I wouldn't mind having a friend who was a health nut. Food would probably taste like poop, but I'd certainly be living a hell of a lot better than I am now.

"Translation is progress. Please wait warmly." Heehee. :) I don't blame you for struggling with the wall of text, @DevilDevilish, but the Engrish you used for the placeholder is delightful.

Translation is progress. Please wait warmly

I can't stop laughing at that.

Seeing that wall of text scared the hell out of me lol
Someone else ended up translating it before I'm done, which I am thankful for. Times like these make me awfully conscious of how I'm lacking in terms of vocabulary. I didn't know those kanji reads as "nutrition", "burdock", and "abundant/rich amount". Not knowing what a burdock is (I ended up having to google it) because English is not my native tongue made it even worse.

Poor Ohagi-chan seems embarrassed to be associated with the health nut.

Mithiwithi said:

"Translation is progress. Please wait warmly." Heehee. :) I don't blame you for struggling with the wall of text, @DevilDevilish, but the Engrish you used for the placeholder is delightful.

It's a memetic loading text from Touhou. "Girls are preparing, please wait warmly."

DevilDevilish said:

Seeing that wall of text scared the hell out of me lol
Someone else ended up translating it before I'm done, which I am thankful for. Times like these make me awfully conscious of how I'm lacking in terms of vocabulary. I didn't know those kanji reads as "nutrition", "burdock", and "abundant/rich amount". Not knowing what a burdock is (I ended up having to google it) because English is not my native tongue made it even worse.

(Cleaned up the text a bit)

To be fair, gobo is normally written in kana. It's also delicious, and makes excellent tempura - you can make it like french fries, making an excellent bar snack. I'm a great fan. (It's also really cheap).

Don't worry about having to google words, even Japanese people have to do that sometimes especially when a word is presented differently to how it normally would be written. If you have real trouble, you can type/ocr the whole thing into a machine translator to get a list of the words (not for the actual translation).

Paracite said:

(Cleaned up the text a bit)

To be fair, gobo is normally written in kana. It's also delicious, and makes excellent tempura - you can make it like french fries, making an excellent bar snack. I'm a great fan. (It's also really cheap).

Don't worry about having to google words, even Japanese people have to do that sometimes especially when a word is presented differently to how it normally would be written. If you have real trouble, you can type/ocr the whole thing into a machine translator to get a list of the words (not for the actual translation).

Thanks for the clean up, always appreciated. Translating things also serves as practice for me (in both English and Japanese), so I try to learn whenever my translation got corrected by others.

Interesting, that burdock plant is completely new to me. Doesn't seems like they are common in the places where I lived so far. That, or I didn't realize having eaten it before ww

And thanks for the additional info too. I'll try that machine translator method if I encounter this kind of problem again.

Gobo also makes an excellent insult, I'm told.

HashireKazemeijin said:

I wouldn't mind having a friend who was a health nut. Food would probably taste like poop, but I'd certainly be living a hell of a lot better than I am now.

Healthy food can taste even better than some "yummy fastfood" if your health nut is also a passable cook. Plus, they'd actually know how to cook properly to retain both the nutrition and flavor.

I'd still go for the fastfood, though, for the sake of expediency.