Tuesday, May 24, 2022

"群馬"and"グンマー", Differences in meaning brought about by differences in pseudonym usage in Japanese language

Summary

For those who are in hurry to conclude first, ”グンマー(Gunmaa)” is slang in internet that ridicules ”群馬県(Gunma prefecture in Japan)” .

Because Gunma prefecture is a countryside.

Actually Japanese people travel there and know Gunma prefecture has beautiful nature and good hotsprings.



Main Text

If I study Japanese language, I'll often curse Japanes letters.

Because three kind of letters are used in Japan."漢字(Kanji)","ひらがな(Hiragana)",and"カタカナ(Katakana)"



For example, the word letter is described "文字" in kanji.

Simiraly,in hiragana it is written as "もじ" and in katakana it is written as "モジ".

But "文字" is usually used in Japan.Word can be described in Kanji is usually written in Kanji.(All word can be written in Hiragana or Katakana. Childeren who haven't learned Kanji do so.)

Japanese sentences don't have spaces like English, and it is easier to understand if meaningful chunks of characters are written in Kanji.


Then, some people may wonder when to use hiragana and katakana.

I write easy sentence that mean I like my dog Pochi.

私は飼っている犬のポチが好きです。

Kanji is ”私”,”飼”,”犬”,”好” and they mean  ”I”,”my”,”dog”,”like”. Katakana is ”ポチ(Pochi)”, others are hiragana.

Roughly speaking, Hiragana qualifies other words.

Katakana is used when the word come from other country or is prprietary noun.

Again, Japanese words expressed in Kanji can also be writeten in Hiragana or Katakana.


Returning to the story here, ”群馬(Gunma)” means prefecture name.

Ordinary Japanese live in Gunma prefecture and  the prefecture has a good hot spring.

But if you search ”群馬(Gunma)”in Katakana with ”ー”(”グンマー(Gunmaa)”), you'll find that.


・Gunmaa is undeveloped world.

・Half naked people live in Gunmaa.

・Gunmaa uses its own language.

・It is an unexplored region that takes 20 hours from the neighboring Saitama.

・Wild animals are striding in Gunmaa.

・Gunmaa celebrates adults with its own ethnic ritual.



Will people image previous picture?

They include some lies.


・Gunmaa is undeveloped world.

It's false.

Actually Gunma has beautiful nature, but 1,983,000 people live in Gunma and Gunma has a large city and many factry.


・Half naked people live in Gunmaa.

It's false too.

Most people are wearing clothes. Half naked people may be at waterside like other region.


・Gunmaa uses its own language.

Half is true, but half is wrong. 

As in other region, there are dialects in Gunma.


・It is an unexplored region that takes 20 hours from the neighboring Saitama.

It's false too.

Googlemap say It's take 1hour40min.But Gunma has many mountain.


・Wild animals are striding in Gunmaa.

Half is true, but half is wrong. 

As in other region, there are few animals in the city and there are many animals in the nature. But sometimes animals are witnessed in the city.


・Gunmaa celebrates adults with its own ethnic ritual.

It's an exaggerated expression. "成人式("seijinshiki",party to celeblate 20 years old people)  are held all over Japan, and in the countryside, young people may perform flashy performances.



They may come from Gunma is countryside and have abundant nature.

But two thirds of Japan's land area is forest.

Except for prefecture in the plain, many areas are rural surroundf by forests and the sea in Japan, and Gunma is not special rural.



 Gunma is located in the north of Kanto region that has a large population and is the most developed  city in japan including Tokyo.



Despite being located in  the  northern part of  the  Kanto region, Gunma prefecture is a country with abundant nature compared to the  plains.

There are many news such as magnificant  scenery  and the appearance of animals, so there is the trend to ridicule Gunma prefecture on the Internet.

I take these pictures in travel to Gunma, Gunma is famous tourist area.

This is columnar joint. Gunma has various nature phenomenon.


Altermatively, people in Gunma may self-deprecate Gunma as Gunmaa.

In order to express the difference in those contexts Gunma which is originally written in Kanji("群馬") is described in Katakana as "グンマー".


Because of there reason, if you see the sentence with ”グンマー”or”グンマー”, it has some contexts. And the word "グンマー" should not be used for people who are unfarimiliar or disleiked.


Sunday, May 8, 2022

Open blog about japan

 I open this blog and this is first post.


Theme of this blog is "Japan".


Culture,nature,food,meme,internet slang,things that are not written...many things including them are called "Yorozu" in Japanese.

("Yorozu" is old expression.Japanese people don't use the word "Yorozu" in everyday conversation. Additionaly, when "yorozu" is used, it usually accompanies "の(no)". For example, "Yorozu no mono(thing)"or"Yao-yorozu no kamigami(much god or spirit)". The latter one"八百万の神々(Yao-yorozu no kamigami)"will be talked about someday, because it is popular topic.)



It's a little off topic, but today I'll talk about why I opened this blog.


I  am Japanese and I'm not good at English.I read speak English slowly because my English vocablary is poor.

By searching, I can understand word that I can't understand.

When I am in a hurry, I use google translation. But it can't help me sometimes.

English-Japanese translation would be difficurt  for google translation.


Perhaps this is also happening when  searching for Japanese text and translating them into English.
Then,I'll try translating Japanese "Yorozu" thing into English.
But I'm not good at English. My immediate goal is translating more cleary than google.

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