more on "Yabai"

If you look at the "title" area of this blog (and you can read Japanese, I guess), you can see that it says "Yabai Oyodo." I chose that because of the duality of the word, as I mentioned in the previous post.

Well.

It really IS a dualistic word. For example, I was watching an American TV show here, and it was subtitled. On the show, a driver nearly hits someone with his car and says "Jesus!" This was translated in the subtitles as "Yabai!"

So "yabai" means, sort of, "damn." In a way. Like, "Damn! I nearly killed that guy!" or "Damn! She's fine!"

Weird.

Damn Oyodo, indeed. Or Damn! Oyodo!