I'm Noriko. Today's topic is slang.
Firstly, I sum up lecture 1 in CONTEMPORARY TOPICS.
Slang is informal language associated with particular groups. It's used by everyone in mainly order to construct their identity. Using slang has benefits- making you desirable, showing mastery, sharing social & emotional experience, and giving you fun. It's no longer taboo.
Secondly, I pick up Japanese 3 slang.
1. Disru
2. Shasharu
3. Ikumen
Meaning
1. despising, abusing, and running down other people or things
2. suggesting or acting positively in the situation he shouldn't do so. It's used to despise him.
3. men who are willing to raise up their babies.
Who uses
1. young people
2. young people
3. 20-30s people
How it came
1. "Dis" is English prefix which shows denial. "Ru" makes a word verb in Japanese.
2. It's divided into "shasha"and "ru". "Shasha" came from "shasharideru", which is the old Japanese and has same meaning as "shasharu". "Ru" makes the word verb.
3. It's divided into "iku" and "men". "Iku" is 育 which means raise up something. "Men" is men.
Why they're used
1. It's easy to say. And it's not direct expression. So it prevents people from feeling heavily when they talk about the experience being despised.
2. The sound is comfortable to say.
3. The society requires men to be Ikumen. So media made it to input this word into people's brain. The more spread this word, the more opportunity increase for people to think about men's raising babies. It results in increasing a number of "Ikumen".
Noriko, this is Ms. MacGregor. It was hard to read your post in the way you divided it into sections. Better to discuss the examples completely. Do you think the word Ikumen made it fashionable and therefore desirable to help bring up their children? I would like to see examples of #1 and #2 because I really don't understand what they mean and how they are used.
ReplyDeleteHi this is Kotaro.
ReplyDeleteI always use disru in situations. Disru used to only used among people who sing rap songs. When a singer sings bad song about other singer,(disru) the singer sings back bad song to that singer who sang dis-song(answer song)