東京サラダボウル PR動画 - Tokyo Salad Bowl PR video
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Effervescent young woman detective inadvertently solves crimes that stump the police department big shots. Don't ask how someone so young and bubbly has become a detective. She has enlisted (dragooned) the support of the most stone faced man in the world. He used to be a detective but something bad happened and now he works as an interpreter. He's seen it all and he knows that most everybody is lying most of the time. And oh yeah, our girl has green hair and likes to eat the weirdest food she can find. The first show has her eating scorpions on a stick and ox penis stew and she apparently enjoys it all. Very entertaining.
Interpreting languages is a recurring theme. Slang causes all kinds of problems. Our interpreter used to frequent a bar and his visits there would keep him apprised of Chinese slang. But he stops going and now he's no longer up-to-speed on the current slang, which means he has to fall back on literal translation and you know that isn't going to go well.
In another episode we hear that Vietnam uses Kanji characters for peoples names, though the pronunciation is completely different. A couple of guys working in a nursing home use the same characters for their names, but the Vietnamese guy is called Tien and the Japanese man is called Susumu.
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