in english, i always make up new words. i think english is great for it! especially with slang.

but 食睡 is just jpod. my girlfriend started using it but just because i taught her and there is no japanese equivalent.
and as for honorifics, we put 御 in front of loads of things too. for example, お猿、お風邪、おピーシー様、and she often addresses me with the feudal honorific suffix 殿 and calls my apartment マーキー城.

marky

Your average Joe on the street (Zhang on the street) in 中国 would understand 食睡 if you wrote it on a piece of paper for him, but wouldn’t ever use it. He’d probably just find it silly, and never use it. It’d never enter the vernacular at all, on any level.

Maybe it’s just a jPod thing though, and maybe I’m looking too much into it. It’s just that I find myself coining new Japanese words with my girlfriend all the time, but never do in Chinese or English, even though I speak Chinese and English much better than Japanese.

For example, my girlfriend and I both enjoy the TV show Lost, and we have started adding the honorific 御(Go) before it since it’s such a good show. We call the local DVD shop, DVD屋さん. Only in Japanese would you combine 3 Roman letters, a Chinese character, and an honorific suffix!

Little things like that come so easily in Japanese don’t work in English or Chinese. Know what I mean?

I hope everyone doesn’t reply with today’s grammar point, どう言う意味ですか, or roughly translated as ‘what the hell are you talking about’.

I think the lunch coma comes from eating US-sized portions of starchy/sugary food at lunch - probably not as big of a problem in Japan.

Maybe it’s the comatose feeling you get after eating too much.

どうして携帯の事分からなかった?

actually, we invented our own japanese word here at the office.
食睡・しょくすい・shokusui・lunch coma!