like utter nonsense to me. 10 is a giveaway, of course.

Comments

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha. I remember that stuff when I was trying back in September to study Japanese (took a breather... wonder why ^_^)...

I don't recall much, offhand, but isn't 2-Dutch, 3- Switzerland? (Suisse), 4- Irlande, 5- Australia, 6- Mexico, 7- Spain, 8- Russia?

I'm stuck for #1 and 9... 10 is obvious.

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

Pretty good! 2 is actually Germany (from Deutsche). 1 is England and 9 is Brazil.