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04-21-2009, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
It's just that none of those words have such rigid meanings...just like in English.

You can say "I like you" to a person in English, and it might have a range of levels or meaning. Same with "I love you".
Yeah, yeah. Context, context, context. Thus, the beauty of Japanese.


I've always thought of the phrase "I like you" as something a 3rd grader would say to his crush on a playground.



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