Do the Japanese send text messages?
Only they don't seem to have enough words or letters on their buttons. How can this be enough letter combinations to send a coherent message?

Unless the Japanese language is so streamlined they can get by with only ten words. Actually, thinking about it, we only use ten words when texting anyway.
THE ONLY TEN WORDS WE USE WHEN TEXTING:
EXAMPLE MESSAGES:
TRAIN LATE MAYBE DINNER?
NO DINNER :(
LATE MAYBE. DINNER?
DINNER?
LATE DINNER :(
LOVE DINNER!
DELAYED. MEET LATE. HAVE DINNER?

Unless the Japanese language is so streamlined they can get by with only ten words. Actually, thinking about it, we only use ten words when texting anyway.
THE ONLY TEN WORDS WE USE WHEN TEXTING:
1: Train
2: Delayed
3: Late
4: Sex
5: Love
6: Meet
7: Have
8: Dinner
9: No
10: Maybe
EXAMPLE MESSAGES:
TRAIN LATE MAYBE DINNER?
NO DINNER :(
LATE MAYBE. DINNER?
DINNER?
LATE DINNER :(
LOVE DINNER!
DELAYED. MEET LATE. HAVE DINNER?






20 Comments:
Well, to provide a serious answer to a light-hearted question, clearly the Japanese don't have a key for every kanji character; a mobile phone with 6000 keys on would be probably about the same size as a broadsheet newspaper (although much more cool, natch). So instead they divide the Japanese language into syllables (of which they only have 52 combinations). So, you key in "sh" plus "i" which generates the syllable "shi" (no, really)... you then just have to scoll through the appropriate meanings of the word shi, which include, but are not limited to: "four", "death", "town", "reverend", "poetry", "nature", "letter" and "haemorrhoid". So, no chance of confusion there then.
Still, the idea of the ten fixed textable words is a good one, although in the case of the Japanese you would need to include "bondage" and "sea urchin"... mind you, their trains are never late so you could save a couple of words there...
See. I bet you wish you hadn't asked now.
Thanks for the proper and serious answer. I really had wondered about that for ages.
Shouldn't your name have an h in it?
Also to add to the aforementioned explanation, my last entry level phone had you basically type phonetically s->h->i as you would on your phone, and it then shoves the character in (on the press of the final letter).
Of course where we have capital letters in English, they have 2 alphabets and a Chinese writing system. So - you basically write in one system and convert that into Chinese characters, or opt for the last alphabet, identical to the first one in composition, but which looks totally different.
More commonly though, Japanese people will simply take photos of everything. If you ever see something beautiful, or some live event, you will see it through about 64 little screens infront of you. Like techno-spiders see the world.
Apparently the CHinese use a similar system to the Japanese. (I wondered about this a while back, so asked someone.)
Bugger. The anonymous was me.
Or you could use the stroke method (works for Chinese, and since Japanese is just a bastardisation of the language we would imagine it would work there). For example, T has a horizontal stroke (Top) and a verticle stroke(Middle). Tow key presses. The romanisation version by 'father viv' is for those too lazy to use this. Either that, or some of us like the words stoke and Chinese in the same article
every one know's they only send mms. A voice message with highly possed shots on a slide show!
Stop with the sense, show us examples of sex messages using only your ten word vocabulary.
The people above are either drunk or stupid. On a japanese mobile there are buttons for each consonant in Japanese (for there are not many of them), and then you press each button depending on which vowel you want to combine with them, in the order AIUEO. So, to select the above 'shi' you'd press the 's' consonant buttons twice. Then you can select the actual word from the phonetic transcription.
One thing the Japanese don't do, however, is buy Nokia phones. This is perhaps a far more important point than anyone has made in this thread so far. They don't really do MMS either as they have 'proper' email. And they don't buy Vodafone phones eitherbecause the 3G reception is disastrous (walk inside a building, kiss any reception goodbye!)
SEX DELAYED. TRAIN DINNER :(
MEET DINNER. MAYBE SEX?
LOVE SEX. MEET LATER?
SEX MAYBE? MEET LOVE TRAIN!
You could get away with using these words in a personal ad:
No Delayed Dinner, Meet Late, Have
Train Sex, Maybe Love
SEX?
[send to many]
SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX!
MAYBE LOVE?
"Anonymous said...
The people above are either drunk or stupid."
Your point being?
Oh, and, you are absolutely right. My phone was a shitty entry-level Sharp phone.
Sex train late. Have dinner sex?
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物料整理架
登高车
仓库登高车
消防登高车
物流台车
载物台车
料箱
钢制料箱
托盘搬运车
手动托盘搬运车
电动托盘搬运车
堆高机
堆垛机
手动堆高机
电动堆高机
叉车
电动叉车
内燃叉车
叉车厂
置物架
多功能置物架
卫浴置物架
料箱
钢制料箱
钢制周转箱
手动液压托盘搬运车
不锈钢托盘搬运车
电动托盘搬运车
手动液压堆高车
半电动堆高车
电动堆高车
堆垛车
手推车
静音手推车
铁板手推车
登高车
置物架
不锈钢置物架
浴室置物架
物料整理架
挂板架
料箱
工作台
工作桌
工具车
工具柜
零件柜
零件盒
周转箱
文件柜
平台车
搬运车
液压搬运车
液压托盘搬运车
手动液压托盘搬运车
电动搬运车
半电动搬运车
电子秤搬运车
不锈钢搬运车
高起升搬运车
油桶搬运车
圆桶搬运车
堆高车
堆垛车
手动堆垛车
手动堆高车
电动堆高车
电动堆垛车
半电动堆垛车
半电动堆高车
叉车
内燃叉车
电动叉车
电动平衡重式叉车
内燃平衡重式叉车
手推车
静音手推车
铁板手推车
登高车
置物架
不锈钢置物架
浴室置物架
物料整理架
挂板架
料箱
工作台
工作桌
工具车
工具柜
零件柜
零件盒
周转箱
文件柜
平台车
搬运车
液压搬运车
液压托盘搬运车
手动液压托盘搬运车