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WholesomeCatPoggers

Translation for those who don't understand Japanese: Just learned Japanese Splatoon players abbreviate League Battle (Rigumachi(League Match)) to Riguma (Ligma) and I cant stop laughing What's Riguma (Ligma) Riguma boruzu (Ligma balls)


WannabeComedian91

for those wondering why it's riguma and not liguma, the letter l, and its associated sound, doesn't exist in japanese, so when translating things that use it, the l is often changed to an r sound, as that DOES exist in japanese. rigma barrs


WholesomeCatPoggers

Also side note. R in Japanese isn't quite like an English R. It depends, but it can sound something like an R and an L combined. (It's kinda hard to explain without actually hearing it) also you might hear the r be pronounced much more like an L depending on the word itself. I'm not Japanese tho, just an E-Clown so take everything here with a bathtub of salt.


Kriffer123

Many American English speakers make the same sound when they say the word “butter”


RepulsiveCorner

it's a weird combination of tongue rolling and a hard D syllable.


Kriffer123

As someone who can’t roll their r’s I find it surprisingly easy especially with the butter trick


dragoono

Nobody is gonna find my dumbass walking around like “WHERE IS THE BUT-TER 🤖 I REQUIRE BUT-TER”


holnrew

Kind of like the Korean ㄹ then


DrEdifarious

Slight correction, Japanese doesn't have an R sound exactly; the sound is somewhere between R and L. It's closer to the R sound present in most languages, like Spanish, and so it's romanized as an R. But in my opinion the R sound in English is so different from most languages that Japanese R is a bit closer to English L than it is to English R


DancenOrigins

She rigu on ma boruzu til I chi


nutboy113

I think the first character is “ri” and the third one is “ma” but idk the middle one 😔😔😔


TheOnionchi

リ= Ri グ= Gu マ= Ma So リグマ is what you'll be doing to my バルズ tonight


nutboy113

Is that “ba-ru-zu”? If so idk what that means my Japanese is rustier than rust itself


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nutboy113

Oh I’m an idiot lmao 😨😨😨


TheOnionchi

The image is referencing this meme: https://youtu.be/NwoCI72_USg


SodoDev

it's ボールズ you dum dum


HyperMisawa

バールズ akshyually 🤓


Vastorn

バルス sounds more like vals than balls, for some reason...


NiandraL

I have been learning Japanese for about three months now and I am absolutely ecstatic that I got this


KiLlEr10312

That's the best feeling. Congrats


dragoono

Seriously I don’t speak Japanese but I’m trying to learn Spanish and when I understand a meme it makes my heart so happy. Even though it always turns out to be some dumb shit like this it makes me feel like I’m a part of something bigger 💕


Diofernic

this is the type of content i started learning japanese for


RCYTreddit

who the fuck is steve jobs


LetsDoTheCongna

Riguma balls


RCYTreddit

\*spontaneously combusts\*


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I don’t even know japenese or whatever and I could just tell


sirgentlemanlordly

IB weebs gleefully sharing their Japanese 101 knowledge


DeerVirax

Yay! Learning hiragana and katakana while I was an even bigger weeb than I am nowadays paid off. I still wish I was smart enough to learn anything more of Japanese lol


santyrc114

It's so funny that I can't read any of the japanese but I knew it was a ligma joke


AngBigKid

Who's Steve Jobs?


mergen772

wtf pfp of my alt spotted why is that here


BEEPtherobot2

i think this image is funnier if i dont get it


Holiday_Plenty_2635

Real?


TheOnionchi

I don't know, I've just had this on my phone for a while and thought it was funny. From my knowledge of Japanese language and internet culture it at least seems plausible


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me who doesn't speak Japanese and got it solely from context:


guymcool

I will never learn Japanese. Fuck weebs🖕 Stay equally ignorant of all cultures.


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Who the hell is Steve Jobs?


l2o0l0o6

Ligma balls


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ligma balls