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02-16-2010, 08:39 PM

Things that sound "profound" in English will often sound silly or nonsensical in Japanese, and vice-versa. A lot of people who visit these forums ask for translations of similar phrases, and the translation usually doesn't carry the same meaning as it does in the source language.


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