Comments on: A Short Piece on the Elephant that Crushes Heineken Cans http://howtojaponese.com/2009/10/07/a-short-piece-on-the-elephant-that-crushes-heineken-cans/ How to "Get Used to" Japanese Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel http://howtojaponese.com/2009/10/07/a-short-piece-on-the-elephant-that-crushes-heineken-cans/comment-page-1/#comment-2250 Daniel Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:37:55 +0000 http://howtojaponese.com/?p=1221#comment-2250 Facebook friend Yngve says: <i>I saw a woman crush a beer can between her breasts in the 1987 Kiss documentary "Kiss Exposed" when I was a kid. Made a huge impression on me! I like that you keep "nori" untranslated, but I am not so sure about dozen vs. case. After all, you have made the narrator drink 24 cans of beer instead of 12, and that is not a marginal difference! If you don't want to use "dozen", then maybe "a couple of six-packs" would do. Anyway, a nice little story! Keep up the good work!</i> Ha, I'll have to check out that documentary. I like "a couple six-packs" - that's a really nice alternative. Although I like to think that if boku were American, he would have no problem taking down a whole case. To which he replied: <i>Not to mention if he were Norwegian! But come to think of it, I am not sure cans come in cases in Norway. Bottles do, but not even an elephant would want to crush glass barefooted!</i> Facebook friend Yngve says: I saw a woman crush a beer can between her breasts in the 1987 Kiss documentary “Kiss Exposed” when I was a kid. Made a huge impression on me!

I like that you keep “nori” untranslated, but I am not so sure about dozen vs. case. After all, you have made the narrator drink 24 cans of beer instead of 12, and that is not a marginal difference! If you don’t want to use “dozen”, then maybe “a couple of six-packs” would do.

Anyway, a nice little story! Keep up the good work!

Ha, I’ll have to check out that documentary.

I like “a couple six-packs” – that’s a really nice alternative. Although I like to think that if boku were American, he would have no problem taking down a whole case.

To which he replied: Not to mention if he were Norwegian! But come to think of it, I am not sure cans come in cases in Norway. Bottles do, but not even an elephant would want to crush glass barefooted!

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