Re: [Lingo] 上手･上手い

[Stuart Luppescu <slu@example.com>]

On 水, 2009-03-18 at 04:50 +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> Not quite. 上手い usually means "excellent", whereas 上手 is almost
> always used to mean "skillful" or "good at". For example, some 焼きそ
> ば can be 上手い (actually, it would usually be written with just the
> hiragana うまい, AFAIK),

I seem to remember hearing 上手い　spoken as じょうずい as a slang,
jocular term (in which case it would have the ``skillful'' meaning).
Also, from my experience, perhaps warped by reading mainly 漫画, the
most common ways to write うまい in the ``tasty'' meaning are 
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