Comments on: こんにちは日本から http://nz.kalafut.net/?p=34 A journal of learning to work and live in The Land of the Long White Cloud. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 By: Jeff the Bold http://nz.kalafut.net/?p=34&cpage=1#comment-16 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:57:00 +0000 http://www.kalafut.net/wordpress/?p=34#comment-16 I showed this phrase to Barbara, and she thought it was a bit oddly constructed. She thought that a Japanese person wouldn’t really express it in this way. If you think about it, “Hello from Japan” is in a pretty colloquial form, and is probably not quite syntactically correct. I can easily see it giving the Google translator fits.

According to B, the “today from Japan” on the return results from the similarity between the words “hello” (konnichiha) and “today” (konnichi).

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