Timeline for Is タオル used for the towels used at onsen?
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| May 11, 2012 at 1:00 | answer | added | dainichi | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 11, 2012 at 0:11 | vote | accept | Golden Cuy | ||
| May 10, 2012 at 21:59 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @Kaz +1 informative and funny, to quote slashdot. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 21:09 | comment | added | Jesse Good |
I agree with Kaz, if you say これ は 何 ですか it sounds like you don't know what a towel is.
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| May 10, 2012 at 21:05 | answer | added | Jesse Good | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 10, 2012 at 18:37 | history | edited | Pacerier | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 10, 2012 at 16:12 | comment | added | Kaz | A better way to ask might be これは 日本語で 何と 言うのですか？ "kore wa, nihongo de, nan to iu n desu ka?" ("... nan te iu no?" with friends). Asking what do you call this in Japanese is a little better than asking what it is. Though they understand, since you're a foreigner from a land where they have towels; but if you were Japanese, that question would look like you've never seen a towel before! | |
| May 10, 2012 at 14:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJapanese/status/200589956576579584 | ||
| May 10, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | user1016 | Hmm I think we normally call the large towel 'バスタオル.' (But I also remember hearing a staff member at an 温泉旅館 call it '大きいタオル'/'大きいほうのタオル'.) We have a word 手ぬぐい but I think this refers to something different today. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 12:44 | answer | added | fefe | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 10, 2012 at 12:16 | history | asked | Golden Cuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |