So what does this mean in the workplace? Well, an argument that flies around in the air – because nothing was written down on paper – and accomplishes nothing, leaving everyone feeling like they’ve learned and/or solved nothing. Word 8: Our either word, 空中戦 (くうちゅうせん), is literally just an aerial battle. Here, the “kindly” or polite meaning is pretty clearly being maintained.

Seriously, this is so common I found 3 in a row without any effort. So how is よしなに being used now? Well, one common way is to request people to follow you or connect with you online after you post a bunch of images of things you like. Minimally, since it’s officially recorded use, the term has historically had an air of politeness, being used often to ask requests of people of higher status. In fact, that source I just linked claims it could even have been used back in the Kojiki. Apparently the term has quite a history, being traceable to the speech of courtesans in the Heian Period and seen in literature from the 1600s. This adverb refers to doing something properly or well, especially to achieve a desired outcome. Word 7: The word よしなに is another one that’s been around long enough to appear in major dictionaries. If both corporations and hip-hop/pop music crossovers are using a word, it might just be worth treating as a pretty normal phrase. So 全員野球 is certainly a business term, but it’s arguably no longer restricted to that context alone. Rather, they are referring to hard work/thought.Īs a policy, not censoring names of major public actors/self-promo posts For instance, when this next poster talks about “parents sitting by their child’s side, licking pencils, suffering with them, delighting with them, while they study” as something that motivates learning, I’m pretty sure they aren’t talking about cooking the books.

There are articles that mention it, and I did note uses online in my data searching. From what I can tell, this is a bit of a minority take, but, hey, it is out there. The phrase refers to the idea that when you call a soba delivery (a 出前) about where your order is, they always say “it’s on the way”.Īlso, I should note that there are some people claiming that 鉛筆なめなめ means “to write really hard” or, by extension, to think about something really hard, rather than to mess with data. There’s a similar term, そば屋の出前 (そばやのでまえ), that is also worth noting here as it came up a lot in discussions of 鉛筆なめなめ: the term means to blow off pressure with a “oh it’s fine, almost done” answer.

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