Japanese Street Slang
Completely Revised and Updated
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2011
Summary
“Essential Japanese you won’t find in any dictionary”
From “ai” (“love”) to “zukkyu!” (“heart attack!”) Japanese Street Slang details the roughest and rawest street language as it’s used in Japan today. Here’s how the Japanese really speak: the hustlers and high-rollers, the anime otaku teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. This is the guide to the kinkiest sex talk, drug slang, criminal lingo, popular text-messaging abbreviations, and more. More than j…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590308486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590308484 |
| Author: | Peter Constantine |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Weatherhill Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 138mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
“Kakkoii (Cool) is a good word to describe this book. Constantine’s painstaking research has produced a collection of words and phrases in the Japanese language used by everyone from teenagers to criminals to members of mainstream Japanese society when choosing to not be quite so stereotypically polite. Part academic treatise, part introduction to the colloquial side of the Japanese language, Japanese Street Slang offers something for linguists and Japanophiles alike.”—Elephant Journal
Peter Constantine
Peter Constantine is the author of Japan’s Sex Trade and Japanese Slang Uncensored. He was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. He has also translated works by Isaac Babel, Machiavelli, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky.
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