I noticed the same thing! Looks like the kind of relationship that a tectonophysicist or hard rock geologist might get into…

Might anyone have a Japanese word for “ambivalent” or “neutral” (not particularly interested, not particularly disinterested)? This is how I feel about manga. On a search I found 玉虫色、but I don’t think that word is applicable.

Plutonic adj.
1. Of or relating to the god Pluto or the underworld; infernal.

そんな関係は面白そうけどだめでしょう。　て言うか、”Platonic relationship”が言いたいの言葉何でしょうネ。

Keep up the great work!

「ぽ」has no meaning, but gets attached to the end of certain words in ２ちゃん語, a kind of japanese slang. stay tuned, in a few months yuki and i will be doing a series of lessons based on japanese neologisms and slang from different subcultures as well as standard slang and we plan to cover 「ぽ」. but it’s pretty underground, most japanese people don’t know about 「ぽ」.
今「ぽ」の使い方を教えるのはちょっとムリぽww
がまんしてくださ～い！

>Marky
「ぽ」をリスナーのみなさんに教えちゃだめですよー 笑　かっこいい？かわいいスラングですね！

Looking around online you read a lot of very confusing, very ambiguous stuff about whether it’s even possible to swear in japanese. I’m still really confused about this, and I notice that whenever I’ve asked Japanese people about this I get really, really complicated answers.

From what I’ve been able to understand, what Japanese doesn’t have is specific tabu words - like the classic English four letter words - that are “sweary” in and of themselves. It seems like it’s more that Japanese has tabu usages, like “damare”, which isn’t offensive in itself, but is an offensive form of a perfectly vanilla word “damaru”.

Someday JPod101 will work up the guts to slap an “explicit” label on a series and explain exactly how that all works! It’s confusing!

勇樹、何で「ぽ」つけてないの？「ぽ」っておもしろいぽだよ！ww

ericさん、yeah, it was sooooo bad.

mayumiさん、will you try to go to 漫喫 now?