South park makers fluent in Japanese. Or not?

[GoldCoinLover]

Oh I see, sorry about that. I forgot things a lot.

 

[KrazyKat]

Trey confuses the hiragana and katakana forms of Japanese lettering in the following song, which is presented in romaji here. Thanks to breayle for the text, and to my dictionaries and Alessandra, Chaos, and other fans for corrections and amendments.

Well, we can't see the original japanese so we can't actually see where the hiragana and katakana are mixed up. However katakana can by used to write words normally written in hiragana for emphasis etc. it can also be used to replace all the hiragana in a sentence to imitate certain speaking styles, often robots etc, （that's probably the only time you'll see ヲ by the way.）. I have a hunch that the original Japanese was fine and the translator just didn't understand this, my evidence that they needed dictionaries and lots of help to translate the song. Well, we'll never know if we can't see the Japanese where he mixed it up though.

 

[MeAndroo]

Well, we can't see the original japanese so we can't actually see where the hiragana and katakana are mixed up. However katakana can by used to wirte words normally written in hiragana for emphasis etc. it can also be used to replace all the hiragana in a sentece to imitate certain speaking styles, often robots etc, ﾂ（thats probably the only time you'll see ﾆ停?卍 by the way.ﾂ）. I have a hunch that the orginal Japanese was fine and the translator just didn't understand this, my evidence that they needed dictionaries and lots of help to translate the song. Well, we'll never know if we can't see the Japanese where he mixed it up though.

I recall kenka being written in katakana, and they used a fair amount of kanji in appropriate places. It actually wasn't a bad effort, considering 95% of the audience would never know if it was correct or not...which it was.

 

[The7thSamurai]

That South Park ninja song is written in both bad English and weird Japanese. They deliberately made it that way to make fun of all the strange English found around Japan.