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My friend Evan bought an iPhone

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

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My Palace Mansion

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I’m certainly not the first one who’s noticed that Japanese apartment buildings often have weird English names (I can think of Tony László in one of the ダーリンは外国人 books.) In fact, I moved into my very own “Palace Mansion” myself a couple weeks ago. No, really. That’s the name of the place.

A mansion? By Japanese standards, yes.1 A palace? Um… not quite. Take a look—here are some pictures from my move-in.

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  1. マンション (“mansion”) in Japanese actually refers to an apartment complex of at least a certain size. It’s an instance of 和製英語—English-sounding words in the Japanese lexicon which, for some reason or another, do not actually exist or mean the same thing in English. 

Oh Twitter, you’re so funny

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

I don’t think those two were related.


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