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Ill start:

"Me cago en tus muertos" - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's correct, you can insult someone accidentally while complimenting them in a similar way. The particles ใฏ (as in wa) and ใŒ (ga) have different connotations that can simply different things.

So saying ใƒกใƒชใƒผใ•ใ‚“ใฎ้ก”ใฏใใ‚Œใ„ (Mary-san no kao wa kirei, "Mary has a beautiful face") causes an implication that Mary has a beautiful face, (... But nothing else about her is beautiful). Changing the ใฏ for ใŒ makes the statement come across as intended.

Without going into detail on the whole wa vs ga thing, wa is more like "as for x..." which can imply a "but..." at the end, whether stated or not, which causes this effect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Inverted "butterface"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the breakdown!