Japanese Grammar Makes No Sense

3. The copula "verb" is や ya (や) is used instead of da (だ) for copula "be" yanai (やない) is used instead of dewanai/janai (ではない/じゃない) 4. Long vowel sounds at the end of words are often shortened. souda (そうだ), "that's how it is", gets shortened to soya (そや), and ikou (行こう), "Let's go", gets shortened to iko (行こ) 5. Confusingly, short vowel sounds at the end of words are often lengthened. -te+mi (てみ), the "trying out" verb form, tends to become -te+mii te (手), "hand", tends to become te- (手—) instead ki (木), "tree", tends to become ki- (木—) instead 6. The glottal stop (っ) is usually turned into a double vowel, or slurred shimatta (しまった), used to illustrate inadvertent action, is slurred 7. Colloquially, there is nothing like a good slur. omoshiroi (面白い) becomes omoroi (おもろい), but is colloquially kimoi (きもい) To make matters even worse (or not!), kansaiben has word accents more emphatically expressive, and sounds funkier because it's less The grammar The rules of grammar differ between toukyouben (tokyo dialect) and kansaiben (the dialect of the...)

Это скриншот поста Reddit с фотографией страницы о разговорных особенностях кансайбэна. На странице утверждается, что японские окончания и звуки сокращаются, удлиняются или смазываются, а красные пометки подчёркивают противоречивые примеры. Шутка в том, что объяснение грамматики само выглядит настолько запутанным и нелогичным, что автор реагирует: «Bruh what???». EN: This is a Reddit post showing a photographed page about colloquial features of Kansai-ben. The page claims that Japanese endings and sounds are shortened, lengthened, or slurred, while red annotations highlight the contradictory examples. The joke is that the grammar explanation looks so confusing and illogical that the poster reacts with “Bruh what???”

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