November, 2006

Japanese / Movies — No Comments
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Nov 06

Nani wo shite yaganda

Looking through my Japanese notes today, I came across a little phrase from a movie. It’s long ago, but I remember that it’s from Nippon Ichi Goma Suri Otoko, 日本一ゴマすり男, one of the Nippon Ichiban series.

何をしてやがんだ！

it’s the same as

何をしてる！

or an exclamation, what the hell are you doing! My teacher explained the roots to me, it comes from this

何をしていやがるんだ！

chop off the ru ending and put in yagaru. This makes is more colloquial. This one’s got the 2nd ru from yagaru chopped off too, to make it even more colloquial.

Green Tea / Tokyo — No Comments
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Nov 06

Koots Green Tea Starbucks

Yesterday I met a friend and we went to Azabu Juban, in Tokyo. He’s working around there, and he showed me one of his favourite shops in the area, a chain green tea shop called Koots. It’s got a really similar setup to starbucks, or sutaba as they say here, and when I asked what sizes my macha shake came in, she held them up just like they do there. I’m not sure what they called the sizes, but I don’t think it was grande and tall. Could be wrong though.

I just checked the back of their shop card, and they spelt coming “comming”. Not very zen.