Japanese Memes

[MaddietheMuffin]

Couldn’t find a topic about memes in/about Japanese so here’s one. Show me your best memes. I’m waiting!

The phrase for “to count on your fingers” could literally be translated as “to break your fingers” (指を折る)

[YukiPhoenix]

Not to be a downer, but I think it comes from the meaning as bend/fold not break.

[plantron]

[CarmeloCrunch]

これを作った。だけど、正しいか正しくないかどうか分からないんです。

[depressed-axolotl]

[MaddietheMuffin]

運河 (うんが) is the word for canal

[Naphthalene]

Well, there’s this thread at least. It’s not about Japanese per se, but there are some related memes as well.

Memes in Japanese

Let’s study together through the power of internet meme’s. The full meme don’t have to be in Japanese, but let’s try to keep them somewhat easy peasy Japanese so this topic won’t become another everything goes meme topic. (Just post there instead if it has no 日本語) Starting with something I stole from Reddit that gave me the inspiration for how fun this can be: [FYUG9Dw]