QotD:
(Japanese class. Task: Use the causative-passive form to express something you had to do.)
Axel: Kodomo no toki, mainichi toko o toraseraremashita.
What he meant: Kodomo no toki, mainichi toko o nobesaseraremashita.
What that means: When I was a child, I had to make my bed every day.
What he said: When I was a child, I had to prostitute myself every day.
And what we learn from that: Dictionaries really, really need to list connotations.
In other news, HOLIDAYS!
(Japanese class. Task: Use the causative-passive form to express something you had to do.)
Axel: Kodomo no toki, mainichi toko o toraseraremashita.
What he meant: Kodomo no toki, mainichi toko o nobesaseraremashita.
What that means: When I was a child, I had to make my bed every day.
What he said: When I was a child, I had to prostitute myself every day.
And what we learn from that: Dictionaries really, really need to list connotations.
In other news, HOLIDAYS!