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さすが — Actually, It Isn't *Always* A Compliment

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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I'm Hard to Impress, I Can't Help Laughing About This Because It's Too Funny

In japanese, it can be written as in romag w a r a u. So writing t w w w w became a way of laughing onean. And thenw w w w looks like grass. O, ting cusa became too mean. I l on the intonet. It's in thead, like ot a jorney, from from japanese to english, back to japanese. Do people say that in person these days? I pa, some young people, sa onsa. I've seen people saying like, spending out. R ols, well, agin real life really. Sasegon pears up with emotion related words

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