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November 19, 2005

Ruh-oh

A variety of Japanese neologisms respond to the changing circumstances of Japanese women in the workplace. Many would make useful loan-words into Canadian English. For example, perhaps the Japanese word experts could oblige with a word for "gangs of women who think they are specific Sex and the City characters".

Bridget Joneses of the world beware: spend too much time with the rikonmiminenzo (divorce-promotion generation) and you just may end up as a moshimo-onna (a "what if?" girl) or even risk spending your thirties as a tsurumun (a woman who dreads being alone on national holidays and invents reasons to visit friends).

Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 19, 2005 10:03 AM

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