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  2. Pseudo-Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Pseudo-Chinese involves taking sentences which are grammatically Japanese and stripping away the hiragana and katakana, leaving only the kanji behind. This causes the resultant sentence to appear Chinese. The phenomenon has spread to China, where Chinese speakers can often guess the meaning of the sentences despite not knowing Japanese.

  3. Mandarin Chinese profanity - Wikipedia

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    An anti-Japanese variant of yáng guǐzi, and similar to Rìběn guǐzi above. (Note that whereas the term 東洋 has the literal meaning of "Orient" in the Japanese language, the characters themselves mean "eastern ocean", and it refers to Japan exclusively in modern Chinese usage—since Japan is the country which lies in the ocean east of ...

  4. Japanese wordplay - Wikipedia

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    Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba ) [ 1 ] due to the language's large number of homographs (different meanings for a given ...

  5. Hokkien profanity - Wikipedia

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    khí-kàn (Chinese: 起姦) = start scolding someone in vulgarity, start swearing; kàn kha-tshng (Chinese: 姦尻川) = sodomy, anal or oral sex; káu-kàn-tūi(Chinese: 狗姦懟 ) = to curse someone being fucked/raped by a dog; hō͘-káu-kàn-kàn leh (Chinese: 予狗姦姦咧) = to curse someone to be fucked by a dog

  6. Kusoge - Wikipedia

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    The term kusogē is a portmanteau of kuso (クソ or 糞, lit. ' crap ') and gēmu (ゲーム, ' game '; a loanword from English).Though it is commonly attributed to illustrator Jun Miura [], and occasionally to Takahashi-Meijin of Hudson Soft, it is unclear when and by whom it was popularized – or whether a single source can be attributed in the first place.

  7. Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees - Wikipedia

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    Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees" is a racist playground chant that has been used to mock children of Asian origin. One rendering of the chant is "Chinese/Japanese/Dirty Knees/Look at these Chinese Japanese/Dirty Knees". [ 1 ]

  8. Humour in translation - Wikipedia

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    In addition, translation errors can be caused by the language incompetence of the translator in the target language, resulting in unintended ambiguity in the message conveyed. Translation errors can distort the intended meaning of the author or speaker, to the point of absurdity and ludicrousness, giving a humorous and comedic effect.

  9. Kuso - Wikipedia

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    Kuso is a term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody.In Japanese, kuso (糞,くそ,クソ) is a word that is commonly translated to English as curse words such as fuck, shit, damn, and bullshit (both kuso and shit refer to feces), and is often said as an interjection.