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   マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 05:52:35 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

   Clearly what Mastodon needs more of is Japanese tongue twisters, so here's one I learned tonight (I say "learned", but I'm not claiming I can say it unaided 😅).

   東京特許許可局長
   今日急遽休暇許可拒否

   (とうきょうとっきょきょかきょくちょう
   きょうきゅうきょきゅうかきょかきょひ)

   "Tōkyō tokkyo kyoka kyokuchō kyō kyūkyo kyūka kyoka kyohi"

   I think (not sure because it's not really a grammatically correct sentence and ambiguous, but I guess that's not the point) it means something like "Head of the Tokyo Patent Approval Office today suddenly denied the vacation approval.

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     Paul (threedaymonk@sonomu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 07:45:51 JST Paul

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     @mario genuinely once found myself sitting next to a guy on the Shinkansen from Tokyo, who told me (in English) that he worked at the patent office in Tokyo. Ah! I said, 東京特許許可局!