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  1. diligentcircle

    Is Trump ruining America's reputation and influence abroad?

    Oof... some of my more embarrassing old posts are in this thread. Makes me want to puke seeing them again. (x.x)
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    Are ザズゼゾ pronounced differently with loanwords as compared with original Japanese words?

    Chances are it's just your brain correcting anomalies you're hearing. Your perception of what you hear is warped by things like what you see and past experience, so if you've grown up all your life speaking English and you hear something that comes from English but sounds significantly...
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    いくあよ?

    I'm not familiar with the show, but was the third syllable you heard わ, perhaps?
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    Question Question about "I appreciate you"

    I think it's non-standard, but I've heard it many times in practice.
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    Do these sentences sound natural?

    I've used these types of expressions in online communication, but that being said, it's true that this mode is uncommon in oral speech. It's also highly formal in written speech, which tends to be what I use it for. For example, if I'm having a serious, civil debate with someone, this manner of...
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    The thing about ending a sentence with a preposition is spurious nonsense. That's the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
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    Police boredom and over-policing

    Ha, I've seen stuff like that where I live (it's a really safe town). Not quite that petty, though! 🤣
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    Are you sure? AFAICT no native Japanese people are contributing to this topic at all. That's always seemed more typical to me. Isn't that a contradiction?
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    And what do you think of the proposal I suggested above, which after all has nothing to do with the education system (the only thing you talk about in your last post)? This is the problem I see: you're still arguing over a point that no one ever disagreed with you on (your claim that change is...
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    Suicide won't help, either, so I'd like to tell a personal anecdote: the fact that none of my workplaces have ever had sex-assigned dress codes was a contributing factor to saving my life. Gender dysphoria is very distressing, and transitioning is very hard. That little bit of stability, not...
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    That doesn't answer his question. Do you think it's necessary and appropriate to allow companies to force their female employees to wear high heels? Because you refuse to take a stance on this issue and instead talking about change in general, the only way to interpret your view, currently, is...
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    That's... an understatement. What you're describing is foot binding, an ancient Chinese practice where little girls' feet were compressed in a way that deformed them, and I think literally involved breaking bones several times. It's a disgusting practice thankfully outlawed in the 20th Century...
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    I don't know much about that, but even if Japan changes back to that, that's rather tangential to what I'm saying because we'd then be talking about two massive changes instead of just one. The point is, I don't think Japan is incapable of changing something as trivial as company dress codes.
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Japan evolved from a failed militaristic empire into one of if not the greatest economic powerhouse with very little military presence that sets a positive example for the rest of the world. If that sort of change was possible, I think it's possible to get...
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    Didn't the modern fashion trend start with a short queen? I seem to remember reading that somewhere, though I can't remember where. Eh, whatever. Damaging fashion is damaging fashion regardless of where it came from. (Still better than foot binding, though... even thinking about that ancient...
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    Question Paul and I love dogs a lot/very much

    Yes, you can, but it has a different connotation, as I explained. That sentence refers to what you should do for their sake, not for your sake or the sake of your classroom (which, so far as I can tell, is what you actually meant). Consider the word "mistreat". "Treat", in that sense, is the...
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    Question Paul and I love dogs a lot/very much

    No, that's perfectly fine. But the "that way" portion is required. Other examples, bolding similar key words: "I don't know how to treat her." "He doesn't treat me well." "You're treating me very poorly." Also, and this is important, this kind of expression always refers to whether or not...
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    Question Paul and I love dogs a lot/very much

    "Treating" is incorrect here. "Treating", in a way that makes sense in this context, would refer to what a physician would do for a patient. I think you mean "dealing with", given the surrounding context.
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    Labour minister: high heels at work necessary

    I don't know about Darwin Award... I don't see how saying that is going to kill him. But it's true that requiring high heels is unreasonable. (High heels cause damage and deformities to the foot.) And FWIW I don't think it's reasonable for an employer to have sex-assigned dress codes at all...
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    Question Paul and I love dogs a lot/very much

    Yeah, they would. I wouldn't say they're interchangeable, but they're mostly the same. The difference is in magnitude: (c) and (a) in particular are much more strong than the others, and "love" is a bit stronger than "like" in all cases. In fact (c) is so strong that it gives the impression...
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