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04-15-2008, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MrDrEsq View Post
-interesting- I heard recently that Tokyo, following Meiji, actually imported choice parts of the kyoto area dialect to replace the rougher sounding native edo dialect. The one example i have is 行くべい being replaced by the now standard 行きましょう (apparently, that style of speech is or was associated with Kyoto, and therefore, kansai).
so, if you mean vulgar in the sense of common place, then kansai is not the place to generalize.
mecha kansai pride!
I had never heard that before. Interesting stuff. Sometimes people forget that Kyoto was the capital before Tokyo.
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