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Originally Posted by yajin
guess what "86-239" implies in Japanese?!
the number in the plate on the 86.
Grateful to Hachi-Roku.
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That's actually not that far off, but its is a fun play on how Japanese works. If you break down the numbers and read them in Japanese, you get "hachi roku ni san kyu." The first part everyone knows (hachi roku) and the second part is a fun play on words and sounds. Ni is a participle in Japanese and doesn't have a real direct translation in English, and if you read san kyu (three nine) quickly, it sounds like "thank you."
So, the full phrase would be "thank you, hachi roku."
Using numbers to represent full phrases is fairly common in Asian languages today, from texting to web site URLs.
