Ruriko has been watching Breaking Bad to practice her English, which has been working a little too well, particularly since she does not realize when she is not channeling "native English speaker" and instead channeling "Jesse Pinkman."
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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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tell her i said to f*** shit up!


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This is a great experiment. Please do The Wire next.
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Yess!! I can totally relate to her! I believe I (if I want to) can pass as British and/or American - “but not from where I’m from” - at will, but I swear at a rate that, only now with kids in elementary school, do I realize is a real fucking problem.
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Good Place next.
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its vivid, if nothing else!
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Me: だいじょうぶ、ね? Totally have the opposite problem, have learned all my speaking from close family, nieces and nephews. Phrases like a 14 year old girl. Thankfully my Japanese director is cool with it.
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