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06-13-2008, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee View Post
I felt the same thing from the original Japanese. While I wouldn't call this figurative speech, I really think that 'warm light' is an indirect way of expressing the tender, loving family atmosphere at dinner time or after dinner inside the house.
So I was actually right? Maybe I unleased a Japanese language gene into my system.

That's one of the fun, but frustrating things about deep language learning. Sometimes I know exactly what something means in Japanese, but I don't know how to describe it in English.
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