
だ and です: Part I
The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language
Do You Sound Like a Woman?
When you take da out of a sentence, someso, like where we usuall would say dao or dane, but take dot out int, it makes you sound more feminine. A non gay friends would sometimes say t ouht to like, male friends, oke. But it sounds kind of like a old lady, yo, old ladyiye. I guess my best friend is agay in japan. He uses so i think that's true. Maybe maybe the fact that its kind of an assertive word, taking it out makes it sound more like refined. So donem, that's interesting. Well, anything else, like, any other interesting
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