Uvula

November 5, 2010

“In Japanese, if you translate our word for that part of the body back into English it comes out as something like ‘throat penis’, something really ugly. So I like the contrast of this beautiful word in English with the weird, ugly word in Japanese.”

posted by Andrew Simone in games, language | * | 2 comments

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Deron Bauman on November 5th, 2010 at 10:37 am

nice.
Dave Vogt on November 5th, 2010 at 9:43 pm

low-hanging fruit.

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