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Decimus (Offline)
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12-13-2010, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by JamboP26 View Post
I'm not complaining about the language, it's beautiful. I'm just stating the fact, as being Scottish, I hate being called British. This would make it worse because it would be like being called English. But your right, my Japanese vocab isn't big enough, but maybe thats because I started learning recently
I think Masaegu's point was that there are different words for "British", "English", "Welsh", "Scottish", and "Irish" in Japanese, and therefore complaining that you are annoyed because Japanese doesn't make a distinction between "British" and "English" is just a severe misconception arising from your limited vocabulary instead of any fault of the Japanese language. Or, as he put it succinctly:

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Originally Posted by masaegu View Post
デタラメ言ってんじゃねーよ! お前の語彙力が不足してるだけだろがっ!
Jambo, I think you might find this article to be useful.

Last edited by Decimus : 12-13-2010 at 09:04 PM.
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