From 2fa6b70303555dced398d9becf77c73b96c1b474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kellen Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 20:13:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Update=2075-japanese-is-not-english-how-express?= =?UTF-8?q?ion-strategies-differ-polite-=E8=8B=B1=E6=9C=AC=E8=AA=9E-rude-j?= =?UTF-8?q?apanese.md?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- ...olite-\350\213\261\346\234\254\350\252\236-rude-japanese.md" | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git "a/config/docs/75-japanese-is-not-english-how-expression-strategies-differ-polite-\350\213\261\346\234\254\350\252\236-rude-japanese.md" "b/config/docs/75-japanese-is-not-english-how-expression-strategies-differ-polite-\350\213\261\346\234\254\350\252\236-rude-japanese.md" index c8c905bc..fc9d762e 100644 --- "a/config/docs/75-japanese-is-not-english-how-expression-strategies-differ-polite-\350\213\261\346\234\254\350\252\236-rude-japanese.md" +++ "b/config/docs/75-japanese-is-not-english-how-expression-strategies-differ-polite-\350\213\261\346\234\254\350\252\236-rude-japanese.md" @@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ If in English we say something like that dog or that treeさくらとその犬 means Sakura and a dog related to her, in other words, Sakura and her dog. And this ability of その to express things like possession and relatedness gives rise to a whole range of strategies. But once we understand what it means, they're much easier to understand. So, for example, the simple Sanseido Japanese dictionary defines the word 立ち会う, which can't really be translated into any particular English word because what it means is go to a particular place in the capacity of a witness or act in the capacity of a witness.