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[–] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

That last part is really funny for me currently learning Japanese. The differnece between desu and janaidesu is always at the end, but makes (in my head) a "it's like that" into a "it's not like that" thus negating the whole sentence. A constant lookout for a "NOT" at the end of each sentence.