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te iu ka

ていうか

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Used properly ‘te iu ka is a 100% correct Japanese phrase meaning, “In other words…”. For example you could say, “’te iu ka wakaretai”, meaning “In other words, you want to break up with me.” This phrase has become one of the top language peeves of people over 30 however, because of the way young people over-use it. Watch “The Coliseum” segment on Inazuma, and almost every sentence will start with this phrase, no matter whether other person has said anything or not. It’s about equivalent to the way North American teen-agers use “like” and “you know”.

Pantsu meiteru zo

to get even more slangy shorten the phrase and say it like: てかぁ、　or 　つか、 [Comment by: clubikimakuri ]

Its not "te", its "to". te could also be considered a slang. like when someone asks, "Fish stick te nani?" [Comment by: Rob ]

actually, te iu ka is probably correct, it's probably a disjointing + misplacement of tte iu, which is how you quote someone. [って言う] [Comment by: Kat ]

と言うか (or perhaps I should say... how should I put it...) is right. Then you have って言うか and て言うか... getting shorter and more colloquial which are also used. [Comment by: Trublmkr ]

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