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whats some japanese texting slang? or whatever it'd be called. Can't make any friends if I text like a grandma.
Oh I think that’s a tough question! Particularly with keeping up with what slang is considered current, what is out of date (死語)… Plus it depends on the age group you’re speaking to, and also on what online communities you/they hang out in. It might be better off to follow the other person’s lead and see what slang they use.
I’m a bit of a grandma though myself when it comes to text slang. I tend to message both English-speaking friends and Japanese-speaking friends pretty much as I would speak to them in person.
The extent of my commonly used slang is probably:
orz - expresses disappointment (it’s a person kind of slumped on all fours on the floor)
www or 笑 - lol
ようつべ - youtube, it’s easier to type in hiragana because then you don’t have to switch between keyboards
おk - ok
なう - (place)なう = I’m in (place) now, (thing)なう= (thing)しているところ
アップする - to upload
If you want to read up on net slang, imiimiimi is a nice dictionary and their front page has a list of 知っておきたいネット用語 so I would check through those and then look up new slang as you come across it. Naverまとめ and nanapi both have a lot of articles on net slang so they’re good places to check too. I hope that’s helped a bit!
guy annoying his girlfriend with bad ikea puns
i’m actually crying
Imagine Your Otp doing this in ikea
When I'm halfway through a sentence and suddenly realise there is no way out of the grammatical crater I have dug myself
Fucking hell stewart
This is better than every single found footage film I have ever seen.
I have no idea what he’s saying but I’m laughing anyways because he’s so damn passionate about it. Also the craptions are awful. More awful than usual.
[A photo of a man in a coat posed in front of a waterfall. Text above reads, “This is my cousin Oskaar”. Text below reads, “I told him WA is about to vote on daylight savings.”]
[Another photo of Oskaar holding a wine bottle in one hand. Text below reads, “And that most people would vote against it.”]
[Text onscreen reads, “About a week later Oskaar sent me this”.]
[Oskaar walks onscreen, turns, waves at the camera. It’s dark; he’s the only thing visible. He’s wearing a heavy coat, a scarf, and mittens.]
Hi Dave! Hi! In Australia! It’s Oskaar here! In Iceland! I got your email the other day! IT MADE ME REALLY FUCKING ANGRY! You know I get three hours of sunlight per day! Every day, three hours! And you, are arguing about one hour!
Guess what time it is! Look around! It’s a beautiful day! In sunny Reykjavik! [Oskaar pulls up his sleeve to show the camera his watch] At—twenty minutes past three o'clock!
[Jump-cut; Oskaar is standing again at a distance from the camera] Now—I have— [Camera pans suddenly up to look at the black sky]
[Jump cut; Oskaar’s face is close to the camera now, he’s adjusting it on its tripod] [Oskaar mutters, possibly in Icelandic, or possibly the captioner just can’t understand what he’s saying] Sorry Dave! My—my—my camera is broken!
[Jump-cut; Oskaar is standing again at a distance from the camera] I have to sit! for two hours! in front of ultra-violet light! That’s so, to help my mind and my skins, from being healthy! I drink this, lýsi, do you know what lýsi is? Lýsi is oil from fish, I drink fish shits two times per day! This stops me from being funny in the head! It’s called, it’s called… sk— [Oskaar looks to the left, like something’s distracted him offscreen?]
[Jump-cut; Oskaar is in the same position as in the last shot, looking back at the camera] Hey there, Dave, I want you to do this for me. I want you to show everybody in your silly city some things that I do in my life. I’ll take you for a journey, come with me.
[Jump-cut. Oskaar is not in-frame; the camera is being carried. Are we looking at the ground, seeing the sidewalk pass by as Oskaar walks? Or are we looking straight ahead? It’s too dark to tell.] Uh, this is what I do every day after I… come home from work, I take my dog for a walk in this beautiful park here, can you see? No, you can’t see, cos it’s fucking too dark. [You can hear the dog breathing in the background] Hey, you haven’t seen my dog, have you? Stalone, you know, Stalone, like the Cliffhanger movies. Stalone! Hang on. Stalone! Stalone!
