January 10, 2013
Here's an interesting thing: the word ã‚¤ã‚±é¢ ikemen means "hunk, cool looking guy".
And the word é€ã‘é¢ ikemen means "exceptionally ugly man".
Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Japanese at
02:02 PM
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Both were updated on 4/16/2012, when there was apparently a major effort to work through some of the slang entries (such as adding ヌードル meaning both "noodle" and "TV personality who has appeared in the nude" (nude idol)).
-j
Posted by: J Greely at January 10, 2013 03:17 PM (fpXGN)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 10, 2013 04:03 PM (+rSRq)
I knew "ikemen" as "cool guy" before this post, so if it's slang, it's fairly commonly-used slang. (In anime-land, at least.)
Finding things like this that make you grin is one of the best parts of learning a new language. "Lock" and "key" both being "kagi" was one of my favorites.
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