"Hey is today payday?" "Yes honey." "#%()#) where is my money?!" "Not the contextually appropriate way to say that." "It's cool yo."
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I don't routinely have this sort of problem in Japanese anymore but a long time ago: Friend: Can you tone down the politeness a little? It's... weird. Me: I am afraid that I cannot. Friend: Creepy dude. Me: Begging your pardon but I am linguistically incapable of it at present.
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(To compress a lesson into a tweet: there's an informal register which kids grow up speaking and one uses with one's friend. Japanese has several polite versions available, including e.g. the one you use in most workplace conversations. That was least formal thing I could use.)
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("How bad were you at this?" For "Got a sec?", to a close friend I was interrupting: Contextually appropriate: ちょっといい? Me: ちょっとよろしいでしょうか? It's not wrong if addressing e.g. bucho at the office but yeah I weirded people out a lot.)
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Have a Chinese friend who loves Breaking Bad so much. They can say only about five words in English but one is “Pinkman” :)pic.twitter.com/NUODEXxolY
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And the b word?
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This is exactly how I became fluent in English, except substitute Lethal Weapon 1/2 and Die Hard for Breaking Bad.
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Has she at least learned the fundamentals of English pleasantries?pic.twitter.com/A29o8F0THg
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She may be pleased to learn that Pinkman's lawyer has studied your teachingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKa0kBdiq7I …
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