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Surprised you didn't mention that 蝸 looks a lot like a snail (side view) with body on the left and the shell on the right

The emotion fits the joke really well! 😂

Good points. Finally someone not telling me Japanese don't speak Japanese at all (I was told Japanese people don't eat their popular dishes, because these are tourists food...). Also, English is poor, when it comes to swearing, Slavic languages for example have a lot of different expressions that count as swearing (Romance languages, too). And totally agree with vulgarities in Asian languages - it's just expressed differently.

Haha, I like your deep explanation 🫶

Caught the bs midway

Love how you went into detail and gave lots of examples! I'm not sure when I would use this expression but this was fun to watch

reminds me of the fighting game slang ベガ立ち (begatachi, that is, "dictator/m.bison-stance"), for people who stand in the back of the arcade and watch with their arms cross (like m.bison). for example, a ベガ立ち group might form if someone really good starts playing and people don't want their butt kicked.

I did not expect to see Zyzz being mentioned in this video

Me, an old metalhead, who is not in for the pit anymore.

Looking at the kanji i thought it meant "cuck face" lol

Lol you almost had me for a second.

二日本　(futani)

This is why i pay for internet

I wonder if most Japanese teens dislike dad jokes and humor. Is there even such a concept as "dad jokes" in Japan?

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And then there were 二本

1:34 how does eiyade mean try hard and be lazy at the same time!?

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😂😂😂

根本的な日本

Oh snap you’re on RUclips as well

4:03 where did you find that video? it's so cute!

Always love your videos! The deep dives like these on niche concepts and language usage/history are so cool to me as someone who's been studying for a few years at this point, especially in the sea of content targeted towards beginners and intermediates, so thanks for putting these videos out!

I grew up in the '60's and '70's referring to flip-flops as "zorries" without knowing the Japanese origin of the word. It was not until I saw a subtitled Japanese film where they put straw "zori" on corpses in preparation for a funeral that I realized the truth. The shoes were also called "thongs" back then. I don’t remember hearing them called "flip-flops" until the '80's, presumably to differentiate them from a style of underwear that was just coming into vogue.

Nothing surprises me with Japanese grammar, but this one I'm not sure!

Bro thinks he is Arya Stark

2:14 “Pernicious”, thank you very much sir for not limiting yourself to just adding to my Japanese vocabulary.

It’s time to remove that hair :/

Would you be willing to make a video about weasel words in Japanese? Since Japanese seems naturally more ambiguous than English, I wonder how the concept differs. I thought this video was about that, although I love weasels, so it was a pleasant surprise.

As someone with interest in both Japanese and dad jokes, I know the algorithm just HAD to bring me here at some point

While mongooses technically aren't cats they are part of the same suborder "Feliformia" (So related to cats, hyenas, meerkats etc.) so in the same way a sea lion is a dog (And also a bear, look it up) a mongoose is a cat (But not really).

JESUS i wasnt ready for that intro 😂😂😂

And if you're surrounded by weasels it's イタタれている

I now know why Zangoose, the Pokémon that is based on a mongoose, is called the "Cat Ferret Pokémon".

While watching, I'm thinking about how is this evident in the Philippines. Because we've been colonized by Spain and US, their words have been part of our everyday vocabulary even though we have our own equivalent... like berde (verde) = 'luntian' and presidente (president) = 'pangulo'.

Looking for an opportunity to use "weasel's last fart" in English now

Fascinating from a Chinese language perspective how some things change and others stay the same :) I imagine you might have already covered this somewhere but was curious when one might use neko for cat, and when one might say byoo instead. Saw a piece of game media that invented a word "lighting cat" rai - neko, and it seemed like byoo might be a more appropriate usage for that combination, but not sure what sounds more natural

One thing on the last point, I've noticed in a lot of anime characters will get up set if a friend is using keigo for to long or to often because it implies a distance between them. Or like you said, switching back to keigo when someone gets mad/upset to show that they are treating them coldly on purpose. By using "polite" speech, the person is actually being impolite.

象 definitely looks like what it represents than 鼠 to me, you got the trunk at the top with 𫩏 being the head and the rest the body and legs

Hoooly crap what was that death metal illustration???????????? Genuinely curious

Ferret/mustelid enjoyer gigachad.

Speaking of neko that aren't cats: can you do a etymological history on Umineko ie seagull? Why are the sea cats?

Hi!, love your videos, thanks for sharing your knowledge with the frequent uploads! Just wanted to add that probably the reason why you can't find words that use the on'yomi of 鼬 is because like many other characters that mostly only use kun'yomi, the on'yomi comes from the chinese reading of the character and there's just not enough or any words where the japanese needed to use the on'yomi, but it still technically has an on'yomi reading.

What do you use for your dictionary graphics?

very lovely video, I am a Wikipedia editor but not a Japanese Wikipedia editor, I don't think you can exactly cite RUclips shorts, but that would be very funny :)

When you thought ヌクモリティ meant thermal T(shirt) 😂

Thanks for doing my recommendation! Weasels are wonderful, aren't they?

かまいたちの夜 fans where are you

This was such a neat dive into a bunch of unique phrases around animal behaviour that helps to highlight what makes idioms so complex! One on a different critter that always comes to mind for me is 「ムカデがつがいで行動している」because the concept ended up being used as a theme in a few games. I remember personally seeing it first in the 1993 SNES *_Goof Troop_* game with it having a twin centipede boss, and then years later I noticed *_Elden Ring_* using the same theme of twin centipedes for a whole branch of symbolism, which is what made me go poking around to find that phrase. Might be an interesting bit of trivia for you to dig into, as it seems there're some interesting concepts that may have some unique phrases aside from that one.

I see the way you Mustelid that pun in there.