1. Words written in closer spelling [closer pronounciation - additional]
2. definition and explanation
3. examples( in English sentence - additional )
*Note: Information on this page does not intend language accuracy.
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[ Others ] NEW
- Yahoo Auc [yafu oku]
→ Yahoo Auctions
"He earns some of extra money at Yafu Oku."
- Wris ca [riska]
→ wrist cutting. One of the violence upon onself.
It will be diagnosed Wrist Cutting Syndrom if it's persistancy.
(It seems to be said that some of those self injurers do it to realize his/her own existance, others feels ease by doing it when having strong stress or problems in office politics etc.)
- Prof [purofu]
→ Personal profile. Useually used on BBS or online personals.
"Hello, I found your prof so that I descided to write to you."
- Summer Time
→ Daylight Saving Time(DST)
[ Life ]
- My boom → something you are really into, absorbed in, a craze
"You know, Asian fashion stuff is my boom now.
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"I am a World cup level football fan, so football has been my boom until Japan lost."
- Pro wrestle [Pro resu] → professional wrestling
- Love Love [ rubu rubu ] → Reciprocal love
How is it going with him? Oh, it's love love!
- Two shot → couple (a man and a woman)
Hey, this place is full of two shots!
- Comike, Comiket (comic market) →
Comic festival which is held by comic(manga) or cartoon (anime)comic,
and TV game fans.
Groups of fans sell their own magazines other collective
merchandiseat booths. Costume players attend etc.
Usually held in Tokyo twice a year.
- Cos pre (costume play) →
1) impersonating(masquerading) Animation hero's, comic or
game character at an event such as a comiket.
2) in the sex culture, meaning: giving services to male customers from
female staff who is dressed as for example, a nurse, a school student or
even a female police officer.
- Car navi (car navigation) → In car Satellite navigation system
- Jaguzzi → jacuzzi
[ Sex Culture ]
- H [ ecci ] → sex, having sex, lecherous, naughty
"We suddenly got in the mood for H so then we went to a love hotel and had H."
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love ho [ rubu ho ] →love hotel →
Hotel's which provide rooms for couples to have sex who do not have an appropriate or private place to do that.
Accommodation for 2 to 3 hours is roughly priced between 5,00-8,000 yen.
Staying the night is again roughly 8,00-15,000yen.
These Hotels are not conventional hotels where you can stay like in a Holiday Inn.
You may be refused if you try to check in with this in mind.
- Boutique hotel
→
same as a Love hotel. Love hotel's have tended to be renamed to "boutique hotel"
these days. They have various facilities to entertain the guests including Karaoke,
jacuzzi bath, small swimming pool and even TV games.
- Soap land →
A kind of adult entertainment shop(sex trade shop) that provides sexual services
by female staff
- Pinsaro → pink salon →
a pub or bar providing sexual services for male customers
[ Japanese love abbreviated words! ]
- Succhi →stewardess (female flight attendant)
- High (high tension) →being excited, being hyper
- Love come [ rabu kome ] → Love comedy → Romantic comedy
- Photosho → Adobe® Photoshop® (An image-editing software by Adobe Systems)
- Meru Maga → Mail Magazine → E-mail updates
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[ Office and other confusing words ]
Who can guess what they mean!!
The Japanese school year starts in April and new employees generally
start to work also in April.
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Ri-man[ri:man] →salary man →
business man, male employee
- Salary man → male employee
In general, it means office workers, not executives.
It also indicates a kind of workaholic, stuck at their work
until late.
- Freshers → new employees
In early Spring every year, Department stores sell freshers fashion.
- OL(Office Lady) → female office worker
*Usually not including creative workers such as disigners, copy writers etc.
- Salary man → male employee
In general, it means office workers, not executives.
It also indicates a kind of workaholic, stuck at their work
until late.
- Freeter → job-hopping part-timer
Freeter means a person who doesn't get a stable job.
It is considered because they are not interested in
becoming a salay man / woman who works for a (big/famous) company.
The numbers of freeters is now increasing among the young.
Some of them just get a freeter after graduation thinking
"I'll just be a freeter for a while. I'm gonna think of my future later on".
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Freshers
 A suit in a neutral color with
modest cut
knee-length (or a bit above knee) skirt(---probably got in a department sotre with mam) *Pale colored shirt
A tote in black leather is an evidence of a working woman!
Nuetral colored stocking
Black leather loafers
with thick heels
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- Free → freelance
"I am a graphic designer."
"Oh, who do you work for?"
"I'm free."
- Note → notebook
- Career up → improving one's career
To get more skilled or a higher position
or a better raise .Some working people go to vocational school for career up.
- Sign →signature / autograph
- Mail → E-mail
- Sharpen(sharp pencil) → mechanical peicil
- Mobile[mobail] → to do mobile computing
- Mobiler[mobailer] → person who does mobile computing
(Just 3-4 years ago that implied flaunt.)
[ Computer / Internet ]
- Entame → entertainment (normally used to describe entertainment category of cell phone web site content. )
- Meado/Meruado →mail address → Email address
- Copi-pe> →copy and paste
- Dra-que → Dragn Quest (a computer game software, character design:Akira Toriyama)
- Blind touch → toutch typing (to type without looking at keyboad)
- Thre[sure] → thread on bbs
- Res → responce
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[ Fashion ]
- Cosme → cosmetics
- No sleeve → sleeveless
- One-piece → dress / one-piece dress
- Fragrance → perfume
"What fragrance are you wearing today?"
