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YoshidaYui

(42,665 posts) Mon Jun 7, 2021, 05:18 PM Jun 2021

KUSO 101┃How to Swear Like the Japanese

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KUSO 101┃How to Swear Like the Japanese (Original Post) YoshidaYui Jun 2021 OP

The only Japanese swearing I've heard has been in anime EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #1

Now that I think about it, it was ドラえもん where I learned that expression EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #2

EastMeetsWest

(191 posts)

1. The only Japanese swearing I've heard has been in anime

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Thu Jan 13, 2022, 12:15 AM

Jan 2022

LOL. One time when I was tutoring some kids in their home, I said one of those words I heard in an anime (I think it was ドラえもん　 . Anyway, I mentioned it in one of the classes, thinking that it was OK to say it front of kids because it was in an anime, after all. But ママ became very flustered and I ended up losing that lucrative job. ちくしょう！

EastMeetsWest

(191 posts)

2. Now that I think about it, it was ドラえもん where I learned that expression

Reply to EastMeetsWest (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 13, 2022, 08:35 AM

Jan 2022

In one episode, のび太くん said "ちくしょうあいつら！" which I was told meant something like "Why those lousy bums!" But when I said that to my students when discussing that particular cartoon, ママ had a fit! And it cost me my job, making $60 for talking to kids for an hour

I can laugh about that now...

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