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> Total tangent there's this thing in Japanese where a word ends up meaning one thing and also its opposite, due to being used ironically This is quite common
by bradrn 2y ago
> Total tangent there's this thing in Japanese where a word ends up meaning one thing and also its opposite, due to being used ironically
This is quite common outside Japanese: e.g. in English, ‘wicked’ can be positive or negative.