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To: chajin

“Idiot do it”


29 posted on 07/07/2015 10:31:55 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
“Idiot do it”

Baka (stupid, idiot) is about as nasty a term as one can say in Japanese about someone else. The phrase would mean something like "it's stupid" or "you're an idiot."

Interestingly enough, the word is written with the kanji for horse and deer. In a sense, it is like calling someone an ass (i.e., donkey, not the derriere, which technically is "arse") in English, though the Japanese don't think of the horse or the deer as being stubbornly stupid, the way English speakers think of the jackass.

32 posted on 07/07/2015 10:38:05 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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