New answers tagged particle-と
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When it comes to particles, and I am speaking in general terms here, you shouldn't try to understand or memorize them by pairing them up or finding supposed equivalents, because that never works. Cross-linguistically, there is no equivalence in particles, prepositions, adverbs. Even those grammar terms vary cross-linguistically. In case you haven't noticed, ...
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All actions in the sentence are done by the samurai. The following is unnaturally verbose and possibly not grammatical but if we try to imagine it like this:
侍は一旦(侍が)護ると(侍が)決めたものは(侍が)死んでも(侍が)護る
very literally:
Samurai, once {(samurai will protect...)<-[if samurai decided]} something, even if (samurai) dies, (samurai) will protect.
Or, more naturally:
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Probably, this person made a typo while trying to write 呼びタメという言葉を使っている or 呼びタメと言っている.
呼びタメを使っている makes little sense in that context (she's gotten keigo replies).
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It's also the listing-と. Originally, the standard way to say "A and B" was AとBと, using と twice. In modern Japanese, the second と is usually dropped, but it's still sometimes inserted for several reasons:
To emphasize a comparison
To make a sentence/title sound literary and sonorous (see the first link below for examples)
To increase the ...
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