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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dammit! And a Brief Discussion of Gendered Words (ちきしょう)

He Says:
chikishou (ちきしょう)=damn it,shit
We use damn it,shit or shoot or something when we get in trouble. It's chikishou in Japanese. Japanese use it in many situations, but in business,it's prohibited to use it because they use polite words,which is keigo. Chikishou is a casual dirty word.
And chikushou is also the same.
Both are tend to used by men.

She Says:
He brings up a good point with the gendered words. I think that "dirty words" in any language tend to be spoken by men only since women wouldn't want to be seen dirtying themselves.
But gendered styles of speaking are quite interesting.
See, a lot of foreign guys learn Japanese from their Japanese girlfriends. But this means that they're learning a sort of feminized Japanese. They'll use words that only women would use. Often, Japanese people might be laughing at them behind their backs (or sometimes right in their face).
Likewise, I might come off as brash or rude when I speak Japanese because I imitate my husband's male-version Japanese.
If you want to more accurately speak the language, then you should learn from someone who's the same gender as you are.

The next word is...くそったれ。

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