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Originally Posted by chryuop
hahahaha Kyle, you translation just made me notice one thing. In both English and Japanese "before" can mean before in time or in front of.
Just a stupid thing I noticed....never mind me LOL.
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Yes, that was tricky for me when I was first learning Japanese and Chinese. I always wondered "why does it mean 'in front' but it's talking about a time behind me?"
But someone pointed out to me it's better to think of it this way: You can see your 前 but not your 後ろ. However, with time, you can see what happened 前に, but not what will happen 後で.
So what you can see is 前. What you cannot is 後.