loss of eyesight you fear
So I was curious about the warning label on my telescope:
With the picture, the message it's trying to convey is fairly obvious. But I was curious how the Japanese would translate. So with the help of the Windows Character Map application, and Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary, I came up with the following:
危険
失明の恐れあり太陽を見るな
失明の恐れあり太陽を見るな
Google translates this as:
Dangerous
Loss of eyesight you fear and look at the sun
Loss of eyesight you fear and look at the sun
Does this look accurate to those of you who know more Japanese than me?
Hi, just browsing around LJ and found your question. Good job on the transcription, but the translation is a little off:
Danger
Due to risk of blindness
Don't look at the sun
The trickier parts:
恐れ = (noun) fear
~の恐れあり = a risk/danger of ~
見る = to look, see
見るな = (command) Don't look
Danger
Due to risk of blindness
Don't look at the sun
The trickier parts:
恐れ = (noun) fear
~の恐れあり = a risk/danger of ~
見る = to look, see
見るな = (command) Don't look
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ghewgill
2005-04-09T14:50:20Z
Thanks! Makes more sense now.
murt19_21
2005-04-21T17:38:17Z
Thanks guys. That was good for a laugh. I knew you could go to google for translation, but have never done it. That is a good idea. I have friends who have gotten tattoos in Chinese and Japanese just on the good word of the parlor that it is correct in meaning.
ghewgill
2005-04-21T17:48:40Z
The site http://hanzismatter.com/ is great for that sort of thing. Almost every day there are new tattoos with crazy meanings!
2005-04-09T04:02:12Z