3pm Journal of Digital research & publishing - artichoke web design

3pm Journal of Digital research & publishing
as people who do best in a particular area, like “the best expert”. However, this saying is
sometimes ironic or exaggerating.
4) Phonetic translations from foreign language (4)
One is from English while the other three are from Japanese:
“�”�fan�; “��”(yo xi)means “all right” in Japanese.
5) Verbs and adjectives used as conveying the users’ mood. (13)
The words which mean “making a fist”, “having no strength”, and “sweating” etc. are all
related to the typical acts or gestures that anime characters make.
The word which means “staying at home” is related to the living style of anime fans.
6) Words directly introduced from Japanese (14)
Some of these slangs are translation of meaning from Japanese. The others are Chinese
characters used in Japanese. The sequence is that Japanese borrowed some Chinese
characters in the before, while now Chinese borrow these words “back” into Chinese. The
meanings of these words have changed a lot.
7) Others (11)
Characters of the internet slangs related to Japanese anime
In the internet slangs investigated, some one or two words are used to describe actions
or conditions which often appear in anime works. Particularly in comic books, an action or
a state of the character can be represented by still pictures. For instance, in order to show a
character is “drinking a cup of tea comfortably”, a picture is drawn, which depicts a person
drinking a cup of tea with satisfaction on his or her face. Inside or near this picture, one
Japanese word which means “tea” (sometimes the word is Chinese character) is added to
describe the action of having tea, as well as indicate the ease of the character.
There is a phenomenon that internet slangs can transfer the meaning of this picture into
written language by only remaining the word “tea”. In this situation, this single word refers
to more contents rather than its literal meaning. The single word in Chinese slangs, are
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