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08-15-2010, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by StonerPenguin View Post
The point I'm making is it's easy to think "Japanese expressions are weird!" from an English-speaking perspective, but our expressions are pretty damn weird too -- we're just used to them Awesome things are 'the feces' or 'the breasts' haha. Very strange huh?
This is pretty true. I mean, how many of us use or know idioms in english without actually understanding them or why we use them? In fact, pop quiz! How well do you really understand these words?

"To keep mum"
"to pander"
"What the dickens~?"
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