klingon 10 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 (For fun, right) Mine must go to "gambarimasu" - doesn't it lose some of it's meaning by being used soooo much. Link to post Share on other sites
mikazooki 0 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 have u been around for summer? it seems people never get tired of atsui ne. like no sh1t sherlock, , i needed reminding cos id forgotten. (sorry, im grumpy today) Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 by women: "so desu neeeeee" by men: "eeee eeee eeee eeee eeee" perhaps not the most used, but the most annoying when japanese men are on the phone and they, i suspect, are saying "ee" repeatedly to perhaps demonstrate that they are listening. It ends up sounding like a guttural droning noise that I don't know how to type. Come to think of it, oyshii (spelling? ... delicious) is well over used on tv. My Japanese teacher tells me it is the only adjective to describe food that I really like. I suppose in English there are not many adjectives that describe flavour, but that doesn't mean I can't say "this is amazing, it tastes really really good". It seems that there is a certain formula that must be applied when commenting on either food or the weather when in Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 sugoi! samui! atsui! ooshi! nani , nanyatake (osaka ben for "let me think..what was that") anoo na, couple of these classics and you can have a high level conversation. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 too right! I swear that every time i talk to a certain girl at work all she says to me is: "atoo nan de eto ne nani honto dakara ima sugoi ne" even one japanese guy have been known to ask "Junko, what the hell are you trying to say?" Link to post Share on other sites
mikazooki 0 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 well, when i talk to girls all they seem to say is kakko ii. its like the weather. if everyone knows it, why bother to say it? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 They're talking about your clothes. Ganbaru has to be my vote. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 ooh ooh me me!!! I just thought of the most useless overused and consequently meaningless and stupid saying.....otsukare sama deshita. you bend over to pick up a pencil....otsukare you take a squealer in the toilet.....otsukare you sign in at the gym................ostukare students book or sign in for lessons...ostukare You finish anything at all.............ostukare also the said word for exerting yourself, westerners go "uumpf" or "eryagggh" or some other grunt. here the make a word "yoisho" sit down................yoisho stand up ...............yoisho pick up your bag .......yoisho lean over...............yoisho etc etc Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 kawaii!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted April 7, 2003 Share Posted April 7, 2003 How about daijobu? The first time I came to Japan and did a couple of homestays. I get in the car... daijobu? I sneeze... daijobu? I eat some food...daijobu? I am watching tv... daijobu? The same things happen if I spend a day with japanese people, esp older people. But at the same time, maybe its nice that they care. ahhh Link to post Share on other sites
CmWebb 0 Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 For me it has to be ney. Oshii ney, Autsuii ney, Kawaii ney, kowaii ney, so desu ney, so da ney, omshiroii ney, musukashii ney, taihen ney, ney ney ney. I once heard a conversation between four women during hanami season. It went something like this. W1 Kirei ney w2 so desu ney w3 ney w4 ney w1 so ney w2 ney w3 sore wa oshii ney. w4 so desu ney w2 so ney w124 ney Link to post Share on other sites
wakaran 1 Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 Its almost poetic! Link to post Share on other sites
viv&kev 0 Posted April 8, 2003 Share Posted April 8, 2003 So desu ne. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 In Osaka "ne" is often "naa" sou desu ne = sou yon naa naa? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 de saa, ano saa, nanka saa blah blah... kids say it alot and thats ok but when adults especially butt ass ugly chicks who think that they are KAWAII ..... Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderbird2 0 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Oishii and gambarimasu get my vote Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 EEE sugoi ne tsukareta Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 BAACHAN GO! they can talk on the phone for hours before even getting to a subject with any meaning, & half the time just talk about the weather and ie, ie, ie, ie... Link to post Share on other sites
igloo 3 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 baachan are difficult to understand, I have some serious problems with my landlords wife. Can't understand a word Too fast, too local dialect,... Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 11, 2003 Share Posted April 11, 2003 Gambarimasu. People say it even when they do not have the slightest intention to "do their best". I often wonder how Japanese actually know when it is really meant of not. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 How about maji de. I was told when I first started studying that if I learned that I could get through just about any Japanese conversation. For some reason it still makes people laugh when I give a big "maji de???" ...maybe I am saying it wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 Obachans like to giggle and say aaahh sou ka. at least in kansai, They are quite pushy too. Last week one elbowed a young student of mine in the head just to get by. The student was only 6 and was scared sh..less Link to post Share on other sites
barok 0 Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 yoroshiku onegaishimasu - when you meet someone - but you gotta repeat it at least 3 times yoroshiku onegaishimasu - when you say goodbye to someone - again repeat at least twice. iisho - (sp?) - the sound of exerting one`s self arigato gozaimasu - at least 7 times when you are leaving any conbini, restaurant, or whatever wakarimashita - long and nasal and drawn out - gives me the crawls and yeah . . . otsukare - after you do anything - really - I`m not that exhausted. now here`s my super pet peeve - my new boss is a Canadian woman who has become a naturalized citizen, good for her, whatever. She speaks Japanese well, although I still understand everything that she is saying - it`s just that her fluency is there. But even when there are no other Japanese people around she makes a point of saying all of these stupid things over and over and over . . . "iisho" till she is blue in the face Link to post Share on other sites
yunker 0 Posted April 12, 2003 Share Posted April 12, 2003 barok I really think thats what you get if you are totally immersed into another society and another language for a long time, and most of the people around you are Japanese. I know a few people who are like that, but they aren't doing it on purpose - just what they have become! Link to post Share on other sites
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