Thursday, 7 February 2008

Kawaii = Cute

This is a word I'm sure many of you know all too well- be it from watching 20 seconds of Japanese TV or from that Japanophile posterperson, Gwen Stefani. But just in case:

Kawaii (kah-wah-eee): cute; can be said about people, animals, cartoon animals, stuffed cartoon animals, and pictures of animals (particularly the cartoon kind)

I interrupt this word of the day message to say that Christina rocks!!! Thanks so much for the book (which I totally wishlisted on Amazon after you told me about it months ago)!!!! And I can't wait to Skype you while you can check out my "it doesn't really look like anyone is living there" apartment!!!! YAYYYYY!!! OK, I'm done now. Had to get it out.

OK, sorry back to business.

e.g.

Vinnie: (as soon as he closes the door of my bathroom) Ah! Kawaii!!!!!
Pam: Hey, what? What's kawaii?
Vinnie: Pam, uh... how many things in your bathroom could I possibly be talking about?!

Hm... I'm pretty sure he was talking about this:



p.s. That would be the same Vin from RU! He's teaching English over in Yokohama now (which is not far from Tokyo...but he was kind enough to come and hang in Kansai for a few days!).

3 comments:

Lux said...

ok, i read this a couple of days ago and have been looking for that cute...sorry, kawaii thing. where'd you get it??

Stiney said...

A.) I am a bad friend. I thought I had subscribed to the RSS feed for you blog, but apparently never actually did. So I thought you hadn't been updating your blog lo these many months, and I just read every post.

B.) You never posted pictures of you dressed as Carmen Sandiego. I propose a picture swap, where I send you pictures of my friend Lisa dressed as Carmen Sandiego.

B.1.) I bought "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" a few weeks ago at Staples, for $10. It's lame and not the same version we used to play in Lamonico's class (remember when you thought he was hot? Or was that just Randi? PS he wasn't.) But it's almost epic in its lameness.

C.) I'm excited to visit you. And I like the Japanese lessons.

D.) Update your blog more!

E.) Tomio says he needs to correct your "romanji." Whatever that is.

F.) Your toilet paper roll is totally kawaii. It makes me want to squee.

JavaJive said...

Please bring me back one of those toilet paper animals.

Also, thanks for linking to Chaptastic!