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| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5464 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 25 of 25 26 April 2010 at 1:07am | IP Logged |
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I was once in a very heated argument with a Japanese man and I was so angry that I
resorted to English, using all the outrageous English swearwords I could think of - stuff that would have instantly gotten me into huge trouble with a native speaker. In the middle of my tirade I said "You stupid *****" and the man picked up on the word "stupid", translated it into "baka" in his mind, and immediately became massively aggressive, threatening me with the golf club he happened to be holding at the time. I managed to escape, and after calming down I kind of saw the funny side, the fact that he had completely ignored being called a c and a f and so on and so on but went crazy when I called him "stupid", a word that would rarely cause such huge offense in an English-speaking country. DISCLAIMER: I am not in the habit of getting into big arguments with Japanese men holding golf clubs! The experience was unique in my 14 years in Japan and hopefully never to be repeated! 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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