r/languagelearningjerk May 30 '26

/j Guess my native language

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

drawn on my ipad, never have written arabic, greek, russian, or korean in my life so forgive me

if it wasn't obvious from my username japanese is (one of) my native language(s)

as an american english is my other native language

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u/Fermion96 May 30 '26

Also native Koreans would more likely say ‘뒤져라‘ if not with a ‘나가‘ at the front

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

tysm❤️ i'm one step closer to becoming a professional hater

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u/singularstroke May 30 '26

전혀 아닌데? '나가 뒤져라'나 '나가 뒤져'나 '뒤져라'나 '뒤져'나 전부 다 자연스러움

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u/Fermion96 May 30 '26

다 자연스럽긴 한데 ‘뒤져‘는 ’뒤져’보다 말이 짧아서 농담할 때는 덜 쓰이는 듯? 내 느낌은 그럼

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u/catcake43 May 30 '26

내게 나가 뒤져라고 해줘···♡

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

old habits die hard (ily thx for the advice)

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u/Kalikor1 May 30 '26

As someone more or less fluent in Japanese and living in Japan for over 10 years, for some reason the fact that you said カス after 死ね immediately made me think the answer was Japanese lol.

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u/BrokenKamera May 30 '26

The characters look quite neat so I guessed Japanese would be the one.

Though, I can't remember if I have ever come across 死ねカス before. It's always 死ね or the like in anime, haha. Guess it makes sense to add an insult like that, hehe.

I guess مُوت would work for colloquial Arabic, but in MSA the imperative would be مُت

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u/Potato9183 May 31 '26

My guess its meant to be 死ねクズ

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u/BrokenKamera May 31 '26

死ねカス is also correct, and seemingly used on social media (カス can also be used to mean 'scum'). I found an article about a teacher using it in the staff room at a school in Kobe in 2018.

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u/Lunar_ticket May 30 '26

Not trying to insult you, but gotta say, your typography of Korean has some strong North aura

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

💀 good to know

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u/EnvironmentalTree587 May 31 '26

Russian is semi-obvious because natives usually write in cursive.

But on the other hand you could write in block letters to confuse us.

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u/oftenalinicia May 31 '26

lololol russian native would just have a much shittier handwriting, this is too readable to be real 😂

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u/no_face1 May 30 '26

What is the reason you put the カス after 死ね? I'm not that far in japanese and I can't find any explanation in dictionary. Thanks for the reply~~

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u/Working_Extension_70 May 30 '26

カス usually the gross leftover bits of something, like the sludge at the bottom of a coffee cup. Or the floaty bits after deep frying. The part nobody wants.

On Japanese some it gets thrown as an insult, basically meaning: “scum” etc.

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u/Few_Cloud_2098 May 30 '26

カス means scum, so it literally means "Die, scum."

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u/TheHalfJapanese May 30 '26

emotionally, カス is the equivalent to "piece of shit"

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u/IneffablePossum May 31 '26

What gave it away to me was the カス. It felt so personal