Person name + 的 In a short story I'm reading I found this dialogue: > > > {} > > **{}** ? > > I'm confused about , since is the surname of one of the characters, as confirmed by the last line; it's like it's making the name "fujioka-ical/ish", but I'm not sure what's supposed to mean and I wasn't able to find anything about it; my best guess, it's something like "In my book", "Fujioka thinks that", "What's like Fujioka is thinking that" and so on: Fujioka is saying that according to her opinion it's more strange not having anything one wants to do, instead that having something. I don't think it matters, but I'm not sure also about ? : my guess, leaves the sentence open, softening it and/or asking the other opinion; and the question mark softens the statement by making it a question, almost like Fujioka is not really saying people who don't know what they want to do are strange, rather she is asking about it.

is a way to say "ly speaking, ...", "-wise, ..." or "in terms of ".

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**Personally** , I don't care.
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I'm in trouble **money-wise** , but I'm happy.
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It's a big problem **worldwide**.



This type of is just a suffix to turn a noun into a na-adjective (It's like '-(i)al' as in person **al** , financ **ial** , glob **al** , etc.).

In slangy speech, this is extended to personal pronouns or proper nouns. It's like "from the standpoint of ", but sounds much more slangy and casual.

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**Personally** , I'm fine with it.
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What do _**you**_ think?
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But **if you ask me** , I don't understand someone who doesn't know what they want to do.
(The speaker is herself. See this.)