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  2. Japanese wordplay - Wikipedia

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    39 can be read as "san-kyū", referring to "thank you" in English. 44 can be read as "yo-yo" and is thus a common slang term in the international competitive yo-yo community, which has a strong Japanese presence. 56, read as "ko-ro", is used in 56す, an alternate spelling of the verb "korosu" (殺す, to kill) used on the internet to avoid ...

  3. Honorific speech in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to, and Japanese often avoids pronouns entirely in favor of more explicit titles or kinship terms.

  4. The Japanese the Japanese Don't Know - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese That The Japanese Don't Know (Japanese: 日本人の知らない日本語, Hepburn: Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo) is a manga and television series about a Japanese teacher and her students written by Takayuki Tomita and Umino Nagiko. It discusses the background of Japanese words and speech.

  5. Easy Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Easy Japanese (やさしい日本語, yasashii nihongo) refers to a simplified version of the Japanese language that is easy to understand for children and foreigners who have limited proficiency in the Japanese language by using simple expressions, simplified sentence structure, and added furigana (kana indicating pronunciation) to kanji characters.

  6. Nihon Kokugo Daijiten - Wikipedia

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    The Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (日本国語大辞典), also known as the Nikkoku (日国) and in English as Shogakukan's Unabridged Dictionary of the Japanese Language, is the largest Japanese language dictionary published.

  7. File:Thank you in many languages, b&w.png - Wikipedia

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    You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses ...

  8. Japanese pronouns - Wikipedia

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    you, often translated as "thou" both Spelled as なむち namuchi in the most ancient texts and later as なんち nanchi or なんぢ nanji. onushi: おぬし 御主, お主 you both Used by elders and samurai to talk to people of equal or lower rank. Literally means "master". sonata: そなた 其方 (rarely used) you both

  9. Template talk:Nihongo - Wikipedia

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    You can notice the difference in test cases 69 and 70 of nihongo and test case 46 of nihongo krt (nihongo3 and nihongo foot are unaffected by kerning problems). Since adding the   is invisible, amongst only 3 syntax cases and improves the visibility and accessibility of the formatted output, I doubt this would create objections in the ...