In other news, people often make mistakes in how they write Japanese. This is something that I regularly run into when being conversational in Japanese, either written or oral form. For example, 「君」(Kuni) is a pronoun that can refer to either males or females. When I was little and learning Basic Hiragana and Katakana, it was always taught as 「あなた」(anata), which refers explicitly to males. The word for “you” (Hitori) would then be used for the female version of this word. However, later on, I learned the proper way to use 「君」(Kuni). Is it 「お前だろ？」(made kore), which sounds like an old-fashioned way of saying “you?”
It makes sense because you’re referring to someone who’s nearby you (past tense), so it makes sense that it would be more respectful than simply calling them by name. So while you could technically call them by name when speaking casually, there’s a certain distance between speakers where such a thing wouldn’t fit right. It’s common among many dialects of Japanese to distinguish between formal speech and casual speech/endearment by adding おこです (okodesu) at the end of almost any sentence in everyday address/endearment, so if you want to say something like “I’m hungry” but don’t want to sound like an old man trying too hard to sound like he has some emotional connection with his food, add おこです at the end:
Sarcastic self-deprecation is also another thing that can help show your age better in Japan; so again, we have おこです. If you’re
Wagyu is a cattle breed with a high amount of marbling in its meat.
Wagyu is a cattle breed with a high amount of marbling in its meat. Marbling is caused by fat deposits within the muscle fibers, which gives it an iridescent appearance. Wagyu is a type of beef popular in Japan, but it’s also available to the rest of us through imports and domestic production.
Note: I can’t guarantee that the information in this post is 100% accurate, but it was taken from a Reddit post from user /u/J_sir_knee.
