First-Person Pronouns: When Female Speakers Use 僕 or 俺
The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language
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What Do You Think of Females Who Use Pokore in Public?
"I am jealous of men, because they can use ore, boke and wata, depending on the occasion," she says. "We just want a pronoun that we can use to talk to others as equals not being too formal or flattering someone." She also talks about how some women are like tweeter inflencer fuka harena who was born in two thousand one an it using a fan at the age of three,. And for her usage of boke pronoun, she said, older women use watashe as first person pronoun.
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