Hi, I'm Yu! How was your life during school festival? Did you enjoy it?
Today, as I said in the title, I'll talk about Slang.
Firstly, I'll summarize the lecture.
Language is living thing and we can't stop language from changing. Slang gives users a sense of belonging to the group. Slang is used by everyone now. When we use slang, we can shows we are part of culture, share social and emotional experiences, and it's fun, humorous and creative.
Next, I'll list up three example of Japanese slang.
1. KY
This is a little old word. It came into fashon in 2007 and was awarded 'word of the year', so it was prevailed by such a media as TV. This is an abbreviation of 'Kuuki ga Yomenai', in English 'he or she isn't sensitive to situations'.
2. gugu-ru(ググる)
This means searching for something by using google. 'Gugu' is abbreviation of 'google' and 'ru' is a part of verb, so it is used for verb. For example, when someone asks a question on a BBS without searching it by himself, others say to him, "gugure."
3. oshi-men(推しメン)
This means a menber who someone likes or supports in a girl's idol group such as AKB48. It is the abbreviation of 'oshiteru member(推してるメンバー). 'Oshiteru' means 'support or like'.'For example, his oshi-men is Oshima Yuko. It is often used by people who like AKB48.
I think slangs are often abbreviation of words. Therefore they have nice rings of them and it is fun for us to use them. That's why we are curious to use slangs.
ググる is a very good example, Yu! It's also an English slang, right? People say "google" as a verb, like, "I have to google it." I like it because it's way shorter than saying "I have to search it with google."
ReplyDeleteActually the expression is ググるする, isn't it? The point is that the noun is made into a verb. Japanese do that with a lot of English words - getする、etc.
ReplyDeleteKuuki ga Yomena - this expression I love. I didn't know there was an acronym for it.
Ms. MacGregor
Hi, Yu! I'm Sayuri!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your thinking, we use slangs because they are abbreviated! It's easy to say and to communicate! I always use gugu-ru, but I did'nt know that natives use the word "google" like us, Maki-chan;)