Mina-san, is this the exciting conclusion of Awakenings?

lol amnesia and comatose state!!
only at japanesepod would you get those words in a newbie lesson. （笑）
記憶喪失
昏睡状態

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

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どうして携帯の事分からなかった?

食睡はどう言う意味ですか。
What is this ’shokusui’ that you speak of?
Shokusui ha dou iu imi desuka.

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

Oh boy. Now you can joke about my amnesia ;;

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 this seems a little off topic, but I find it interesting how people make new words sometimes. Do people do it more in Japan? There are so many ‘made up’ words in Japanese, so maybe making up words like 食睡 is a symptom of living in a Japanese environment.

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’.

ポストはちょっと遅いですけど。。。

もし奥さんが旦那さんに電話すれば、彼女は「私ですけど」と言いますか。「私だけど」ってちょっと男っぽいでしょう。

benni-san,

私は、いつも、「私だけど」といいます。
カジュアルな言い方で、男っぽいということはないと思いますよ～。