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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oblivion-ass conversation

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It being textbook standard 敬語 really cements that.

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • “I saw a mud crab a couple of days ago. Nasty creatures!”
  • “Farewell!”

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve fought mud crabs more fearsome than you.
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  • the_trash_man@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    cough

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• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can read that!! I wasn’t really confident about it but a month of practice and I can see progress!

  Also, yeah. I too think that’s a conversation two Japanese people would have in a safari.

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    よくできました

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    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ありがとう！

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But tigers and pumas come from different continents, and neither of those continents are Africa.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe they are in a big cat sanctuary

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe the two can’t tell the difference between large felines.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think a big cat sanctuary counts as a “safari in Africa.”

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s mistranslated. They say hyō which is leopard. Puma is pyuuma.

    So the leopard could be in Africa or the tiger and leopard could be together in India. Still wrong but slightly less so.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why the one guy thinks the other is lying.

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  • WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    um - - it’s a video game called Africa? maybe. Nintendo is completely out of ideas. They’re lazily flipping through pages of Encyclopedia Britannica and stuffing content into a game. The result isn’t great but it’s standard fare for them

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• earthfm@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Farewell

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  (it’s not a lie)

  Like, someone doing the test is also not going to believe a tiger made it all the way to Africa.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or a puma for that matter. Or maybe they’re just visiting a zoo.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i saw a cougar the other day. it made me puma pants.

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  • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    profile pic checks out

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Excuse me butt Profile Pic ain’t got pants

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• Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s an old Chinese proverb: lies are like tigers; they are bad!

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this a polite conversation? I feel like it’s impolite to say that someone’s lying. It’s also impolite to lie (with a lot of caveats, but it’s at least impolite if it’s an obvious lie), so you don’t need to pretend to believe a person who’s trying to deceive you, but just accusing someone of lies without checking is rude.

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  • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Although うそ literally means “it’s a lie”, it should have been translated to “Really?”

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you ! That’s why it’s important that the language textbook labels this as polite. When students ask about it, they’ll learn about either a linguistic or cultural difference that could make communication more difficult, if it’s not addressed.

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t it even be more accurate to translate it as “You’re lying!?”. Not sure it would fit the “polite” tone, but then again, they’re about to be eaten by a tiger and/or a puma.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s polite in the grammar sense. Japanese uses different verb endings depending on the level of politeness. Speaker A is using polite form while B uses casual form. This is normal when the speakers are not on the same social/hierarchical level. Like conversation between an employee and a boss, or a young person and an older person.

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  • ProfessorScience@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also A is using polite sentence endings. 〜ます, 〜ました, and です.

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• Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sayonara

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• Neural_drift@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  豹:いただきます。

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like they travelled there for the big cat conference

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• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  残念だな。

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• davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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