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The Japanese Have a Word for It! - Javizy - 2011-04-11

Jarvik7 Wrote:When is the last time you heard someone say cowabunga?

From a 外人 who hasn't returned to the States for 15 years?

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - pudding cat - 2011-04-11

Tzadeck Wrote:About the マグロ女, yeah, she used the full phrase. She actually was hitting on one of my friends from that night on, who eventually stopped talking to her because she was completely crazy.

She hit on him whilst calling herself マグロ女? That sounds like a terrible strategy...

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - jcdietz03 - 2011-04-11

腹切
切腹
Maybe I should see my psychologist after posting this...
I don't think we have these in English.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - fakewookie - 2011-04-11

Javizy Wrote:There are plenty of words like 樹齢, 入浴 etc that made me wonder if you actually need a dedicated word for something so specific. As for funny ones, 精通 usually means to have knowledge of something, but 大辞林 has a second usage 「男子が初めて精液を出す表現」.

I think it's because they've been imported as they are from Chinese. Not sure what's strange about 入浴 though?

Funny (or sad) story about that word (or actually, 入浴剤) - for the longest time, I was wondering what the hell a ニューヨークざい is.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - kapalama - 2011-04-11

Tzadeck Wrote:About the マグロ女, yeah, she used the full phrase. She actually was hitting on one of my friends from that night on, who eventually stopped talking to her because she was completely crazy.

I wonder if it is always used as マグロ女, and I have just been taking the 女 off of it, in my head. Maybe all the Japanese attach the 女 to it, and I just have been leaving it off. (No way to check, now, on what I heard six years ago. Either way it is a common as heck expression. I do know I have heard it used for guys too, when a girl was complaining about having to do all the work.

Another expression that is really descriptive but not apparently as well known 穴兄弟, (hole brothers) in reference to two guys who have slept with the same girl. Everyone (male and female) I knew knew it and used it laughingly, but in checking with other Japanese recently some know it, some don't. I wonder if it came from some TV show or comedian that was popular at that time I was first hearing it.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - jettyke - 2011-04-11

kapalama Wrote:. I do know I have heard it used for guys too, when a girl was complaining about having to do all the work.

Is this only used when talking about sexual "work" ?

BTW 干物女　and 干物男　are also quite equivalent. (from "hotaru no hikari")

It's to resemble a person who is lazy, kinda dirty and doesn't do anything useful.

A "dried thing person"

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - pudding cat - 2011-04-11

kapalama Wrote:Another expression that is really descriptive but not apparently as well known 穴兄弟, (hole brothers) in reference to two guys who have slept with the same girl. Everyone (male and female) I knew knew it and used it laughingly, but in checking with other Japanese recently some know it, some don't. I wonder if it came from some TV show or comedian that was popular at that time I was first hearing it.

That reminds me of this clip from Scrubs

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - yudantaiteki - 2011-04-11

You shouldn't get the idea that Japanese is unique in having these strange words, though. Any language has seemingly bizarre words.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - Javizy - 2011-04-11

I was reminded of a few others by the words above.

素人童貞 guy who's never slept with a non-prostitute
ヤラハタ（やらずに二十歳）20+ virgin
魔法使い 30+ virgin

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - jettyke - 2011-04-11

Javizy Wrote:魔法使い 30+ virgin

This is the strangest one I can think of. What's the logic behind it?

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - thecite - 2011-04-11

売れ残り - Single woman past prime marriage age. Very gratifying.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - quincy - 2011-04-11

サクラ - a girl in a bar/club that gets you to buy her a drink then leaves. I actually couldn't think of an English equivalent to this but I feel like there should be one.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - dizmox - 2011-04-11

jettyke Wrote:
Javizy Wrote:魔法使い 30+ virgin
This is the strangest one I can think of. What's the logic behind it?

When you turn 30 you become one.

妖精 for the girlies.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - jettyke - 2011-04-11

dizmox Wrote:
jettyke Wrote:
Javizy Wrote:魔法使い 30+ virgin
This is the strangest one I can think of. What's the logic behind it?
When you turn 30 you become one.

妖精 for the girlies.

aah, okay I see.

So if a japanese person has sex after 30, he/she looses her/his superpowers.

