{"id":40353,"date":"2016-10-07T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=40353"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:57:42","slug":"wit-life-306-%e6%89%93%e3%81%a1%e8%a8%80%e8%91%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/07\/wit-life-306-%e6%89%93%e3%81%a1%e8%a8%80%e8%91%89\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #306: \u6253\u3061\u8a00\u8449"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/wit-life\/\">WIT Life<\/a> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacysmith.webs.com\/\">Stacy Smith<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">Kumamo<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.kumamoto.jp\/english\/list.html\">to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with h<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>er<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> own obse<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>rv<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>atio<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>ns<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was in Japan on business for most of September, and while there I caught up on dramas, variety shows and news programs.\u00a0 One special feature I saw talked about recent trends in \u6253\u3061\u8a00\u8449 (<em>uchi kotoba<\/em>) or Internet slang that was born from cell phone communication.\u00a0 For example, perhaps the most well known <em>uchi kotoba<\/em> is \u3042\u3051\u304a\u3081 (<em>ake ome<\/em>), taking the place of the more formal \u660e\u3051\u307e\u3057\u3066\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059 (<em>Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu<\/em>) or Happy New Year.\u00a0 Such language is said to be \u5185\u8f2a (uchiwa) or inner circle, and knowing how to use it indicates you are part of a group.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cnv\">Some new incarnations that I found interesting were \u3088\u304d\u3088\u304d (<em>yoki yoki<\/em>) for \u3044\u3044\u3088 \uff08<em>ii yo<\/em>), or &#8220;Sure\/That&#8217;s fine.&#8221;\u00a0 It actually reminded me of the Kumamoto-ben \u3088\u304b\u3088\u304b (<em>yoka yoka<\/em>) with the same meaning, which I would hear often while living there on JET.\u00a0 One abbreviation I liked was \u308a or \u308a\u3087 (<em>ri<\/em> or <em>ryo<\/em>), both short for \u4e86\u89e3 (<em>Ryokai<\/em>) or &#8220;Understood\/Gotcha.&#8221;\u00a0 Another way of conveying a similar sentiment is \u304a\u3051 (Oke) for &#8220;Ok,&#8221; though this doesn&#8217;t seem to make it easier to write.\u00a0 <\/span>These <em>uchi kotoba<\/em> are constantly evolving, and who knows how far they will go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations. I was in Japan on business for most of September, and while there I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,1,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-uncategorized","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-auR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40381,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40353\/revisions\/40381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}