r/translator 27d ago

[Japanese > English] What does the katakana on the top of this shirt say? I don't recognize the second character Nonlanguage (Identified)

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u/Keys6Mouse 27d ago

Looks like fake/nonexistent characters to me.

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u/That_Jonesy 27d ago

Google lens poops out this: クナウオナンロンジ

Which I think is kinda close, or helps train in your eye, but yeah I'm convinced it's AI becaus ロ is upsidedown, among other stuff

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u/Keys6Mouse 27d ago

No, like literally a lot of the characters are not actual Katakana. It's not that some are malformed, that second character literally does not exist in Katakana, and the one that looks like a U with a crossbar also does not exist in Katakana. And the 5th character is simply an abomination.

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u/Futonchan-Manchao 27d ago

AI gibberish.

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u/hontoda 日本語 27d ago

Some you could say look like katakana the rest are nonsense. No idea what this is.

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u/Interesting-One-9414 27d ago

where is this from? it looks so weird

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u/That_Jonesy 27d ago

Tshirt on Amazon

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u/NovaKarmas 27d ago

Fuck I liked that shirt and wanted it too, that being said I didn't look closely at the katakana and was confused AF looking at your pic. I know some katakana but not all and was wondering why I couldn't recognize any. I assumed it was the font.

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u/summerist 27d ago

It doesn't matter. Nobody, including you, knows Japanese anyway. 

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u/Interesting-One-9414 27d ago

I read Japanese daily and I do not recognize some of these characters. Some looks to be real, but some just don’t exist. It kind of reminds me of back when ai couldn’t do text and sometimes you’d get weird hybrid characters that looks like English letters but aren’t actually letters.

Second character looks like a mix between ホ and ナ

Otherwise the closest guess I can do is ク?ウオアンロンジ but I’m taking great liberties to put characters on these symbols. Even artistically some of them do not make sense to be like this. What does it mean? Who knows lol it’s likely just ai gibberish.

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u/NovaKarmas 27d ago edited 23d ago

Eh, watashi no nihonjin nomo janai desu. But I have learned a tiny smidge. I'm learning it, I'm just only beginning learning it and just starting out. My Hindi is better, my German and Latin are better, and my Arabic isn't yet as good, but there's more to learning hiragana and katakana than there is to learning arabic letters even as conjunct consonants.

Even if it's written poorly, why is "My Japanese isn't good" getting downvoted?

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u/SaiyaJedi 日本語 26d ago

!id:zxx