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haha heard someone was looking for me :P

 

Farmer, I replied to your PM, but I thought maybe I'd post the info here too (for educational purposes)... Japanese <-> English doesn't always translate directly. It gets especially tricky in sentence structure.

 

The kanji you showed on the shirt is

pronounced: "nezumi taiyou"...

which literally means "Rat/mouse/etc" + "sun"

 

I understand the attempt to make "RATSUN" but to have kanji (which have meanings) put together, ends up not making sense.

 

The correct way to go about is to use katakana "ラットサン” pronounced RATTOSAN (like it's ダットサン DATTOSAN counterpart)

 

...OR... (and this is really pushing it)

 

to have kanji that SOUNDS like "RATSUN" but wouldn't have any meaning.

羅戸山 means WOOL/CLOTH-DOOR-MOUNTAIN

裸賭三 means NAKED-WAGER-3

...yah...makes ZERO sense! HAHAHAHA :lol:

 

I...and I think most Japanese would agree to just use KATAKANA

 

 

 

hope this helps!

ーゴキ

Thanks for the insight. Its all good.

 

Larry

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Farmer...

 

make sure the ”ツ” is smaller "ラットサン”

 

or else you're saying ”ラツトサン” "ratsutosan"...see the difference?

 

 

..do I get a shirt for translating? :P

 

 

ーゴキ

Wow, theres that much difference? I'll fix it.

 

FIXED

 

 

Larry

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oh no. damn i wish shipping was faster i wanted one for canby. i almost want to drive down to you and pick up a box a shirts and sell them for you so i can be sure to get mine on time lol

 

 

if you do Id want a Med back/red rattosan shirt :lol:

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oh no. damn i wish shipping was faster i wanted one for canby. i almost want to drive down to you and pick up a box a shirts and sell them for you so i can be sure to get mine on time lol

That'll be cool, but I really dont have alot of black shirts right now. Just sent off a half dozen yesterday. Shipping to Grants Pass to Eugene should only be one day, if not Two. If I ship today, it should be there by Thurs

 

Larry

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IF the ones your talking about are peel and stick stickers, I dont have the equipment for those. If so, you can take care of those. But I can make the window decals no problem.

 

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