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I can't find this particular quote, but if you can read Japanese there's an interview with this guy here [1]. For this example in particular, the grammar for r
by getoj 7y ago
I can't find this particular quote, but if you can read Japanese there's an interview with this guy here [1].
For this example in particular, the grammar for reported speech in Japanese is pretty much the same for a 70 year old and a 25 year old, so I agree that "I was like" is a weird choice for what was probably って言った. In [1] the guy has some pretty old-person vocabulary like "どうや", but basically talks like a normal person (of any age).
[1] https://plus-handicap.com/2016/03/7306/ https://plus-handicap.com/2016/03/7306/
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- whym 7y agoThe Japanese transcription in that link can be misleading because it seems to redact the manner he speaks. (They do this kind of editing a lot when they transcribe dialects.) Here is a recording of how he speaks: https://youtu.be/zz3tuIbYvmY?t=60 https://youtu.be/zz3tuIbYvmY?t=60 - he has a grandpa-like way of speaking to some extent, but I don't think it's age as much as it's dialect. Many younger people with his dialect speak similarly. For example, どうや and 何や are perfectly normal for a 20 year old from the region to say.