#tsurai

Something may be wrong with me this took a whole four hours .

Even most of my fully shaded full bodies only take like 20-60 minutes, but I wanted to perfect the comics style . As you can see, this failed and it doesn’t look like the comic at all .

But I’m happy with it .

Edit, the background is a blurred panel from the comic .

i made a personality quiz based on the webcomic Spicy Mints and centered it around the main 4 and I honestly really love it.

Okay, kids, today we’re going to be talking about a really funny phenomenon that is present in MANY languages that cannot be solved by machine translation - and how it will make your L2 dinner conversations 100% funnier. 

You see this translation up here? This is Google Translate’s attempt to translate the word ‘spicy’ - a very solid attempt, a good effort. 

It is both correct but also kind of hilariously wrong at the same time.

The kanji translation above is correct - spicy is indeed written as 辛い.

But the pronunciation guide is wrong. It should be pronounced ‘karai’.

But the kanji 辛い has... another meaning. And another reading. 

It can also be read as ‘tsurai’ is means... painful. Difficult. 

And let’s check back which ‘pronunciation’ Google decided to give us......

...uh-oh.

So I’m fully ready to imagine this wonderful scenario between a well-meaning Japanese beginner and some poor grandma: