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New "Bushism" Slang Word Sweeps Japan! "KAKKATE KOI!" ("OK, Bring Them On"): Japanese Press
Nikkan Gendai News ^
| 4 July 2003
| AmericanInTokyo
Posted on 07/03/2003 7:30:34 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
President George Bush's threat and taunt of terrorists to 'try their hand against the United States' has been highlighted, above the fold, in the Japanese press.
The newest buzzword sweeping Japan in connection with Bush and his image as a 'tough guy, no nonsense on terrorism dude' is:
"KAKKATE KOI!" or "OK, BRING IT ON THEN"
Directly transliterated, it means, "If you are going to come after me, then come on!"
This phrase is often heard in tough, burly precincts of blue collar Japan just before fists are hurled.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antius; bringthemon; bush; image; iraq; japan; kakkatekoi; terrorism; waronterror
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Love it!
101
posted on
07/03/2003 9:54:11 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: HangFire; diotima; feinswinesuksass
102
posted on
07/03/2003 10:41:03 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(unspunwithannaz.blogspot.com... "It is UNSPUN and it is Unspun, but it is not unspun." -- unspun)
To: AmericanInTokyo
How's it pronounced? KAK-ka-te? kak-KA-te? kak-ka-TE?
(Hansel? HANsel? HanSEL!)
103
posted on
07/03/2003 10:44:12 AM PDT
by
AnnaZ
(unspunwithannaz.blogspot.com... "It is UNSPUN and it is Unspun, but it is not unspun." -- unspun)
To: AnnaZ
the middle way, IIANM
104
posted on
07/03/2003 11:07:29 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Folks, I am NOT in Tokyo right now. So please don't worry about me being nuked by N. Korea. Thanks.)
To: Southack
The more I think about it, we should put up the KOREAN of this. Since in the coming months we are liable to see that issued from Bush to the Axis of Evil country we are about to come to odds with.
105
posted on
07/03/2003 11:09:06 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Folks, I am NOT in Tokyo right now. So please don't worry about me being nuked by N. Korea. Thanks.)
To: annyokie
Samurai status for Geroge W. Bush... coming!
To: ffusco
LOL!
Me or Patton? Either way, you'd be right!
107
posted on
07/03/2003 11:16:30 AM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: cherry_bomb88; DolceAmara; FBD; Treasa
fyi
108
posted on
07/03/2003 11:18:11 AM PDT
by
jla
To: AmericanInTokyo
KAKKATE KOI! KAKKATE KOI! YOU IRAQI/IRANIAN/SYRIA PIGS! KAKKATE KOI!
109
posted on
07/03/2003 11:18:31 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(KAKKATE KOI! KAKKATE KOI! YOU IRAQI/IRANIAN/SYRIA PIGS! KAKKATE KOI!)
To: csvset
I'm going to get this book, think it will be good reading for the 4th. Patton was a great General, a true mans man. Todays generation of women just don't know what they are missing . . .
110
posted on
07/03/2003 11:19:47 AM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
"KAKKATE KOI!"Isn't that what Bush Sr. said has he lost his lunch in the Japanese PM's lap?
To: AmericanInTokyo
That looks like Scott Ritter's name on the cover there... Scott Ritter's something-or-other about Iraq. What's that all about?
I don't see any "Kakkate Koi" there, though. I have long since forgotten 99.999% of whatever Kanji I once knew, so how is that written?
112
posted on
07/03/2003 11:22:24 AM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)
To: section9
You know, the minute that the Chia Pet starts firing his missles into the Sea of Japan, the Japanese Political Elite is going to get really
Chia Pet! Funny! You are talkin bout the korean dude with the hair right? (sorry, cant remember his name, long duck dong or something like that . . .)Chia Pet is much easier.
113
posted on
07/03/2003 11:22:37 AM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: AmericanInTokyo; jla
Most excellent!!!
You think it will hit our press just how popular Bush is in other parts of the world????
114
posted on
07/03/2003 11:27:11 AM PDT
by
cherry_bomb88
(The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven~Milton)
To: cherry_bomb88
It'll certainly frost the nuts of libs everywhere!!!
115
posted on
07/03/2003 11:28:14 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Folks, I am NOT in Tokyo right now. So don't worry about me being nuked by N. Korea. OK? Thanks.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Nope. Not that I know of.
Ask AiT. He'd know. I could be wrong (maybe).
116
posted on
07/03/2003 11:28:18 AM PDT
by
4mycountry
(13 and proud!)
To: Roughneck
More correctly, "Yo Kim Chia Head, the Short-Donged One"
117
posted on
07/03/2003 11:29:15 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Folks, I am NOT in Tokyo right now. So don't worry about me being nuked by N. Korea. OK? Thanks.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"The Japanese media and the book industry in Japan is VERY VERY anti-Bush. "
Well, if I had my choice of "like" versus "respect", I'll take respect any day of the week.
Of course the Japanese media is "anti-Bush"...most of what is fed to them is from OUR leftist media. Their correspondents who are here take their cues from our reporters.
The problem is, we give too much of a s**t what these foreign countries think about us...we have given most of them zillions in foreign aid, and yet everyday someone is "shaming" us because some little podunk country doesn't "like" our President, or we should be more like (insert podunk country here).
I personally don't care what Japan thinks about our President, but I'll bet you they won't f**k with him...THAT IS WHAT COUNTS. "Respect" trumps "Like".
118
posted on
07/03/2003 11:29:34 AM PDT
by
FrankR
To: cherry_bomb88
You think it will hit our press just how popular Bush is in other parts of the world????You need to lie down, you're getting fuzzy in the head. LOL
119
posted on
07/03/2003 11:29:57 AM PDT
by
jla
To: 4mycountry
"baka" will suffice for "crazy" but is really more suited for "idiot", "imbecile", "dolt", "moron", "ignoramus" and the like.
However, I have heard the westernization of crazy as "kurae(zh)ee", phoneticized and in katakana. For example, 'honma ni, aitsu wa kuraezhee' (really, that guy is crazy!) in Osaka for example....
120
posted on
07/03/2003 11:31:46 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Folks, I am NOT in Tokyo right now. So don't worry about me being nuked by N. Korea. OK? Thanks.)
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