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Is this feminine or backward Japanese?
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IronFist
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11 January 2010 at 9:16pm | IP Logged

wildweathel wrote:

は (topic marker) and わ (assertive particle) are distinguished by the fact that わ cannot directly follow a noun

I didn't know that. I'd never seen any specific rules about feminine speech. I'd just heard that "women sometimes end a sentence with 'wa'." So when I heard a sentence spoken by a woman ending with "wa" I assumed it was feminine speech.

Thanks.
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nhk9
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01 February 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged

There are no rules regarding feminine speech, just some characteristics:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%B3%E6%80%A7%E8%AA%9E

I've heard that the phenomenon of using certain endings is decreasing (such as -kashira)
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