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12 Jul 2018
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Mustard on my turnips, please.
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I don’t understand why Greg cried it.
Mustard on my turnips, please.
What does it mean?
I don’t understand why Greg cried it.
What does it mean?
I don’t understand why Greg cried it.
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- English (US)
It has no true meaning. The paragraph above explains that his dream was crazy and made no sense so him asking for mustard on his turnips is random and makes the dream even weirder.
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Like it says, his dream was "bonkers" (crazy and didn't make sense).
So what he yelled in the dream was some random phrase that doesn't make much sense.
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It means “Please put mustard on my turnips”
Another example: “Ketchup on my hotdog please” (= please put ketchup on my hotdog)
You’re not supposed to understand why Greg said that, because he said his dream was ‘bonkers’ - it’s not supposed to make sense 😂
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"Mustard" is a yellow sauce commonly put on hot dogs, and not on "turnips" which are a type of vegetable that mustard is not usually combined with. That is the joke here. In America we often have a very nonsensical type of humor, so I understand why you would be confused. As for the other stuff highlighted:
"Decode" roughly equals 翻訳する
"Bonkers" = 狂った
"Bad call" = 悪い判断
Pushed Over The Edge means given more than he could handle
"Cannibal" = 食堂
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Thank you so much 😊
I thought cannibal means 人喰い in Japanese!
I come up with the word “ハンニバル” but I haven’t watched the movie😖
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@aozora You're probably right. I'm not fluent in Japanese, and have to work off Google translate.
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@aozora No problem. 😊 Diary of a Wimpy Kid is such a good book series.
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