世論 What Japan Thinks

A little while back goo Ranking published the results of a poll into the top 30 new internet words. Many of these neologisms are unlikely to ever find their way into a dictionary, other than perhaps one of the Wiki family, of course. As usual for goo Ranking, the top vote gets 100 points, and all the rest get a value representing the percentage of votes relative to the number one choice.

As you might suspect, many of these words were coined on 2 Channel.

As I no doubt have made many, many mistakes, please feel free to correct me!

Rank	日本語	English meaning	Score
1	キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!, also ktkr, キタコレ, kitakore, etc	I’m here!!!!	100
2	スレ, sure	Thread on a bulletin board	76.1
3	＿|￣|○, orz, OTL, etc	Failure or despair – someone on their hands and knees	59.5
4	もうだめぽ, moudamepo	“Looks like it’s all over” or something like that	57.4
5	ハァハァ, (´Д｀；)ハアハア	Seems to be related to dirty or nervous panting	56.5
6	キボンヌ, kibonnu, きぼーん, kibo-n, etc	Hope, from 希望, kibou	56.1
7	ガクガクブルブル, gakugakuburuburu	To be in fear	54.7
8	ググる, guguru	To google	52.1
9	自作自演, jisaku jien	Literally, “acting a charade”; in net lingo, “sock puppet”	50.7
10	w	Laugh, from the first letter of warai, the Japanese for laugh	50.6
11	マンセー, manse-	Korean for “banzai”, cheering	44.0
12	ワラタ, warata, ワロス, warosu, ワロタ, warota	Laughing, a corruption of warai, the Japanese for laugh	42.1
13	あぼーん, abo-n	Deleting an account, apparently from the English “a bone”, somehow	41.7
14	香具師, yashi	That guy, a corruption of やつ, yatsu to やし, yashi, which in the IME can be represented in the kanji shown	39.5
15	ガチ, gachi	Playing for keeps, abbreviation of ガチンコ, gachinko	39.4
16	厨房, chuubou	Middle-school student, from the slang term 中坊 chuubou	39.4
17	亀レス, kame-resu 遅レス, oso-resu	Slow thread, slow response within a thread	38.8
18	DQN, ドキュン, dokyun, ドキュソ, dokyuso	From Mokugeki Dokyun, meaning something like “here comes trouble”, or just a general insult	35.7
19	○○祭り, matsuri, 炎上, enjou	Flaming, flame war	33.9
20	神降臨, kamikourin	Posting private or confidential information publically	33.5
21	リアル○○, real —	Real something or other – don’t take the slang meaning of the word (I think)	32.9
22	毒男, dokuo	Single man, from 独身男性, dokushin dansei and alternative kanji	32.6
23	激しく同意, hageshiku doui, 禿同, hagedou	Strongly agree (but perhaps there is another meaning?)	32.5
24	ツンデレ, tsundere, ツンツンデレデレ, tsuntsunderedere	A woman aloof when alone, lovestruck when together (perhaps…)	32.4
25	ノシ, noshi (・ω・)ノシ, (´∀｀)ノシ	I haven’t a clue!	28.8
26	腐女子, fujoshi, 貴腐人, kifujin	Woman who likes male homo-erotic comics	28.6
27	あｑｗせｄｒｆｔｇｙふじこｌｐ；, ふじこ, fujiko	Not very sure on this either!	27.7
28	ry, 以下略, ikaryaku, 略, ryaku	Truncated from here onwards – often used jokingly	25.3
29	ぬるぽ, nurupo, ガッ, ga!	Nonsense!	25.0
30	電波系, denpakei, デムパ, demupa	Tinfoil hat wearer, perhaps?	24.5