I'm gonna go all multilingual on your asses...
The Japanese word for 'atmosphere' is 雰囲気, pronounced fun-iki, but for some reason Japanese youth pronounce it fu-inki, or more like fwinki, which is just irritating. Thankfully it's not a common word.

Now...a common word in Japan is when you walk into a shop and you're greeted by the shop staff by 'irashaimase', which is like a honorific way to say 'come in' or 'welcome' or that kind of gesture. Now, everyone who works in the shop will say this to you. Absolutely everyone. Even if you walk 2 metres down the wrong aisle and turn back again, they'll say it again less than 2 seconds later. It's not said in an upbeat or chirpy fashion, it's just droned out like they're forced to say it. After a month of that you just want to slap them, you really do. The only exception to this was one night I went to a 24 hour convenience shop to buy a sandwich, and the guy simply said 'konbanwa', or 'good evening'. The first and only time I've ever been greeted in such a way in a shop in Japan, and it sounded so much more genuine.
( guffguff fuckes your gradeds balls!, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:40, 4 replies)

Racist.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:43, closed)

Lacist.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 20:42, closed)

IRASHAIMASE!!!!
is the single most annoying thing about Japan.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 18:56, closed)

I'm with you there
So annoying - and you just know they don't mean it.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 22:11, closed)