I saw this in a tweet just a few minutes ago.
アメリカ…俺よりカイデーな選手がゴロゴロ(ﾟoﾟ;;
This could be talking about the world cup.
I can't find カイデー defined anywhere. What does it mean? What does that tweet say?
asked Jul 17, 2011 at 20:58
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I am not fully sure, but it may be an instance of playing around with words: cut a word in half and put them together in the wrong order, which is often done especially among celebrities. In this case:
でかい → デ + カイ → カイ + デ → カイデー [Vowel lengthened to make it four-mora, which sounds more familiar and cool]
In this case, it will mean
America ... There are bunches of players around who are larger than me.
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2A couple of years ago it was popular among the JK crowd to pronounce ごめん as メンゴー, so this is probably the same thing. Jul 17, 2011 at 21:39
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@Derek Yes. That is another example.– user458Jul 17, 2011 at 22:26
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I'm inclined to believe it's the reordering of pronunciation. English has a similar concept. It's called Pig Latin(which actually has nothing to do with Latin).
This answer might not be directly relevant to Japanese, but if the concept of reordering exists in English, it seems to make it more believable that similar phenomenon occurs in other languages.
The first onset (the consonant (cluster) that comes before a vowel) is put to the back of the word, then "ay" is added to it.
E.g. "Scram" turns into "Amscray" (Typical Pig Latin example. It was frequently used to the point where it eventually became a recognized English word)
E.g. "Bird" turns into "Irdbay"
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Reordering is indeed observed widely in other languages. It is called metathesis.
scramandbirdare mono-syllabic. So the first syllable is the whole word. I think you meant onset (i.e., the consonant (cluster) that comes before a vowel).– user458Jul 29, 2011 at 18:29 -
Ah yes that was what I intended to mean. But I didn't have the exact term for it. I'll fix it. Thanks.– Flaw ♦Jul 30, 2011 at 0:08