2009年12月15日火曜日

Do you like short???

Do you use abbreviated words now?, do you like to use one? And how many abbreviated words do you know? Recently, Japanese language was divided into two patterns which are abbreviated words and dialect. They are used by all of our generation and Japanese language is changed by people who live in Japan now.
In my opinion, how to talk Japanese between young people’s Japanese and older people’s Japanese is totally different. For example, young Japanese people use abbreviated words such like “Uzai” which means noisy and “Kimoi” which means weird. They are one of the famous abbreviated words in Japan. The words “Kimoi” is “Kimochiwarui” in correct Japanese and “Uzai” is the sort form of Urusai. Actually, these words were my first time to use abbreviated words in my life. At that time, I felt that I am cool because I am using abbreviated words. How about now? I use those words every time and everyday when I talk to my friends. However, new abbreviation and new kinds of abbreviation are appearing. We called the words slang in Japan.
The reason why we use slang are to enjoy conversation more and to make conversation shorter. It effects making friends a lot. I have seen the situation that when my one of the friends talked with using slang to a person who didn’t know what that slang meant, my friends said to him that he is not a modern Japanese, he is old. The other mean is if you know slang a lot, you can make friends a lot. I agree with this because I have many friends who use slang with me and enjoy our conversation more. Sometimes, we can make our slang by ourselves then we can keep in secret the words between us. It is very easy to make it and it makes us that we are together every time or we are friends forever.
My grandparents get mad at me when I use the words for young people. According to them, they don’t want to admit that these words are Japanese, it is ashamed to use them as same Japanese. But what is the words for old Japanese? I think the words for old people are dialects. So, all of nation in Japan might not understand, because the dialects are different for each prefecture and each area. In Wakayama where my hometown is, there are many dialects too. For example, “Inu” which means “dog” in Japanese, means “come back” in my hometown.
It is interesting to know the dialect there are some books written about the dialect. I researched about when we all started to make the abbreviations. In the book “Japanese history” written by Nakami Yamaguchi, the author said Japanese words have been changing since Heian era. The changing language affects on Japanese society today. I felt not only knowing the history was changed is important but also knowing what happened at that time including the words is more important because we don’t know exactly about. In fact, there are some associations to protect dialects so that they don’t over time.
In conclusion, we cannot live without words. Words is very important tool in our life. Therefore both of slangs and dialects are important. Actually, slangs and dialects shows us how history is changing. We can learn how history is long from the words. But, as I said, dialects are becoming disappear now. Who is going to protect those words? The answer is us. We should protect these words with everyone. But I don’t know the dialect and I am using slang now, so I cannot do anything with it. I like to use slang anyway because it is easy to make our conversation more fun and stylish.

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