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さすが — The Best Compliment You Can Get in Japanese

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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A Lazy Person's Compliment

"I got kind of puzzled, yesi can wdo you mean by that? I can see that, like, maybe she gave me the compliment of my clothes, cause i would wear my grandma's clothes, like, hard cut, old clothing,. So maybe that was it. Dont puzzled. Can you? Can you say, like, what what do you mean by saciga?" "Do you think it can come off rude to ask?", he asks her. 'Yes," she replies. "'You're a lazy deteenye,'  she says in reply." Ye, my hid right in tar o ilas, like lazy deteenYE!" He then comes up with

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