Bottles of cola-flavored gelatin dessert are being sold in a Pokka vending machine near the end of the street I live on. I'm not sure if you're supposed to eat it with a spoon as the picture on the label indicates, or if you're supposed to drink it as the bottle shape seems to imply. Either way, I'll keep my 120 yen ($1.33).
Note that "up" is often used in Japanese English as a way of saying "increase". I have to constantly correct students who think it's correct to say "level up" or "skill up" when talking about improving their abilities.
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Interesting that your students say "level up" and things like that. That particular use comes from video games, but I wonder if the video game use led to the pervasive use of "UP" in Japanese language or vice-versa.
It's an interesting question, perhaps one of those "chicken and the egg" things. They also say, "skill up", "power up", etc. Those are all game terms though!
Thanks for your comment! :-)
I love Geelee type of foods... (jelly) gelatin? haha but I only like coffee....
Have you tried any of these yet? I've heard power up... but ......
One thing I caught myself saying was "heavy user" sounds like I have crack pip hiding somewhere...
April Marie: Hi, and thanks for commenting. :-)
I have tried these, but no reviews of them yet. :-)
I actually grew quite fond of the jelly drinks when I was in Japan last year. The one I loved was'Shake Shake Jelly' ('Shaku Shaku Jellu'??-excuse my bad Japanese). Was a grape flavour and we could only get it around Tokyo. Then discovered Fanta did a gelatin based drink that was quite similar but in different flavours!! Basically you would drink and shake, drink and shake until it dissolved into a really runny jelly (closest I can describe it is that it has the consistency of thick water!)
Actually going to be one of the first things I buy when I get off the plane next trip!! (assuming we fly into Tokyo...if not, it will be the last thing I buy!)
Tristan
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