Comments on: Gyaru-go, The Language Of The Mysterious And Elusive Creature: The Gal

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:59:00 +0000

I went to a spa recently and the girl who was taking care of me was Japanese, so we got to talking about the culture since she moved here some time ago and was interested in my perspectives. It worked out well for me because the last she was in her country was about early 2000s which was the height of my interest in the culture because I was a teenager. Now I don’t care too much for the popular culture so I’d be pretty dated to talk to anyone now. One of the things she was telling me was how her Canadian husband was so interested in Ganguro girls. Not because they were pretty or anything, just that they were so silly looking to him and we had a good laugh chatting about them. It seemed like such a silly fad that I hadn’t heard anything about in the past decade, I’m so relieved to see it’s evolved to a less ridiculous form lol… The last time I was in Japan I was in rural towns so I didn’t see any. I’m looking forward to going back though because I’ll be in Tokyo :)

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:27:00 +0000

やぐる comes from the big story of Yaguchi, ex-Morning Musume, getting caught cheating on her husband. It’s been kinda interested watching the term evolve after the incident.

By: MandaMac

MandaMac — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:43:00 +0000

FYI, I laughed so hard at this. Told my husband about it, and now every time I turn around he’s using ‘prongl’, ‘prongled’ or ‘prongling’ in a sentence.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:48:00 +0000

ya know you can convert your text to gyaru-go

http://mizz.lolipop.jp/galmoji/

from googling 変換　ギャル語

By: Juliet

Juliet — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 02:43:00 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, this is a thing now.

By: Amy Crabtree

Amy Crabtree — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:35:00 +0000

Love the 6 levels of anger scale! This should be adopted everywhere :-)