Comments on: Internet slang in Japan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/11/28/internet-slang-in-japan/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: 35 widely unknown Japanese internet slang terms | 世論 What Japan Thinks http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/11/28/internet-slang-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-251095 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:20:55 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3472#comment-251095 [...] By Ken Y-N ( December 3, 2012 at 01:20) · Filed under Polls, Rankings Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); This recent ranking survey from goo Ranking was quite an effort to translate, a look at current net slang that are not yet widely known. Here is a related survey from a couple of years ago. [...]

]]> By: Michael A. Robson http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/11/28/internet-slang-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-242307 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:51:42 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3472#comment-242307 ha, very cool.. thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Brandon http://whatjapanthinks.com/2010/11/28/internet-slang-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-242291 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:07:19 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=3472#comment-242291 Some suggested corrections:

DQN A person makes stupid actions. Silly person without decent educational background.
ワロス Funny
痛車 A Car with stupid mod or paint usually with anime characters
リア充 Someone whose real life is good
希ガス I believe…
スイーツ（笑）Women living superficial lives
情弱 Someone without decent information
メシウマ状態 The situation that your opponent or someone you don’t like is struggling

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