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Konami and 573: They are more obssessed then you know!
 
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0. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:11 pm    Post subject: Konami and 573: They are more obssessed then you know! Reply with quote

http://www.konami.com/usa/contact.shtml

Do a word search for 573 on that page, and see the madness!
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1. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

E9.gif That's great! They're office phone number in Japan ends with 573 E9.gif
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2. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not just that one, but half the phone numbers have 573 in them, and the P.O. Box. That is funny.
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3. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In case someone here didn't know, 573 spelled out in Japanese would be "Go Na Mi"... aka Konami.
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4. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hah, I found it!
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5. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Syxx wrote:
In case someone here didn't know, 573 spelled out in Japanese would be "Go Na Mi"... aka Konami.



^^^^^^

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6. PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wouldn't it be Go Nana San? Unless you want to cut off the extra "na" and replace the "san" with it's counter (For days, things) which is "mistu" and "mikka".

I'm only in Japanese 2 though, so I guess I haven't learned enough to see the correlation.
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7. PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah it's like kind of like a shorthand way of saying the numbers... I'm not really the best one to explain it.

It's kind of like, Kanji is pronounced differently if you use it in different words... kinda like that, that's why 3 would be miinstead of san. Like how the kanji is pronounced as Mitsu in oh.... Mitsubishi... but when you use the shorthand it's just Mi. Eh, kinda weird.
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8. PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

573 == "GONAMI" which is close enough to Konami.

It's a Japanese thing, they like to do stuff with phone numbers based making words with the numbers. Sort of like "1-800-YOU-SUCK".
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