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Easily Confused

Posted on 20. Apr, 2007 @ 1:43 pm by harvey in Language Views: 99

There is a adjective in Japanese for things that are easily confused…

紛らわしい。まぎらわしい pronounced, “magirawashii”, and often translated as confusing, misleading, equivocal, or ambiguous.

For me however, the word itseslf is confusing, as I often mistakenly pronounce it “magiwarashii”.

Heh.

- Harvey

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Michael

Hey, Harvey, how long have you been in Japan? Because it looks like in 2004 and 2005 you got this person all worked up: http://www.tt.rim.or.jp/~rudyard/kaego001.html and http://www.tt.rim.or.jp/~rudyard/kaego015.html . ^_^

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