Ruriko has been watching Breaking Bad to practice her English, which has been working a little too well, particularly since she does not realize when she is not channeling "native English speaker" and instead channeling "Jesse Pinkman."
"Hey is today payday?"
"Yes honey."
"#%()#) where is my money?!"
"Not the contextually appropriate way to say that."
"It's cool yo."
"Yes honey."
"#%()#) where is my money?!"
"Not the contextually appropriate way to say that."
"It's cool yo."
I don't routinely have this sort of problem in Japanese anymore but a long time ago:
Friend: Can you tone down the politeness a little? It's... weird.
Me: I am afraid that I cannot.
Friend: Creepy dude.
Me: Begging your pardon but I am linguistically incapable of it at present.
Friend: Can you tone down the politeness a little? It's... weird.
Me: I am afraid that I cannot.
Friend: Creepy dude.
Me: Begging your pardon but I am linguistically incapable of it at present.
(To compress a lesson into a tweet: there's an informal register which kids grow up speaking and one uses with one's friend. Japanese has several polite versions available, including e.g. the one you use in most workplace conversations. That was least formal thing I could use.)
("How bad were you at this?"
For "Got a sec?", to a close friend I was interrupting:
Contextually appropriate: ちょっといい？
Me: ちょっとよろしいでしょうか？
It's not wrong if addressing e.g. bucho at the office but yeah I weirded people out a lot.)
For "Got a sec?", to a close friend I was interrupting:
Contextually appropriate: ちょっといい？
Me: ちょっとよろしいでしょうか？
It's not wrong if addressing e.g. bucho at the office but yeah I weirded people out a lot.)
