Mina-san, here are a few more examples of usage:
飲みっぱなし - nomippanashi
食べっぱなし - tabeppanashi

Daniel-san,
I am having the same problem. Maybe the Tech Guy will fix something?

Mina-san,

Apologies for those of you that experiences issues with our feeds on iTunes earlier today. It appear that the root cause of the problem was a mal-formed XML tag. We have corrected the problem and everything should now be functioning. Simply “Right Click” on the podcast in iTunes and select “Update Podcast”.

If you continue to experience issues, please let us know.

Eran

みんなさん、こんにちは！
明日は金曜日ですね…「花の金曜日」は聞いたことあるの？英語の「TGIF」と同じようなものだ。明日の午後、くたくたになれば「花金」を覚えればいいよ！

As for practice–Well, it seems that the poor man in the podcast isn’t the only person with telephone issues. If you take a look at this posting on yomiuri’s website http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/komachi/reader/200407/2004072100115.htm , what kind of problem does the first poster have? Why does the poster not want to just let the answering machine take all the calls? Why can’t the poster use caller ID (ナンバーディスプレイ)? Reading down the page, what are the reasons why the second poster say that it’s definitely necessary (絶対必要) to use caller ID?

Unlike Americans, Japanese people often use polite/formal language when posting things online. Can you find how the fourth poster refers to him/herself? 「こちら側」. The word, 「こちら」 is frequently used in polite expressions, such as 「こちらこそ」 and can refer to oneself or another person. But I definitely don’t suggest going around and saying 「こちら側」 to mean oneself; the meaning is different than say, 「私」. For example, 「 国境のこちら側に」 means, “on this side of the border” while similarly, 「街のこちら側に」 means “on this side of town.” Closer to the grammatical usage of a personal pronoun 「こちら側に誤解がありました」, meaning “there was a misunderstanding on my/our part,” sounds formal and would probably only be used in a business situation. 「こちら側の問題ではないと思います」 would mean, “I don’t think this is a problem on my side.”

How about another phone-related topic? In America, number portability was a big development a little ways back, and in Japan, it exists as well. Called 「ナンバーポータビリティ」 or 「番号ポータビリティ」, it’s available for both mobile and fixed lines, though porting cellphone numbers is also known as MNP（Mobile Number Portability）. Check out the ja.wikipedia page on the topic: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%95%AA%E5%8F%B7%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3 . If you scroll down the page, you’ll see a chart telling when various countries implemented a portability system. Which was earlier, Japan or the US? When did Italy allow porting? How about Germany? Denmark?

Underneath the cart you should see the heading 「日本の状況」. According to this section, can you port mobile telephone email addresses? Do you have to pay a fee for number porting? Does the author of this article think that MNP will lead to big changes in the market share of service providers? On 11/8 (MNP became available on 10/24), which providers had lost subscribers? Which company gained subscribers? ^_^

In Lottery I, we had the verb ‘furu’ for ‘to dump someone’. After some research (no I wasn’t dumped), I found some more useful vocab.

furu = to reject someones advances
suteru = to throw way (can be used to dump someone)
ii otomodachi de imashou = Let’s be good friends (You’ve been turned down)
sode ni suru = to give someone the cold shoulder (literally ’sleeve’)

That last one’s quite interesting. I wonder if it’s got anything to do with kimono sleeves.

I’m Japanese but this site is really helpful for people who’re learning English like me as well.

As for the remark by Alan, “I wonder if it’s got anything to do with kimono sleeves.”, I googled it and as it turned out, yes, Alan was right.

“じゃまもの扱いする。とくに、異性を冷淡に扱うことを意味します。 語源は、「袖」は身頃（胴部）の両脇についていることから、一般に本体に対しての付属部分を指すと言われます。たとえば、舞台の両脇なども「袖」です。そこから、軽く冷淡に扱う意が … ”
http://search.msn.co.jp/results.aspx?q=site:www.nihongogen.com+%e8%a2%96%e3%81%ab%e3%81%99%e3%82%8b%e3%80%80%e8%aa%9e%e6%ba%90&FORM=MSRE2

Well.. I’m not sure if I can explain this in my poor English, but let me try.

“Sode” originates from kimono sleeves. Since they are attached to each side of a body of a kimono, they generally imply accompanying parts that go with a main body. For example, a wing of a stage is called “sode” in Japanese. From these facts, their meaning gradually turned into dealing with something or someone without care or courtesy.

Well.. maybe you guys didn’t need my translation.

これからも、JapanesePod101.comで、楽しく勉強しましょうね！！

Yuka-san!

Welcome to the site!

We need your translation and your English sound great so don’t say its poor ok! S_R_C

Yuka, Thank you for your help. ジョン

In the dialoue the PDF in the ROMANJI has:

aa soo desu ka?

which should be:

aa soo nan desu ka?

Yes, Yuka-san, I think all of us would appreciate a little help in translation. There are some things that a dictionary just can’t tell us. A big welcome!

And of course, everyone else has been very helpful also. I’m still fairly new here, but you guys are gonna hear from me more and more!

-Hugo

サインディさん、

はい、ほんとうにありがとう、サインディさん。ほとんど毎日JP101を聞くけど、俺はまだ初心者ですよ。ですから、ここに練習したいです。じゃあ、よく間違えますよね！お願い、正してください！

よろしくお願いします！

-Hugo

Ohayoo Gozaimasu

Unrelated question…
How do you say ‘forget about it’ in Japanese to someone apologizing? Or is there such a thing - do you just say nothing? Or do you wave your hand?

Arigato Gozaimasu

Tryllid

　Hey the lesson is old but i just started )) never too late huh
　
i have some questions, whoever can help me out, i’ll appreciate it ) is the auxiliary ppanashi has only negative usage?
　-i’m having hard time understanding the usage.

can i say “彼　は　彼女　に　振られた　ので　酒　を　飲みっぱなし　だ”
did i say it right?

and another question is this auxiliary considered polite or there is a substitution for it as a polite version?

hai, thank you