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Read them out loud! Yes we'd be able to tell what you mean from the context anyway but still, it's amazing that native speakers acquire this without thinking about it.
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The most visually irritating four-kanji idiom: 已己巳己 [ikomiki] ‘things that are similar and hard to distinguish”
已 (い) ‘already’
己 (こ/き) ‘self’
巳 (み) ‘snake zodiac’
yoji.jitenon.jp/yojib/635.html
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If you pursue pure, faithful translation with zero "localization," your anime subtitles will look like a linguistics paper - vol. 3
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OK let's put an end to the anime translation/localization debate by adding Normal Mode, Advanced Mode and Linguist Mode subtitles like these. (Don't mention economic rationality!)
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