Archive for 'Slang'
Gacha, Our Life Posted by eriko1 on Mar 7, 2022
If you have been to Japan, you might have seen Gachapon. It is also known as gacha, gashapon, or gachagacha. Gacha is a name trademarked by Takara Tomy A.R.T., while Gachapon/gashapon are names trademarked by Bandai. The general name for this is capsule toy – not very exciting! Whatever the names are, they refer to…
The Dictionary as a Mirror of Time Posted by eriko1 on Oct 16, 2021
One of the largest Japanese dictionaries (辞書 jisho) is published from Sanseido. It is the most popular one. It was first published in 1960, and it has been edited periodically to add or delete words. The dictionary was updated this year after 8 years. Language is alive and it is changing all the time whether…
Variety Makes Life Richer – Writing System Posted by eriko1 on Aug 27, 2021
Like many people in the world, I started playing Animal Crossing New Horizon on a Nintendo Switch that my son had brought back from Kyoto. It was extremely hard to get one in the US or Japan due to the very high demand (需要 jyuyo), so that was great. The great thing about the Switch…
Skater Words hit the National TV Posted by eriko1 on Aug 23, 2021
Tokyo Olympics is over, and Japan has been seeing the COVID-19 number making the record every day. But I am not going to talk about that. I am going to write about a Japanese skateboard commentator that has been attracting many Japanese’s attention in a good way. Skateboard was introduced in the Olympics for the…
Be careful not to be ディスられる by trying to be hip Posted by eriko1 on Mar 24, 2021
In the last blog (Flattening Accents), I wrote about the trend of flattening accents. I am going to list more language trends (トレンドtorendo) among Japanese young people in this blog. Combine English words+ suffix ru バズる （buzz + ru) = to go viral ディスるor disる (disrespect + ru) = to disrespect ググる (google + ru) = to…