Interesting Japanese words

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Interesting Japanese words Anonymous 02/01/15 (Sun) 00:12:20 No.1723

Also, do you think this definition is correct?

Anonymous 02/03/15 (Tue) 12:21:09 No.1730

That's a nice find, OP.

Personally, I just like the sound of ぺらぺら。

I know it's used to talk about fluency in a foreign language; but I heard that it can sometimes be used in a pejorative sense (talking too much). I've never personally encountered that second meaning in conversation: is that usage common?

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 01:42:07 No.1732

>>1730
That's a very interesting one. It's sounds similar to the Greek "barabara", which was used as onomatopoeia in ancient Greek for non-Greek languages. Apparently, the Greek term is related to a Sanskrit term for the same thing. Maybe it made its way to Japan in altered form.

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 01:48:40 No.1733

>>1723
I found the same definition in the WWWJDIC: http://www.edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-bin/entr.py?svc=jmdict&sid=&q=1593440

Here's the dictionary if you're interested: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi

Anonymous 02/23/15 (Mon) 22:17:10 No.1814

>>1733
Thanks. I had heard of wwwjdic a long time ago but have avoided it because I hate Monash Uni.
It seems decent so I might have to use it.

Anonymous 02/24/15 (Tue) 10:02:36 No.1821

>>1814
zkanjiも使ったことがないから？

Then you've never used zkanji, either?