What is 漕ぎに来てくれるフラグ in English?


これは漕ぎに来てくれるフラグ?

I read that on twitter. This is the tweet, if it helps to make sense of it.

自信…なくないです( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ笑RT @yamadamic: あらマオにゃん!これは漕ぎに来てくれるフラグ?（笑） RT @mao_sid:
出勤時に聴いてましたよ（＾∇＾）RT @mizuuchitakeshi: 楽しかった(^O^)やまちゃんありがとう～汗だくだ…

All that I understand is that it says, "Is this **___ __ ___ __**?"




`フラグ` started to be used recently as an internet slang. It means an 'advance
hint', 'indication of something that will happen later', or 'some fact that
will make much sense when some other fact is revealed later'. It is woven into
the context intentionally (as in detective stories) or it happens non-
intentionally. A normal way of saying it is `伏線`.

It comes from the English 'flag', whose relevant usage is, according to my
speculation, a global boolean variable used in computer programming to keep
the state of something and is used later.




`フラグ` started to be used recently as an internet slang. It means an 'advance
hint', 'indication of something that will happen later', or 'some fact that
will make much sense when some other fact is revealed later'. It is woven into
the context intentionally (as in detective stories) or it happens non-
intentionally. A normal way of saying it is `伏線`.

It comes from the English 'flag', whose relevant usage is, according to my
speculation, a global boolean variable used in computer programming to keep
the state of something and is used later.

