When I lived in Japan, my Baiko girls would always use the phrase "part-time job" in their broken English sentences:
Funny how that one poorly pronounced phrase worked in future + past tenses!Me: What are your plans for this weekend?
Hiroko: Part-time job.
Me: What did you do last weekend?
Mayumi: Part-time job.
In Japanese, another word used for "job" is "arbito," from the Dutch/German arbeit. Yes, as in "Arbeit macht frei," the ever popular phrase emblazoned above death camps throughout central Europe during the early + mid-1940s. I often imagined my gaggle of gakkusei quacking out the Nazi slogan in their worse English, much like the Aflac duck: "arubaito mekku furi." Work make you free, or, perhaps more insightfully, work make you flee.
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