Can someone tell.me what this badge means?

[Henro]

Mystery badge identified by friend who speaks Japanese.

He said: That***8217;s Japanese. Blue tora

The Japanese symbols in photo below come from Google Translate of "Blue Tora"

Dave

That is the literal translation of buru (blue), but not actually the meaning in this case in my opinion... The first two katakana do sound out as the Japanese translation of Blue, but does that make sense on an orange tractor? Perhaps it would on a blue tractor...

By the way, not sure if your friend is a native speaker of Japanese, but my wife is... She specifically told me it does not mean the color blue in this case.

And when is the last time any of us has seen a blue tiger?

Ediit: I should add I chose the adjective "Roaring". Could be energetic or active or something like that. But roaring tiger just sounded appropriate in this case...

 

[JohnDB]

If you google Kubota Tiger site:.jp you get images of a B6100 with an orange rotary hoe attachment... and advertised as "actual work goods! Kubota B6001bru tiger tractor 4 wheel drive 4WD diesel 3 cylinder 12 horse power RK1000 rotary width approximately 100cm".

So maybe Bru, not Buru?

Is that the same badge on the front?

 

[GeoHorn]

It more-accurately reads “. BRUE TIGEL”.

And the movie was improperly pronounced “TOLA TOLA TOLA”

 

[Henro]

It more-accurately reads ***8220;. BRUE TIGEL***8221;.

And the movie was improperly pronounced ***8220;TOLA TOLA TOLA***8221;

Not to start a pi$$ing contest, but you are absolutely wrong about the Brue Tigel comment. It is absolutely BuRu. Check with a native speaker if you doubt this. Bru is not conventional Japanese Romanji, as the language is for the most part syllables that include vowels.

And where your tigle comes from heaven knows. It is without a doubt Tora (pronounced tola), which means tiger. Could be a typo on your part?

And you are pretty much absolutely wrong about the improper pronunciation of Tora, Tora, Tora. The fact is that when Japanese language is represented in the western alphabet, R is pronounced (by the Japanese ) as we would pronounce a L. The Japanese do pronounce Tora, Tora, Tora as we would Tola, Tola, tola.

Not sure where you are coming from, but after living and working in Japan for six years, and speaking Japanese relatively well, and graduating from a Japanese university (albeit the international side, where studies aside from language were in English) I think it would be wise to get one's facts straight.

But who cares really?

Edit: As an aside, how do you think Japanese people that are not that fluent in English pronounce "fried rice"? Invariably 99.9% of the time they say "fried lice". Just the way it is...

 

[Dave_eng]

I never thought my post about the badge translation would get so serious..... it is time to end the discussion on a meaning less topic!!!

Dave

 

[SidecarFlip]

Not to start a pi$$ing contest, but you are absolutely wrong about the Brue Tigel comment. It is absolutely BuRu. Check with a native speaker if you doubt this. Bru is not conventional Japanese Romanji, as the language is for the most part syllables that include vowels.

And where your tigle comes from heaven knows. It is without a doubt Tora (pronounced tola), which means tiger. Could be a type on your part?

And you are pretty much absolutely wrong about the improper pronunciation of Tora, Tora, Tora. The fact is that when Japanese language is represented in the western alphabet, R is pronounced (by the Japanese ) as we would pronounce a L. The Japanese do pronounce Tora, Tora, Tora as we would Tola, Tola, tola.

Not sure where you are coming from, but after living and working in Japan for six years, and speaking Japanese relatively well, and graduating from a Japanese university (albeit the international side, where studies aside from language were in English) I think it would be wise to get one's facts straight.

But who cares really?

Of course there are other qualifying aspects we won't allude to here as well, Right Henro?......

Sure you guys don't mean Toga party??? Toga-Toga, John Belushi's call to fame...

 

[Henro]

I never thought my post about the badge translation would get so serious..... it is time to end the discussion on a meaning less topic!!!

Dave

Amen to that!

Good on you Dave!

 

[SidecarFlip]

I never thought my post about the badge translation would get so serious..... it is time to end the discussion on a meaning less topic!!!

Dave

Amazing what a little virus and being cooped up does to people, isn't it?

 

[Henro]

Henro, you need to get a sense-of-humor... so you can recognize when someone is kidding!

Beginning in 1971, I taught numerous Japanese flight students from student through Airline Transport ratings, most of whom could only READ basic English and not speak or understand the spoken English for many weeks after beginning ground school classes. Fifteen of them were employed by JAL immediately upon completing my courses. Three were chosen for instructors at the Self Defense Forces. Perhaps some readers might be impressed with your Japanese experiences but having had the job of teaching English as well as flight lessons to non-English-speakng Japanese, I am not.

What I posted earlier was a JOKE!

Sorry, I was about to delete that post, as reflecting on it I did not like the tone of my response, but I guess since it has been quoted that will not work now.

Oh well...

 

[SidecarFlip]

While we are on the subject, I'm curious about why Kubota puts rather cryptic stuff on the cap that covers the steering wheel nut on their tractors and why it changes from model to model.

Case in point, I have a 2002 M9 and a 2004 M9 and each have a different, distinct steering wheel cap. One looks like a checkers board, the other lookes like a starburst. Why not a Kubota logo on the steering wheel, it's the first thing you see when you sit in the seat.

Curious about that, always have been. Seems strange to me there is no uniform logo.

 

[GeoHorn]

I fixed that for you Henro. I guess I could have been a bit more kind myself.
(Gomen ne)