Like the Southern expression “Bless your heart.”
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Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
It’s sometimes said that Japanese people don’t know and don’t understand sarcasm but really they just have different ways to make you feel stupid that don’t (necessarily) register as sarcasm to Westerners, like being overly polite.
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 day ago
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I didn’t know that they used politeness that way. Interesting. Crazy enough I have not yet interacted with a Japanese person in my life.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The whole StandupComedy has a hold on me like no TikTok could.
ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Hehehe that was funny.
zlatiah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I guess Japanese really doesn’t have in-your-face sarcasm now that I think about it…
Now that you mentioned it, Japanese also has a rather interesting quirk of not having what most people would consider as “swear words”. Read it somewhere that Japanese does have swear words, but they tend to be quite tame, and the words themselves aren’t “taboo” (as compared to just about any swear word in English)
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
Yep, certain words for example really just mean “you” if taken very literally but have taken on rude undertones (temee, kisama) to convey what Western languages would use taboo words for.