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“You can operate, if you put it once and you can make it a rule use it.”

I love Japlish.

As a former student of Japanese, I have come to appreciate the immense differences between Japanese and English, as well as those between Japanese and almost any other language.

Japanese, or nihongo, is an extremely difficult language to master, if not the most difficult of the world's major languages, of which Japanese ranks eighth. I am sure that my own attempts at freely constructing coherent sentences would be just as amusing and incomprehensible to Japanese speakers.

But this does not take away the pleasure of Japlish. It has been a while since I last visited Japan, so Admiring feelings over at Davezilla.com was a pleasant reminder of its uniqueness, as was Engrish.com [via Davezilla.com].