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Japanese Is Affecting the English Lexicon in New Ways
Japan Times ^ | DAN GRUNEBAUM

Posted on 01/14/2017 12:04:53 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

I searched the article for a reference to the word “skosh”. In Japan the word ends with an i, pronounced skoh-shee, and meaning “a little bit” or “a small amount”. It gets used in English parlance shortened to “skosh”. Would you like more coffee? Yes, just a skosh.


41 posted on 01/14/2017 2:57:27 PM PST by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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“Hey GI, you go PX more skosh, catch me Greenex?” “Daijobu!”

Japan’s WWII ally was known as Adorufu Hitora. Look up cartoonist Bill Hume’s “Babysan” for more lingo lessons.


42 posted on 01/14/2017 3:15:15 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: NonValueAdded

She looks a little like Kellyanne Conway.


43 posted on 01/14/2017 3:20:07 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Frightening isn't it.

My spare glasses are what were known as ZPGs. Black, thick plastic.

I am apparently trendy.

Silly hipsters.

44 posted on 01/14/2017 4:20:46 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: KarlInOhio

It’s safe. Think metrosexual but going for the bearded and plaid shirt urban lumberjack look instead.

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I am reliving the seventies when urban wealthy women used to come here to north country to get themselves a genuine woods man and bring him back to NYC to show him off. Very trendy back then.


45 posted on 01/14/2017 4:49:05 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: lulu16

Okay is possibly the first word understood everywhere. People in India can’t say it just once but repeat it 4 times.


46 posted on 01/14/2017 6:03:15 PM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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