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TIL There is a Japanese word,ごっつん盗, that translates to, "To steal a car by gently rear-ending it and having a friend jump into the car and drive off after the driver gets out of their car to yell or bitch at you.
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East St. Louis. Different city in a different state, technically.
No no, it in Missouri too, it's called a bump and run...
Funny everyone says St. Louis is dangerous but I was only robbed thrice there.
Im still waiting to see this happen first hand driving around my neighborhood. States streets are pretty fucked up
That looks like a whole sentence.
The literal word-for-word translation is closer to "bump-steal" (ごっつん = bump/thud, 盗 = steal). I guess the literal translation wouldn't make any sense unless you expanded on it.
Funny enough that's what I thought when I read "bump-steal". I can hardly imagine an alternative explanation. What else could you make out of "bump-steal"? Distract the driver by fist bumping him, make him crash and unconscious, and then steal his car?
I've heard that pickpockets will sometimes bump into people so that they don't notice their wallet being pulled out of their back pocket. So that's probably what my mind would have gone to.
Bump into a person and while they're distracted by you apologizing, have a friend steal their wallet/phone/whatever out of their back pocket. Or, alternatively, bumping into somebody and, using the sudden force, grabbing something from their pocket without them noticing.
Are you by any chance, in the CPR (covert property repossession) industry?
Nah, I just read a lot. If there's such a thing, I'd love to get involved in it.
Why is the word for "bump" so much bigger than the one for "steal"?
Japanese (native) word with no Kanji, so it's spelled phonetically with Hiragana.
gottsu
It only looks that way because they're comprised of different character sets, hiragana (simple characters) and kanji (complex characters). If you simplified 盜 to its hiragana form it would look like とう (tō). Also, ごっつん looks particularly long because of the extra small "っ" which marks a glottal stop and isn't actually pronounced as its own letter like a large つ (tsu).
Japanese has several writing systems, phonetic 'hiragana' for native words, conjugations, gramattical markers, etc, along another alphabet called 'katakana' to spell out foreign words. That being said, most Japanese words can be written using chinese kanji characters, as Japan used the chinese writing system for a long time.
ご(go) っ(sokuon - used to double a consonant) つ(tsu) ん(n) = Gottsun
盗 = Tō/tou (Which can also be written as と- or とう , but I'm not sure which because transliteration is messy).
There is an English word for the process of making someone think they are about to watch one video, but arranging things so that when they activate a hyperlink they, in fact, watch a different video showing a popstar from England playing a hit from 1987.
You mean this one?
The only mandatory part of a complete Japanese sentence is the verb, and all verbs are inflected with hiragana. That sequence of characters ends in a kanji, so it's a phrase rather than a sentence.
Or at least, that's what I think based on a little independent study of Japanese. Bring on the native speakers to correct me.
です is generally not considered a verb, so you aren't correct in your definition of a sentence.
Japanese idioms and sayings usually consist of exclusively kanji, but not always in general. Japanese verbs are so much fun I always laugh when people taking French or Spanish complain about it. To their defense though, Japanese doesn't have verb agreement.
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That's two words ;)
If there were a single word English translation for it then it wouldn't be noteworthy, would it?
Sorry, I thought it would be a simple single word.
As Japanese person I can tell you that this is infact, bullshit.
Too late bro, Reddit has your country's balls now.
体験か
Well the source is jisho, which is a respected Japanese dictionary. Someone else said it literally means bump-steal.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!
Oh, were you serious?
Wow!
Move over Daijisen and Daijirin and Kenkyuusha. The freeware EDICT is coming through!
It's literally used 226 times on the entirety of the internet.. Sorry. It's not a word.
A word existing tells me that this must be a fairly common act. That's worrying.
Try “kancho.” It might even be somewhere on Reddit.
Japanese is such a beautiful language, so elegant.
The dialect is so sharp, like fingers to the rectum.
I bet there's a Japanese word for that.
LPT trim your nails before rectal spelunking.
That it is. Alternately concise and complex.
Captain Ass Probe
::salutes the captain::
Gaijin smash!
In English, I'd call them a motherfucker!
Try Densha Chikan. (By that I mean google the word, not performing the relevant acts, uh nevermind.)
Been happening a lot near Cleveland Ohio too. It's a small world...
Just don't get angry and run outside your car after they bump into you.
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You need to hit them with the right kind of vehicle. While running from a tank is ubiquitous, if you are driving over cars with a bulldozer, people get mightily pissed and do in fact try to angry mob your vehicle.
I guess the weight and sharp edges of the bucket inflict highly insulting levels of damage, while regular 'accidents' are no worse than a bunch of people brushing past each other with large coats on a subway or in a bus.
Go to the Quarry near trevors landing strip. Those giant dump trucks used for moving lots of rock are there. Just dont run over the engine compartment instant explosion.
that's like translating "football" as a list of its rules. definitions are not translations, and it's not as though all of that information is encoded in the word itself.
" , you dropped this.
What kind of mook gets out of the car before putting it in park, engaging the parking break, turning off the car, and pocketing the keys?
The thief is doing a public service by teaching a lesson to someone too stupid to endanger others by driving a car.
japan has very low crime rates. you couldn't pull this off in other countries.
They did that in Inception and I was like "Whoa, that's how I'm carjacking from now on."
That word doesn't exist
Quit linking shitty dictionaries.
My SO is Japanese, and I asked her if she's ever heard of the phrase.
She said she had, and then proceeded to head-but the crap out of me to explain the word ごっつん。
Okay, I won't remember this.
Not only because I'm drink
Hi drink.
Dad's here.
Shit, I thought he went out to get cigarettes
That's some GTA shit.
Ah yes, the ol' crashy stealy.
Here in Newark, NJ we call that "car jacking". >:)
Damn that's long enough
that's genius, gonna use this next time I need a new car.
In Bird Person culture, this is what is known as a "dick move".
Even doing grand theft auto Japanese do it gently
the people over at r/DoesNotTranslate will love this!
I feel like I'm Japan a high school student is finding ridiculous "words" on urban dictionary and making it seem like they're in common use in America.
Every time I ask my Japanese wife what something crazy is, she has no idea. It's not like they're common use.
I'm just here to talk about how great the website is. Jisho.org has really evolved ~
Sounds like Leo dicaprio in inception
The word looks like the act!
...that's probably the point, right?
No, no it's not.