July 19th 2021 - Weird Apartment Names
I found the video very interesting and funny. I have always wondered why Japanese apartment names are named the way they did for quite some time now. In the apartments that I have lived in before they have always named the apartments very fabulous names such as "Grand Heights" or "College Square".
I think in Japan instead of the usability and true definition of the English words they preferred fancy and fabulous expressive words.
I remember having a group work with some Japanese students in my university and we had an assignment to create a company. Although the english was very odd they still preferred the english that would be sensational when translated back to Japanese than a proper normal basic english words.
Though it can be abit weird some times I found that it's one of the interesting parts of Japan.
Thats weird! It makes me shake my head in wonderment. Very often American TV shows and movies will make jokes about Japanese tv, commercials or people and have them just say nonsense like "super power gives lucky best honor" or some such thing. Once place on my street, but not my apartment was called Vegetable Heights! Why?
ReplyDeleteI think it only makes senese to name your business somrthing fabulous yet weird and wrong - if it will be memorable. The proper weird name makes customers wonder and check out the brand. In the way, I find weird English naming a smart business solution.
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