nihongo à gogo » 外来語 http://nihongoagogo.com japanese brain amenity for a super happy talking time fun! Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:08:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 japanese brain amenity for a super happy talking time fun! nihongo à gogo no japanese brain amenity for a super happy talking time fun! nihongo à gogo » 外来語 http://nihongoagogo.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://nihongoagogo.com/category/%e5%a4%96%e6%9d%a5%e8%aa%9e/ Purikura http://nihongoagogo.com/2010/04/purikura/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=purikura http://nihongoagogo.com/2010/04/purikura/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:59:47 +0000 Michael http://nihongoagogo.com/?p=463 Continue reading →]]> プリクラ is short for プリント倶楽部 [ぷりんとくらぶ] and means “print club.”  The word プリクラ is yet another example of the Japanese adopting foreign loan words (外来語 [がいらいご]) and combining them in somewhat strange ways to describe something in Japanese.

プリクラ are the photos you can have taken in photo booths in malls and ゲーセン (ゲームセンター “game centers” or video game arcades) on which you can doodle and write things.  Perhaps a visual example is in order:



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