The current hot topic is this year’s candidates for Japanese buzzword of the year. Today’s discussion topic: The 2014 buzzword of the year that we would select.
The girls agree that the strongest contender for the year would be ‘Dame yo~ dame dame‘ (No way~No, no). This buzzword comes from a sketch by the female comedy duo Nippon Erekiteru Rengō, where the white-faced dutch wife Akemi would rebuff her suitor Hosogai by going ‘Dame yo~ dame dame‘ whenever he asks ‘Isn’t it all right [to accept my proposal]?’.
Followed by:
Airi recounts that at handshake events, some people have tried to set it up by stroking her hand and following the flow of the original sketch, asking ‘Isn’t it all right?‘ Airi, however, is slow on the uptake and just goes ‘Ah, is that so?‘
And then:
Momoko: Simply said, if they go ‘Is it all right if I go for an AKB handshake too?‘, you’d go ‘Dame yo~ dame dame‘.
Airi: That’s easy to understand.
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