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Sunday, April 4, 2010

An Easter Resurrection

Some of the people I follow on twitter are writing in Japanese - (another tool for vocabulary expansion!) - and today one of them had obviously had a heavy night:

んぐんぐ。コーヒー飲んで二日酔いから蘇生。

んぐんぐ isn't actually a word as far as I can tell. Maybe it represents the sound of drinking? Or the throbbing of one's sore head?

コーヒー飲んで二日酔いから - is easy enough. "I'm drinking coffee because I'm hungover".

This
word I didn't know though: 蘇生 - そせい - revival, resuscitation, rebirth, resurrection. The kanji is one I'm unfamiliar with but its kunyomi is 蘇る - よみがえる which also means to be resurrected. Powerful stuff, coffee! Happy Easter!



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