Date   : Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:27:02 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: [OT] Who'da thought...

Rick Murray wrote:
>>> Hmm, I would have thought it has an ECU
>> Ok, you lost me at "Hmm"... ;)
>
> Here's a dead-simple test:
>    Do you have a choke lever?

No.... what's one of them?

> If you have a choke, you don't have an ECU.
> If you don't have a choke, you DO have an ECU.

>> What? Motsu nippongo wataksi e.
> Motsu - bring
> Nihongo - Japanese
> wataksi - some form of watashi? "we" perhaps?
> e - [direction marker, no literal translation]
>
> "We bring Japanese"?

Hmm. Should have been: That's all Japanese to me.
Motsu - all
nippongo - japanese
wataksi - me (informal)
e - towardsness

> PS: You have no idea how much I wish Google translate could cope with
>      romaji, or at least offer an ASCII->JP input system.

Ditto. Jumping between squiggles on screen and my Kenkyusha is fiddly.

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