Saturday, December 10, 2005

Slang Expression: 寝起き(neoki)

Today's slang expression comes from my 6-month-old Japanese nephew. He didn't say it personally, but because of his frequent naps, I was fortunate enough to learn it.

I suppose I should point out that kanji makes the Japanese world go round. Some have argued that kanji should be scrapped and katakana with it - Japanese should use hiragana or the roman alphabet only. I was one such person when I was first starting out in my kanji studies. I found some friends at my international university who tended to agree with me (they were Japanese students - not language students, actual Japanese).

Years later I'm compelled to smack myself in the head for being so naive. Kanji clears up the meaning of ANY PHRASE you will ever come across in conversation. One reason this language can be simplified so easily is because of kanji. Without it - no one would understand what anyone else was saying - ever.

So today's slang expression is 寝起き(neoki). Literally it means "sleep wake" as the kanji are 寝る (neru) "to sleep" and 起きる(okiru) "to wake up." However the expression means more like "just woke up" as you would say in the morning to your parents or your roommate. If you were sleeping and the phone woke you, you would have that sluggish voice and say "I just woke up" or "I was asleep (but you woke me up you B@#So today's slang expression is 寝起き(neoki). Literally it means "sleep wake" as the kanji are 寝る (neru) "to sleep" and 起きる(okiru) "to wake up." However the expression means more like "just woke up" as you would say in the morning to your parents or your roommate. If you were sleeping and the phone woke you, you would have that sluggish voice and say "I just woke up" or "I was asleep (but you woke me up you B@#So today's slang expression is 寝起き(neoki). Literally it means "sleep wake" as the kanji are 寝る (neru) "to sleep" and 起きる(okiru) "to wake up." However the expression means more like "just woke up" as you would say in the morning to your parents or your roommate. If you were sleeping and the phone woke you, you would have that sluggish voice and say "I just woke up" or "I was asleep (but you woke me up you B@#So today's slang expression is 寝起き(neoki). Literally it means "sleep wake" as the kanji are 寝る (neru) "to sleep" and 起きる(okiru) "to wake up." However the expression means more like "just woke up" as you would say in the morning to your parents or your roommate. If you were sleeping and the phone woke you, you would have that sluggish voice and say "I just woke up" or "I was asleep (but you woke me up you B@#$&*&*&)." That's the proper use of 寝起き.

My 6-month-old nephew arrived at my house for a visit today in a very "hey what's going on?!" kinda way. He hadn't fully found his bearings after an afternoon nap. I commented that he was kind of low-tension (another frequently encountered Japanese expression I find very strange as we don't use it so much in English), and his mom said "寝起き"

So there you have it! Try to use 寝起き the next time someone barges in on an afternoon nap!

27 comments:

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That's a useful little tidbit. But there seems to be a problem in the main paragraph - it repeats itself a few times. I dunno what caused it, but you might wanna re-read it and do some editing as required ;)

coicidentally, right now, I just... neoki! I cbf doing the whole sentence in japanese :\

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