I Love You

[alanX]

Originally Posted by MMM

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.

[kirakira]

Originally Posted by alanX

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.

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

[MMM]

Originally Posted by alanX

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.

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]

Originally Posted by MMM

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]

僕は日本語を大好きです。

[Payne222]

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]

Originally Posted by Aleksei

僕は日本語を大好きです。

D: Gotta be careful. You'd say 僕は日本語が大好きです。
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]

Originally Posted by duo797

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]

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

[nobora]

Originally Posted by alanX

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.

LOl true thats really true