this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

They’re not wrong

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... They're not fucking wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Too fucking right

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Well they're not wrong lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the word "yo" (used as an intensifier) has overlapping uses in English and Japanese. For example, the sentence "Let's go, yo!" would be "Ikou, yo!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Japanese also has quite a few borrow-words/loan-words from English too.

You can have some really English-sounding Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4AiEqKGto lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sale is french for dirty :-)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Who doesn't want to buy some FUCKIN'? It's 20% off, after all.