...what? Big Grin

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - pudding cat - 2011-04-11

Javizy Wrote:魔法使い 30+ virgin

This thread is funny Smile

http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/3557887.html

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - Tzadeck - 2011-04-11

pudding cat Wrote:
Tzadeck Wrote:About the マグロ女, yeah, she used the full phrase. She actually was hitting on one of my friends from that night on, who eventually stopped talking to her because she was completely crazy.
She hit on him whilst calling herself マグロ女? That sounds like a terrible strategy...

She had a lot of weird strategies. They second time she went out with him she went to his place at the end of the night. She made out with him and all that, but wouldn't do anything sexual. Then we he gave up she asked "Are you going to rape me?" (I.e., she wanted him to pretend. He didn't--they never slept together.)

And that was that start of four or five very strange stories he told me about her.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - Tzadeck - 2011-04-11

kapalama Wrote:I wonder if it is always used as マグロ女, and I have just been taking the 女 off of it, in my head. Maybe all the Japanese attach the 女 to it, and I just have been leaving it off. (No way to check, now, on what I heard six years ago. Either way it is a common as heck expression. I do know I have heard it used for guys too, when a girl was complaining about having to do all the work.

Another expression that is really descriptive but not apparently as well known 穴兄弟, (hole brothers) in reference to two guys who have slept with the same girl. Everyone (male and female) I knew knew it and used it laughingly, but in checking with other Japanese recently some know it, some don't. I wonder if it came from some TV show or comedian that was popular at that time I was first hearing it.

Not sure, I only heard it that one time.

Btw, is that said　あなきょうだい?

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - Ryuujin27 - 2011-04-11

Jarvik7 Wrote:You are mistaking use with heard of.

When is the last time you heard someone say cowabunga?

I was playing Turtles in Time on the SNES last week, so pretty recently.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - thecite - 2011-04-11

Ryuujin27 Wrote:
Jarvik7 Wrote:You are mistaking use with heard of.

When is the last time you heard someone say cowabunga?
I was playing Turtles in Time on the SNES last week, so pretty recently.

lol, I was waiting for someone to make a quip like that.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - Reviewed - 2011-04-11

Double whammy:

援助交際 (abv. 援交)

1: dating with compensation (payments, financial support, etc.);
2: schoolgirl prostitution

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - JimmySeal - 2011-04-11

Reviewed Wrote:1: dating with compensation (payments, financial support, etc.);
2: schoolgirl prostitution

1. here is pretty much just a euphemistic way of expressing 2.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - aphasiac - 2011-04-12

JimmySeal Wrote:
Reviewed Wrote:1: dating with compensation (payments, financial support, etc.);
2: schoolgirl prostitution
1. here is pretty much just a euphemistic way of expressing 2.

1. Is actually a euphemistic way of expressing ALL dating between a man and woman in the West. Cynical, moi? :/

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - kapalama - 2011-04-12

Tzadeck Wrote:Btw, is that said　あなきょうだい?

Yes sorry, about that it is あなきょうだい. Very common expression where I worked, because the same (over 30 unmarried women) would come back again and again, and gradually worked their way through the staff, making most of the staff 穴兄弟 many times over. I heard it on TV (I think London Boots used it), but it seems to 死語 now, as they say.

I of course remain pure as the day I was born in all ways, and thus unrelated.

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - kapalama - 2011-04-12

JimmySeal Wrote:
Reviewed Wrote:1: dating with compensation (payments, financial support, etc.);
2: schoolgirl prostitution
1. here is pretty much just a euphemistic way of expressing 2.

I of course thought for the longest time that that was Angel Kousai (Angel Exchange).

The Japanese Have a Word for It! - dizmox - 2011-04-12

kapalama Wrote:
Tzadeck Wrote:Btw, is that said　あなきょうだい?
Yes sorry, about that it is あなきょうだい. Very common expression where I worked, because the same (over 30 unmarried women) would come back again and again, and gradually worked their way through the staff, making most of the staff 穴兄弟 many times over. I heard it on TV (I think London Boots used it), but it seems to 死語 now, as they say.

I of course remain pure as the day I was born in all ways, and thus unrelated.

Where did you work? A host club? :?