Here’s some more interesting Japanese for you.<\/p>\n
Say someone wrote you an email, and, being the dilligent Japanese language student you are, you’ve just been too busy practising your kanji to write back to them. When you finally emerge from under piles of practice sheets covered in 21-stroke mini-nightmares, you go to reply to the email, but you feel bad for taking so long to get back to the person. What do you say in this case?<\/p>\n
\u8fd4\u4e8b\u304c\u9045\u304f\u306a\u308a\u3001\u7533\u3057\u8a33\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3000\uff08\u3078\u3093\u3058\u304c\u304a\u305d\u304f\u306d\u308a\u3001\u3082\u3046\u3057\u308f\u3051\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u305b\u3093\uff09 is perfectly acceptable, if very polite.<\/p>\n
If it’s someone you haven’t talked to in a while, \u3054\u7121\u6c99\u6c70\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3000\uff08\u3054\u3076\u3055\u305f\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\uff09 is something you could possibly say.<\/p>\n
But say it’s a good friend you’ve known for a while, and you also happen to feel like showing off your knowledge of Japanese slang a bit. You could say…<\/p>\n
\u4e80\u30ec\u30b9\u3054\u3081\u3093 \uff08\u304b\u3081\u308c\u3059\u3054\u3081\u3093\uff09 \/ \u4e80\u30ec\u30b9\u5931\u793c\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3000\uff08\u304b\u3081\u308c\u3059\u3057\u3064\u308c\u3044\u3057\u307e\u3059\uff09<\/p>\n
\u4e80\u30ec\u30b9 is an interesting bit of Japanese slang that evolved in the last few years to mean “replying to someone’s email after a long delay”.<\/p>\n
Broken down, \u4e80\uff08\u304b\u3081\uff09 is the Japanese word for turtle. Clearly something slow!<\/p>\n
\u30ec\u30b9 is the shortened form of \u30ec\u30b9\u30dd\u30f3\u30b9 – response.<\/p>\n
\u4e80\u30ec\u30b9, therefore, is a response as slow as a turtle! We’ve all been there…<\/p>\n
Stay turned for more interesting Japanese!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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