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Old 2008-09-06, 00:28   Link #1740
rio
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: JPN around Tokyo
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Originally Posted by Mystique View Post
Agreed, learning slang and the break-up of another language in a basic learning thread, kinda tosses things on its head.
My japanese friend, gave me an update on slang over there earlier this week.

"zenzen heiki yo" = i'm totally cool/fine.

The fact that "zenzen" which is usually associated with 'nai' is now being used 180 to mean 'very' is screwing with my mind so bad, i refuse to acknolowedge, it, lol.

When i heard the slang for the first time about 10 years ago,ALL they said 'zen zen OK'.

i was like

and remember my friend's teacher was angry about it
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