What the…?
Any ideas what this clothes shop sign means?
Any ideas what this clothes shop sign means?
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April 8, 2008 at 4:22 am
IMHO it’s a misinterpretation of the A.K.A which stands for “Also known as”, from this assumption there is 2 possibilities :
- the public relation or communication guy though it would looks cooler to write “as know as pinky” than to write “also known as pinky”. which is a strange choice as everybody in japan knows how to speak perfectly in English.
- or the guy that chose the name just never was a well trained english speaker … which is strange as we are talking about japan here.
Anyway it’s too late … the copyright is probably registered now..
April 8, 2008 at 8:31 am
Well, they are clever because people are talking about their weird name. It’s free advertising.
April 10, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Condoms for your little finger?
April 10, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Sorry to be redundant, but I second the “A.K.A” meaning. With the popularity of English in Japan I can’t imagine a corporate store with plenty of research money would do this on accident. Either its a clever ploy to appeal the the japanese masses that speak broken englishso they can better understand it, or engrish is becoming a trending new art form in the land of the rising sun.