"culia doesn't mean anything, i think you could mean culiao which mean guy or bro in argentina, or culiar which is an awful word to express anal sex in colombia."とは 意味・読み方・使い方

an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')

the rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer)

to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech

an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids

and others (`et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people)

a river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo

a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')

in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday

a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)

This might lead us to believe that a simple culture would make use of a simple language, that a complex culture would make use of a complex language, and so on.

an offensive term for an offspring of parents of different races (especially of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)

a piece of music that is based on the form of modern music in which sounds from nature, human voices and/or other sounds are recorded and mixed together, called musique concrete

When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.

Though Japanese has borrowed heavily [a great deal] from Chinese and English, only a few Japanese words have entered other languages.

British say `it rained like billyo' where Americans say `it rained like all get out'

the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open

“I think language is a reflection of culture."“Good point. I would say, beyond that, it's a reflection of our minds."

being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado

a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs

of the 24 divisions of the old lunar calendar, the period of time beginning around the seventh of July, which marks the beginning of summer, and extending until about the twenty-third of July, which marks the beginning of midsummer

Transitive verbs ending in “-keru” change it into “-karu” when used in a passive sense: as―“azukeru, azukaru,” “sazukeru, sazukaru”.

I may seem confident, but I get extremely nervous speaking in front of people. My hands tremble, I get all tongue-tied, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm saying myself.

There is a tendency for Japanese to want to know a certain amount of personal information about someone such as age, position and whether they are married or not, before they feel comfortable talking with a stranger.

the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up

the impersonal ‘it'

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

My English teacher in junior high school once said, "People outside Japan think that Japanese people have a poor sense of humor."

Another tendency of many Japanese that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".