Happy Engrish Friday!

Posted on September 16, 2011 by superhappyawesome

You guys, seriously. What is a tuck diary? What does that even mean? Is that a thing? Cause when we saw this in the store, that ‘t’ pretty much looked like an ‘f’. Um, yeah….

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13 Responses to Happy Engrish Friday!

  1. Katy K's avatar Katy K says:
    September 16, 2011 at 10:51 am

    I’m just guessing here, but perhaps it’s because it’s small enough to ‘tuck’ into a purse or pocket? Yeah, that’s all I’ve got. ^^;

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  2. balinesecat's avatar balinesecat says:
    September 16, 2011 at 10:54 am

    When I hear the word “tuck” my first thought is what drag performers do to keep the manly parts from stealing the show 🙂

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  3. Blue Shoe's avatar Blue Shoe says:
    September 16, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    Maybe because it’s, like…tucked into that leather? Or because it’s small and can be tucked into places? Those are my best guesses.

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  5. Jonadab's avatar Jonadab says:
    September 16, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    I’m thinking you can tuck it in a pocket or purse and carry it around.

    The thing is, we know at least somebody in Japan knows about the English construction “pocket [noun]”, because just a couple of years ago there was a popular cartoon series with that for its title (albeit with both words abbreviated to their first two morae in typical Japanese fashion).

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  6. DavesETEC674's avatar Blogginjapan says:
    September 17, 2011 at 4:26 am

    Perhaps it is a book that was designed by Friar Tuck?

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  7. ayaelalawi's avatar Shinai Aya says:
    October 4, 2011 at 2:41 am

    I’ve gotta TUCKen get one of those!

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