[Jump-cut; the camera is back on its tripod. Oskaar is sitting on a bench, with a tree just visible in the background, hardly more than a shadow. The camera starts panning back to aim at the sky again. Oskaar gets up to catch it.] Oh shit—
[A brief shot of the empty bench, and then a close-up of Oskaar’s face as he films himself while walking.] Eh, hey. Now I’m going on a journey to one of our famous beaches here in Iceland. [Oskaar looks at his feet] Auuugh! Fucking dog shi—
[Jump-cut; Oskaar is standing in front of the ocean] I’m in my Icelandic beach! Hey Dave! [Hops on one foot while trying to remove his shoe] Let’s go and have a swim with me!
[Oskaar dips a toe in the water] Ah-ha-ha-haaaa! [Oskaar hops back toward the camera] I wouldn’t swim in that if you fucking paid me million dollars! If I could have your hour I would rip it from your, your hands, before you! Be heroes! You are be heroes! Save, save your daylight! Save it! Don’t let it run away in front of your face!
[Jump-cut; Oskaar’s face is close to the camera.] Think about me, Dave. Tell your friends. Hey—Fucking battery!
[Image flickers out. Text is displayed: "And I never did see Stalone.“ Audio-only, a dog is yipping under Oskaar’s voice:] Stalone! Come here now, you stupid dog!
Yay! Thank you so much! I seriously thought he was saying lychee which made no sense because that had nothing to do with fish at all!
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For Enemies…
Last night I woke up from a dream because I saw someone I wanted to avoid. I disliked them so much that I was willing to bring their entire universe to an end rather than talk to them.
Dog: I AM SORRY BABY HUMAN! DO NOT CRY ANYMORE! i SHALL BRING YOU MORE TOYS
The cutest thing ever.
is no one gonna mention how it gives the kid a playstation controller?
like ‘here small human, this makes the big humans happy. i am sorry please stop crying’
dogs are so pure like ???????
It´s finally time for Knitwear <3 i loooove autumn!!!
Japan Has Invented Sushi Cupcakes, And Your Dreams Are Now Reality
After experiencing sushirritos, we thought we’d seen the height of sushi innovation.How wrong we were.
See how to make all of the different sushi cupcakes here.
2015 Read Harder Challenge - 3
So I’ve just finished reading Brown Girl Dreaming and while it took me longer than I thought it would considering it’s a book of relatively short poems, I can say I really enjoyed it, though it was pretty slow in getting started. The main character Jackie became more and more relate-able as the book progressed, and I love that the book is simultaneously about race and about narratives and experiences that transcend race.
I also forgot to mention that in between readings of Brown Girl Dreaming I managed to cross off the YA prompt with John Green’s Looking for Alaska-- a book that I have been recommended at least a dozen times before. While I can say I’m usually a John Green fan, and while I definitely tore through Looking for Alaskasometimes I find myself getting frustrated with how forcefully quirky some of his characters are. But the book manages to handle teenage grief in a very real way, and in a way that struck particularly close to home for me as someone who has lost a close friend in a similar way, and I think that that in and of itself makes the book worth reading.
The next prompt I plan on tackling is the short story prompt. To which my answer is Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce, which also happens to have been published this year (hey, I have to tick off as many of these boxes as possible before the end of the year somehow, right?). I don’t know much about the collection yet, but it’s been recommended to me by some good friends, so I’m excited to check it out.
If you have any good recommendations for the rest of the prompts, let me know.
A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65
A collection of short stories (either by one person or an anthology by many people)
A book published by an indie press
A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ
A book by a person whose gender is different from your own
A book that takes place in Asia
A book by an author from Africa
A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.)
A microhistory
A YA novel
A sci-fi novel
A romance novel
A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
A book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
An audiobook
A collection of poetry
A book that someone else has recommended to you
A book that was originally published in another language
A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind (Hi, have you met Panels?)
A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over)
A book published before 1850
A book published this year
A self-improvement book (can be traditionally or non-traditionally considered “self-improvement”)
Shyla Hardwick - “Worms” (WoWPS 2014)
“The boy’s blood was red. It looked like wet paint. On average, it takes paint three days to dry.” Performing during the Lit Slam at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!
Ginza Tokyo by Tomoaki Saito Via Flickr: October 2014