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This is from 松子さん.
松子さん?
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So, when it comes to slang, people have preferences.
I have a certain preference.
I use this word a lot.
I use this slang a lot.
But I don't use this or this.
I hardly ever use it.
Yeah.
And that really depends on that person's preference.
That's just me.
I just don't use oh my god so much.
But I think I use it sometimes.
I'm OK with using it.
You rather say, for example, oh shit.
Yeah.
That's more frequent.
Yeah.
Or like, my god.
I think I say that.
My god.
Yeah.
Right.
Not because of religious reasons or anything like that.
But you still hear it a lot in America, though.
Yes.
A lot.
A lot.
So, yeah.
Very common.
OK.
Right.
Even if you're not...
Religious.
Yeah.
Even if you're like, for example, you don't believe anything.
You can still say that.
Yeah.
You can still say it.
No matter what kind of god you believe in, you can use this.
Yeah.
It's kind of separated.
Right.
Yeah.
It's a different thing.
Detached from your religion, I guess.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, to me, it's just...
I don't know.
It's too...
I don't know.
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It's not in me.
Yeah.
I hardly ever hear you cuss.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is it cursing?
Oh my god?
Yeah.
Oh.
OK.
Using the lord's name vain.
Right?
That's cursing, right?
OK.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't...
It's not just in me.
Or like, fuck, or shit, or damn.
Yeah.
You don't do that, too.
Not in me.
Yeah.
I mean, sometimes.
But very...
Very few.
Yeah.
When I'm surprised, or...
You know.
It's not that natural to me.
It's not that in me, you know.
I think it's because I'm not surrounded by those words when I...
You grew up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wait, what about French?
Do you cuss in French?
Yeah.
Oh.
It's...
In French, I...
That's more in you.
I curse way more than when I speak in English.
For example, like what?
Can you teach me some cuss words in French?
Like what?
What does that mean?
That's like...
It's the closest to slang.
Bitch.
Bitch?
Yeah.
Putain?
Yeah.
Did I do it correctly?
Yeah.
Putain?
Putain.
Putain.
Yeah.
All right.
Merde.
Merde.
Merde.
Yeah.
Merde.
Yeah.
What does that mean?
That's like shit.
Oh.
Merde.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Oh, wow.
And you hear that often.
All the time?
All the time.
In many places.
Just as frequent as shit?
Shit, yeah.
Merde.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, that's good.
Or like...
Shut up.
That's like shut up.
Shut up?
Yeah.
What was that?
Shut up.
It was a pronounciation?
Shut up.
It's like...
Shut up.
Yeah.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, you say it all the time.
Okay.
Do you think the French people are...
Do they talk dirtier than the Americans, you think?
I don't think so.
You don't think so?
They're just the same amount, you know?
Oh, okay.
But as I was in, for example, playing football.
Yeah.
And with some kind of...
With friends, maybe.
Some dirty...
I was in high school, you know.
They talk dirty.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were high schoolers.
Yeah.
High schoolers.
They liked to cuss.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why I just, you know, faced those words in many times, in many situations.
So that's why I'm more like...
You know, when I speak French, it's easier for me to bring those things.
Yeah, yeah.
Whereas I was in the United States, I was 12, and I just did one month homestay.
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I was in a Salt Lake City, Mormon, strict family, you know?
Yeah.
So they speak really clean, you know.
So I, you know, I think I've never been, like, immersed in that, you know, environment,
that people casually, like, saying those things.
So that's why it's just not in me.
Did you go to church when you were in Salt Lake City?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Salt Lake City?
Yeah.
I did, I did.
Mormon church, right?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Yeah.
So every night, they read the Bible.
They make round...
Like, verses.
They would choose a verse, right?
Like, John 15, verse something, right?
Yeah.
So, tonight, this is your turn.
And we had four brothers, so one of them read.
As I was, I wanted to be a friend, a family member of them.
So I, of course, get inside the circle.
And then I was, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
One day, the house dad told me that you should, it's your turn.
To read the verse.
Yeah, I mean, and he said, like, I know you're not Christian or Mormon.
I know you have different, your own religion.
Yeah.
So you don't, it doesn't have to be, you know, reading the Bible or Christian one,
but maybe Buddha or whatever.
I don't know, but do your pray and we listen.
Oh.
This is your turn.
And I was like, I don't have one.
But my dad in Japan told me before the homestay, in America or in European countries,
having no religion is such a, like, it's not common.
You don't have any.
That means like, really?
Then how do you live?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So when you're somebody, when somebody asks to you like these questions,
you have to say yes and you have to say, maybe just say I'm Buddhist or something
to make it, to make everything smoother.
Ah, I see.
So I said, oh yeah, I'm a Buddhist.
Yeah.
Try that.
You're Buddhist.
Yeah.
And I was like, I don't know any.
And as, you know, I listened to the Hippo stories.
In Hippo stories, there's one scene that Japanese girl going to the homestay,
just like I did to the American family and did a little,
they did a little Christian praying things.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I knew it.
I knew that scene.
Ah, okay.
And I repeatedly listened to that scene.
So you remember it.
Yeah, I remember that.
And I thought like, if I say in Japanese, they won't understand it,
even if it's like Christian ones.
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Yeah.
No problem.
And I, the Buddhist one.
And I went like,
天に増します我らが父よ。
今日も日々の食事を。
You know that.
Yeah.
And try that.
感謝いたします。
アーメン。
That's the whole package.
I said Amen.
And everyone was like, what?
Amen?
What?
Did you say Amen?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
I was like, oh, you know, that's, that's.
Yeah.
Wow.
They were strict.
They were strict.
Uh-huh.
Wow.
I remember that.
But it was all in Japanese, right?
Yeah.
So they didn't really, they wouldn't really go into like the questioning.
No, no.
What was that about?
You know it's Japanese, so you know.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah.
Nice.
Remember that.
Yeah.
All right.
There we go.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
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Bye-bye.
