One of the things that everyone leaning Japanese knows almost before anything else is that "koi" means "love" and "carp" depending on the kanji
鯉 --こい-- common carp; koi carp
恋 --こい-- (n) love; tender passion
I bet there are tons of the jokes in misinterpreting and interchanging the meanings. Not that I have any particular examples. Anyway, these particular "koi" are from the München Zoo - a very nice place to spend a weekend ))))
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I saw this cutest thing in a little shop Ulm and just could not help myself. It says "Cats are stupid." I really want to make one like this for my little garden ))))) With my little knowledge of Japanese it comes up with: 猫がバカですよ。 but I'm not totally sure if it makes sense to anyone exept me. Good thing my neightbours do not know Japanese and I have little chance of embarassing myself. And the cats - they will not see the difference between German, English or Japanese )))
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A random photo of the swans, because they are just so beautiful. And in the connection I cannot miss the all-time classical shoujo manga スワン-白鳥 by 有吉京子 (Ariyoshi Kyouko). I believe was the final volume of the re-print of this epic ballet manga.
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