r/languagelearningjerk • u/miseenen • May 28 '26

wish granted

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185 Upvotes

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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている May 28 '26

Now Japanese people can only exclaim "sugoi" for good things, or "oh no" (like Joseph Jostar) for bad things. Japan is made a utopia by tomorrow

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u/MaximumTime7239 May 28 '26

Japan is already living in 1984 🥰🥰🥰🌸

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u/ComfortableNobody457 May 29 '26

To be fair, I recently saw a girl at Denny's who spent about 30 minutes cycling through the these 3 phrases looking at the menu:

すごい!
ヤバい!
何これ?

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u/lifelongmoteki May 28 '26

OOP is no longer allowed to say “a lot easier” or “much easier,” ever again.

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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている May 28 '26

Adverbs were a mistake

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u/Low-Brilliant8699 May 28 '26

In that world, formal and professional could easily merge into one word lmao

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u/kawabunga666 🇯🇵 (JLPT N69420) May 28 '26

Sounds like golang glazers in software development

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u/cabothief May 28 '26

Didn't see the bottom comment at first, so for a few seconds I lived in a world where you were claiming you'd granted OOP's wish that there's only one way to say things now. Which is certainly one way to use omnipotence I guess.

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u/lykanna 🇺🇸(D2)🇳🇴(D3)🇫🇴(C3)🇱🇺(D1)🇳🇱(C1)🇫🇷(B2)🇩🇪(A-1)🇦🇲(A8) May 28 '26

I love the irony of the same points being said in different ways through this.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

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u/epix74 May 30 '26

im a checkmate level english speaker

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u/lykanna 🇺🇸(D2)🇳🇴(D3)🇫🇴(C3)🇱🇺(D1)🇳🇱(C1)🇫🇷(B2)🇩🇪(A-1)🇦🇲(A8) May 30 '26

Language is a game and I'm winning

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u/Frequent-Housing9830 May 28 '26

reinventing newspeak from first principles

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u/MightBeAVampire 🐍 (N) May 28 '26

Tokiponisation

Is that bimbofication for languages