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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language


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There are lots of "untranslatable" words in Japanese, like the salutation お疲れ様 ( otsukare-sama), roughly meaning "I appreciate the hard work you've been doing", and もったいない ( mottainai) for "it would be a pity not to enjoy that to its fullest value". Exotic-sounding grammar features like the subject-object-verb sentence structure (i.e. "anteater ant eat") and the lack of important-sounding grammatical elements like articles ("the", "a"), any singular-plural distinction, and most verb tenses familiar to English/Romance language speakers. Source: Noragami, cited by japanesewithanime.com (CC BY-SA 4.0) Yato 夜ト, who is a God fighting spiritual beings related to human's negative feelings, goes to the hospital make [sic] a visit to someone...

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