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hiromichi
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 Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: bounenkai-slash-wake |
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"bounennkai" means in Japanese "forget-the-year paarty". What is the meaning of "slash-wake" ?
Saturday evening, about a dozen of Shakai's remaining
members met in Tokyo for a bounenkai-slash-wake and
decided to maintain contact for social purposes.
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CP
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The slash is the symbol "/". A wake is a party held in the wake of (after) someone's funeral. The writer was evidently saying that a bounenkai is a sort of wake for the old year.
So the sentence might have been written
Saturday evening, about a dozen of Shakai's remaining
members met in Tokyo for a bounenkai / wake and
decided to maintain contact for social purposes.
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hiromichi
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CP, Thank you. Just before that they closed the Shakai mailing list for discussion of Japanese society. So I can understand "wake".
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Ah, I see. Then yes, it is a wake for the Shakai mailing list that has "died," in addition to the year-end party.
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