Mina-san, what’s your cure for a hangover?

My cure is more prevention. Avoid the action that causes the hangover.
(sorry, not really a drinker)

How do you use it?

なんて It seems really difficult for me!

Steve,

Like Naomi said, it adds emphasis, and you kind of add it where you want the emphasis to be placed.

It can be used as a colloquial form of 何と, which modifies adjective/adverbs in an exclamatory way.

なんて寒いな！Talk about cold!

You can use it in place of が or は to emphasise the topic/subject.

ピンクのトースターなんてかわいいー！A pink toaster! How cute!

And as in today’s lesson, you can use it in place of こと or の to nominalise a predicate with a nuance of emphasis.

こういう時に踊るなんて馬鹿だな！Dancing at a time like this is stupid!

This is what I’ve picked up through the lessons anyway. Maybe someone else can confirm it, because I would want to give you the wrong idea.

hello i just want to say thank you for this lesson
very very good grammar point

Shouldn’t that be “the Romaji HAS been fixed?”

冗談，冗談！

今日俺の冗談は面白いね！いい天気のセイカ。(Sorry, couldn’t think of any other way to use today’s grammar point!)

LOL@seoulsistaさん、that’s pretty funny but true.

I also found that eating McDonald’s Chicken McFuggets and drinking a bottle of Pocari Sweat or Aquarius before sleeping also does wonders for preventing a hangover.

Max - Japanesepod101.com (Marky???) is using archaic English.

My hangover cure is Cannibal Corpse!

http://www.cannibalcorpse.net/

That scares the hangover away and makes your head feel goooooooooooooooooood

And is it just me or was the mother shouting at him? That will make his hangover worse!

お母さんはそのつもりだったと思いますが。

Maybe someone else can confirm it

Yep. It’s also often used like なんちゃって to mean “jut kidding.”

Corona Qnsさん、

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