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Colloquial use of「〜て〔い〕ない」, maybe instead of 「〜なかった」
It's not the first time I hear it, but I've found it in this scene. I understand that, as in 知る or 始まる, a started action whose consequence remains is expressed in continuous form. However, I thought ...
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Colloquial Contraction Confusion
This is taken from one of the mindless pop songs I shouldn't even be listening to:
なんてったって ラッキー！
I know what なんて and ラッキー mean, of course, but I can't figure out in a way that makes sense to me ...
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What does っつの mean?
I recently saw 冗談だっつの. What does it っつの mean, or how does it modify the meaning of a sentence?
