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Takashionary introduces unique Japanese slang & idioms (Posted by Takashi, a native Japanese speaker and PhD in Natural Language Processing) 面白い日本語を英語で紹介しています
Aug 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Today marks the 4th anniversary of takashionary.com!
Since I've also got quite a few new followers recently (thanks😊), let me introduce a bit about my website as well as about myself!

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#MyTwitterAnniversary Image First, recently I've made a Japanese synonym finder (thesaurus) where you can look up a Japanese word and check its synonyms (with English glosses). This is something that I hope to develop further, as I am such a thesaurus lover (as you might guess).
takashionary.com/japanese-synon…

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Aug 26, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Since I see the trend of sharing “untranslatable” Japanese phrases, I’m jumping on the bandwagon and sharing some that I selected from a Japanese perspective.

A thread: 1. 遠慮のかたまり (enryo no katamari)

In the Kansai dialect, it literally means "piece of refrainment" and indicates the last piece of food on a shared plate by multiple people, i.e. the last portion on a plate that everyone feels hesitant to reach for.