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   マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 08:15:30 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

   I know I already said that #MIU404 on Netflix is great, but I came across a couple of interesting Japanese words or phrases I didn't know before in the 2 episodes I watched tonight:

   強盗 (gōtō), meaning "robbery" (there's even a joke in that episode, because it features a note written in English telling people to go to a konbini to rob it, and one of the detectives mentions it's funny "go to" means robbery in Japanese). But the kanji is nice too, 強 means strong, and 盗 means theft, so 強盗 is a strong theft = robbery.

   The other new one to me is when someone ordered another beer in a izakaya by saying 生ください (nama kudasai). I'm not sure how I never knew this, but 生 in this context means "draft", while I only knew it as meaning "raw", so here it's short for 生ビール (nama biiru =draft beer). ?

   I'll drink to that! ?

   #LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強 #netflix

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     Artist Tomo (artisttomo@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 16:13:07 JST Artist Tomo

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     @mario Hi. Note that ‘to’ of goto sounds not like to of English prepositional ‘to’ but it sounds like toe or tow. It’s like a tower sounds as ‘tou’ which is also like so.

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     マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 16:13:07 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

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     • Artist Tomo

     @Artisttomo I know, it doesn't totally work, but the writers of the show must have thought it was close enough for a pun (and it was written down, rather than spoken I guess) ?

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     マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 17:02:40 JST マリオ (Mario Menti)

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     • euqsetorg

     @euqsetorg very useful! ?

     But I have no idea about 外ください and 中ください. If I had to guess, could it be foreign beer vs Japanese beer?

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     euqsetorg (euqsetorg@mastodon.au)'s status on Friday, 10-Feb-2023 17:02:42 JST euqsetorg

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     @mario

     「大生（だいなま）お願いします。」
     と言うと、サイズと種類を同時に指定できますよ?

     さて、ここでクイズです?

     「外ください」「中ください」と言う注文も
     居酒屋では聞くことがあります。

     これは、何を頼んでいるのでしょう？?

     もう経験済みかもなぁ〜？