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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:11:34 AM

Title: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:11:34 AM: That's what the bottle of coffee I got off the vending machine says. And it's pretty good coffee, too.

Japanese packaging is interesting. Y'know how in US advertising, the idea is always to have a very short, catchy message? Well, in Japanese advertising whenever there's English it serves a mostly decorative purpose so they try to put in hugely long sentences and they always sound a bit odd.
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in tas
Post by: Scurvy Stan on May 07, 2007, 03:14:38 AM: Quaff?
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Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in tas
Post by: Beezy on May 07, 2007, 03:15:05 AM: You're drinking coffee? What time is it over there?

Edit: Yeah, what the hell is quaff?
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:15:24 AM: 4 PM.

And quaff is a real word and it's being properly used, it's just not really common so it feels like some Japanese guy looked up synonyms for "drink" and came up with "quaff."
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in tas
Post by: Beezy on May 07, 2007, 03:20:16 AM: Ah, so Japan is 11 hours ahead of NY. I'll remember that.
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:25:15 AM: Not looking this up in a dictionary or anything but if I recall correctly, quaff means to take a big drink or a big gulp of something.
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in tas
Post by: Beezy on May 07, 2007, 03:27:50 AM: It's seriously too close to queef.
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Mupepe on May 07, 2007, 03:29:41 AM: to drink a beverage, esp. an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:30:53 AM: What's queef?

And yeah, what Mupepe said. I'm proud I remembered the definition pretty well, as it's been about 15 years since I last read that word in a sentence.
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Mupepe on May 07, 2007, 03:32:28 AM: Quote from: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:30:53 AM
What's queef?

a pussy fart
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: BlueTsunami on May 07, 2007, 03:34:49 AM: A gaggle of ducks!
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in tas
Post by: Beezy on May 07, 2007, 03:36:29 AM: Quote from: BlueTsunami on May 07, 2007, 03:34:49 AM
A gaggle of ducks!
:lol
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in tas
Post by: Scurvy Stan on May 07, 2007, 03:37:49 AM: I picture british guys saying quaff a lot.

Are you up for a spot of quaff?

I'd quaff that.

I be rollin, they be quaffin'.
Title: Re: Let's take a quaff of milky mild coffee! This is big in size and rich in taste!!
Post by: Ichirou on May 07, 2007, 03:56:25 AM: I think you can also use it as a verb. For example, "He quaffed down a large draught of beer in mere moments."