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When Japanese and English merged to create a new language, “Japanglish” is born. The growing popularity of Japanese ACG and other Japanese pop culture created a new trend among the youths (or it simply appears after an English speaker living in Japan, not speaking English for a year and return to his\/her home). Even if someone who hasn’t studied Japanese at school, probably has heard of Japanese phrases such as “konichiwa”, “sumimasen” or “daijoubu”. Let’s take a look at the lovely language, and how Japanese sees this new combined language.<\/p>\n

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The Harmonious Japanglish<\/h2>\n

It is interesting to see how creative English-speaker is when inventing such fluent combined vocabularies. It sounds so smooth when reading it out loud as its often connected to the same initial consonant or replaced with a rhymed word. Take a look at some of the top picks below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Japanglish<\/strong><\/td>\nEnglish meaning<\/strong><\/td>\nExplanation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Konichiwassup.<\/td>\nHi! What’s up?<\/td>\n“Konichiwa” means “hi” in Japanese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nani the fxxx?<\/td>\nWhat the fxxx?<\/td>\n“Nani” in Japanese means “what”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shinidie.<\/td>\nI want to die.<\/td>\n“Shinitie” in Japanese means \u00a0“I want to die”, and “tie” rhymes with “die”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yamekudastop.<\/td>\nPlease stop.<\/td>\nThe end of the original Japanese phrase “yametekudasai” was replaced by “stop”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chotto a minute.<\/td>\nJust a minute.<\/td>\nCombination of “chotto mate” in Japanese and “just a minute”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daijouokay.<\/td>\nNo problem.<\/td>\nCombination of “daijoubu” in Japanese and “okay”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dareka help me.<\/td>\nSomeone please help me.<\/td>\nReplaced the word “someone” with “dareka” in Japanese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Doushite is this happening?<\/td>\nWhy is this happening?<\/td>\n“Doushite” means why in Japanese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Urushup up.<\/td>\nShut up.<\/td>\nCombination of “urusai” (annoying in Japanese) and “shut up”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gomannasorry.<\/td>\nSorry.<\/td>\nCombination of “sorry” and “gomennasai” in Japanese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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You may find other interesting terms and try to guess the meaning!<\/h2>\n
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imagine if anitwt used japanglish pic.twitter.com\/YLKUGFajn7<\/a><\/p>\n

— lai (@naruutowo) March 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n