Comments on: What the…?

By: Kirbz

Kirbz — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:41:50 +0000

Hahaha, I encountered this as well in a shopping center. It’s probably a cool thing to use to attract customers. I mean, look at “Artist formally known as Prince”. He’s got something going on about him as well. Taken, it should be “known” on the sign, the store I went to had quite a few people buying up the atmosphere of this “pinky”. Well done Japan, another Engrish phrase successfully sold to the masses.

By: Davebo

Davebo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:05:31 +0000

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.

By: dragonlife

dragonlife — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:45 +0000

Condoms for your little finger?

By: roaf

roaf — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:31:12 +0000

Well, they are clever because people are talking about their weird name. It’s free advertising.

By: simaldeff

simaldeff — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:22:39 +0000

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..