"It's Estee Lauder's Plasures".
- Neck tie → tie
- Y-shirt → business man's shirt
- Manicure → nail enamel
- Handkarch [ hankachi ] → handkerchief
- Free size → one size fits all
- Chaneler → person who is totally in CHANEL
- Guccier [Guchier] → person who is totally in GUCCI
- Prader →person who is totally in PRADA
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[ Daily life ]
- parasite single → Young single women in their late 20s to early 30s
who still live with their parents. They depend upon their parents for their
basic stability and housing.
This phrase comes from the title of a best-seller book in '99 by
Masahiro Yamada, a socialogist and University professor at Tokyo Gakugei Daigaku.
Although Parasite singles have an income, they choose to remain with their parents and have no intention of engaging in wedlock.
In this book the author describes that this social phenomenon has a large influence
on the Japanese society.
- Non-para → Non parasite single
Non para is defines that young single women (parasite single), who live
on her own, have a career and does not depend on her parents both mentally and financially.
Is this the Japanese version of: 'Singleton'(Helen Fielding, 'Bridget Jone's Diary')?!
- Shape up → to slim by excercise for keeping the health and beauty
- Smart → slim or thin
"This tiny long dress must be pretty good on her as she
is very smart".
- Style → figure, shape
"She has a great style!".
- Looks → feature
"He has nice looks." = He is good looking/handsome
- Tabacco →cigarette
- Coin locker → coin operated locker
- Gas conro → stove / cooker
- Stove → heate
- Casette conro → portable stove
- Mixer → blender
- Hot → hot coffee
- American(coffee) → weak coffee
- Cola → Coke
- Machine [michine] → sewing machine
- Mansion → apartment / condo
This usually means owned with 2-4 rooms with bathroom and kitchen.
It is not as big as the Englsih version of 'mansion'.
- Apart → apartment /flat
It usually means a rented room / house with 1-3 rooms.
- At-home → homy
"It was really at-home atomosphere".
- TV game → video game
- Video deck → video casette recorder(VCR)
- Mania → buff / fanatic
- Trump → cards
- Talent → TV personalities / TV celebrities
- Sales point → selling point
- CM → TV commercial
- Golden week → A concession of holidays from the end of April through
to the beginning of May.
* The 29th of April-- the Greenary day( Empelor Showa's birthday)
*The 3rd of May -- Constitution day
* The 5th of May -- Children's day
*Plus, Satureday and Sunday
*Plus paid holidays (optional)
Golden week consists of the above national holidays and the weekend.
Depending on calendar some people get a whole week day off.
Japanese do not have a long vacation like a typical two week summer
holiday which is common in the West. Japanese call the serial holidays Golden week.
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[ Japanese love abbreviated words! ]
Fast food
- Staba → Starbucks Coffee (originally from Washington, Seattle)
- Mac / Macdo → MacDonald's
Mac\is generally called in and around Tokyo areas, Macdois called in
Western areas such as Osaka, Noagoya etc.
- Kenta → Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Misdo → Mister Dounuts
- Barkin → Barger King
- Convini[conbini] → convenience store
- Familima → Family Mart (convenience sotre)
Computer
- Appli / soft → application soft ware
- Neske → Netscape(Communicator / Navigator)
- Word-pro[Wapro] → word prosessor
- Paso-con → personal computer
- Remo con[Rimo con] → remote control
- No-paso(Note paso con) → Lap top computer
- Resisto → resistoration as an user for an application soft ware
- Sla → slash ' / '
- Netiquette → etiquette/manner on the Internet
- Ge-cen → game center
- Digi-came → digital camera
- Ple-Ste → Play Station (TV Game machine by Sony)
- Pos-Pe → Post Pet (E-mail soft ware that is well-known for a bright
pink-colored teddy bear charactar called 'Momo-chan' by So-net)
Others
- Fri ma → Free market → Flea market
- Yan-Mama → Young Mama (Yankee Mama)
*This describes women who got married in their teens or early twenties.
In some cases these were sometimes shotgun marriages.
In most of these occurrences the phrase 'Yan-Mama' depicts girls who don't like to go to school, nor study, often play truant, smoke and alter their appearances with strong bleached/dyed hair. In the past these kind of young people were dubbed
'Yankee' because of the colour of their bleached hair was likened to that of Westerner.
(Some 'Yankee' boys belonged to Bousouzoku, a motorcycle gang.)
- Auto-by [outo-bai], bike [bai-ku] → motorcycle, motorbike
- Barten → bartender
- Super → super market
- Regi[reji] → cash register
- Mis → mistake
- Rehabili → rehabilitation
- Sec-hara → sexual harasmet
- Ristura[ristora] → restructing
It is usually used for "lay off" for restructing.
"Listen, XXX bank did restra one-third employees yesterday!"
- High-leg → high-cut legs
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[ Don't startle me! ]
- Attack → approach a person of the opposite sex
"I attacked a nice girl in a bar last night".
--He just approached her and tried to ask her for a date but not raped!
- Pick up → pick out / select
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