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発進!!

• lutusp 13y ago
  > 発進!! The English literal translation is "departure", but based on a Web search for related terms I suspect this has a different idiomatic meaning in everyday Japanese -- more like "take action" or "start to move".
  • 10098 13y ago
    Or "take off!" or "launch!". The joke is that, in a lot of animes you can hear the characters uttering this word when a mecha (or fighter jet, or something similar) is about to be launched into action.
    • lutusp 13y ago
      Thanks! I once heard someone quote what was supposed to be a Japanese saying: "Fix the problem, not the blame." I thought it was wise and I started repeating it among professional associates. Finally it dawned on me that it might have been originally based on a Japanese saying, but the ambiguous meaning of "fix" relied on an English idiom that almost certainly didn't exist in Japanese. I must have repeated it ten times before I realized its clever wording only worked in English.