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  1. Sun, 03-23-2008, 01:24 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Junior
    I have a question about the word 'kudasai'. It's used always with a verb right? But 'onegai' can be used alone?
    I think kudasai is for making a request, like "please be quiet", while onegai(shimasu) is used when requesting something concrete, like a fork or chair.

    Quote Originally Posted by Junior
    Wow...I didn't know that! That's useful advice. Is it true that smiling with teeth is considered agressive in Japan? I heard it somewhere but I'm not sure if it's true.
    I can't comment on the toothy smile thing, though it may have something to do with displaying the bad teeth a lot of Japanese seem to have.

    Here's a picture from the monkey park I visited:
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    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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