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08-01-2008, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by lucagalbu View Post
Gon is actually answering a precise question: IN which hand is the coin?
So the hand is supposed to be a place, not a tool (the question is not "which hand I'm using to hide the coin" or something like that)....
What's the question in Japanese? (Not the subtitles). Please write the whole exchange.

Japanese and English do not translate directly in many situations, so things like "place" and "tool/means of doing something" are not always the same in both languages.

He could be saying "Hidari de [ikimashyou]" meaning "Let's go with left" which is still the "tool/by means of" us of DE.
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