Sunday, October 27, 2013
おめ！
I just saw this on Facebook. It's one of my friend's birthday, and one of her other Facebook friends posted 「おめ！」 which is short for おめでとうございます！, or Congratulations. The way our younger generation here can cut syllables, and still be comprehensible. . .I'm starting to feel like there's a bit of genius in it.
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