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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 07:45:47 UTC Bernie

   In yesterday's #RurouniKenshin episode, every time Kenshin encounters an adversary he offers to avoid "fuyō no tōsō", unnecessary fights.

   For the first word, I found two options in the dictionary:

   不要 (not + need): https://jisho.org/word/%E4%B8%8D%E8%A6%81

   不用 (not + use):
   https://jisho.org/word/%E4%B8%8D%E7%94%A8

   Both are pronounced ふよう (fu-yō), but #Japanese has several homophones which are considered distinct words. In writing, you should use the one with the desired meaning.

   So in this case, 不要... maybe?

   #anime #otaku

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 09:48:12 UTC Bernie

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     #ChatGPT enthusiastically confirms 不要.

     I don't know if that's actually true, but I'm impressed that GPT-4 correctly guessed why Kenshin would say something like this, and pointed it out without being asked 🤩

     #anime #japanese

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 14:17:54 UTC Bernie

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     • Benoit

     @benoit Very useful! Is it something aimed at students?

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 14:17:56 UTC Benoit

     in reply to

     @codewiz You can checkout the website https://tsukubawebcorpus.jp/search/

     to see actual real usage (frequency, sentences example, ...) of these words in Japanese corpus.