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Originally Posted by godwine
Again, I could be wrong, given that uncle is one of those extremely old fashioned Japanese that won't even let my girlfriend sleep in the same room with me when we visited Japan
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Nothing "extremely old-fashioned" about that. I wouldn't let my nephew sleep with his girlfriend in my house.
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Originally Posted by Jessica91
oh so thats what japanese slang is like. Now I also know two more japanese words, amazing and I understand! But apart from shortening their phrases and words, do the japanese have other things they say? Here for example, some people put "like" in their sentences (as in "I was like, wow!") and words such as "cool" and "dude" and stuff like that... do the Japanese have that? Now I'm really curious!
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You are applying English values to a completely different language. There is no "like" or "dude" in Japanese. Without speaking Japanese it is difficult to understand.