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ありがとう! - 06-26-2008, 03:11 PM

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English tries to take shortcuts and make sentences as short as possible without being hard to read. for example when we use "Don't' for Do not
"wouldn't" for Would not and 'i've' for I have.
It's interesting.

We do the similer things with nowns in Japanese.

I will give you some quiz!

Can you guess what they meant?

1)ジャパレス
2)パソコン
3)ファミレス
4)デパ地下(ちか)
5)マック(in Tokyo) or マクド(in Osaka)

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...I think I made that even more confusing then it should be >< sorry!
no no no don't be sorry !
I rather enjoyed it! Thank you

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I'm not criticising you. I'm just putting this incase she asks 'why could or would?'
Yes I would have asked!

now it's bery clear the difference between "could" and "would".
Thank you ありがとう~


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