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alanX 04-21-2009 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM (Post 701078)
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.

:mtongue:

kirakira 04-21-2009 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by alanX (Post 701079)
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.

:mtongue:

You are over analysing some very simple ideas. You'd be much better off advancing a few more chapters in grammar.

MMM 04-21-2009 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by alanX (Post 701079)
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.

:mtongue:

That's not the "beauty of Japanese" but the beauty of language.

What would you say to a girl you were interested in, Alan, to tell her you like her?

alanX 04-21-2009 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by MMM (Post 701099)
That's not the "beauty of Japanese" but the beauty of language.

What would you say to a girl you were interested in, Alan, to tell her you like her?


Hm. Good question. Something like..."ayo girl, lemme' get 'cho numba"


Just kidding. I don't really know. I've never thought about it.


I'm interested to hear about what you would say, MMM. ;)

Aleksei 04-21-2009 12:43 PM

僕は日本語を大好きです。:rheart:

Payne222 04-21-2009 10:14 PM

So basically "daisuki" is like saying "I love you" in English,
it's just the tone in your voice that implies how you mean it, right?

duo797 04-21-2009 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Aleksei (Post 701177)
僕は日本語を大好きです。:rheart:

D: Gotta be careful. You'd say 僕は日本語大好きです。
Reason being that 大好き is an adjective and you never (to my knowledge) use を with adjectives because it indicates a direct object.

Also, for anyone using windows, can someone tell me the shortcut to go between hiragana and roman characters? It's a bit of a hassle having to go down and switch it manually when I'm writing a mixture of kana and letters.

MMM 04-21-2009 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by duo797 (Post 701310)
Also, for anyone using windows, can someone tell me the shortcut to go between hiragana and roman characters? It's a bit of a hassle having to go down and switch it manually when I'm writing a mixture of kana and letters.

Alt+` (left of 1)

duo797 04-21-2009 11:52 PM

Edit: Sorry. Read that as alt + 1. Not alt + ` ありがとうございます

nobora 04-22-2009 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by alanX (Post 701079)
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.

:mtongue:

LOl true thats really true


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