遅刻するなよ / 遅刻しないでください

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Chansu

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• 17 Jan 2012

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Hi, if I were to ask someone not to be late (stern warning), should I say 遅刻するなよ, or, 遅刻しないでください?

 

FrustratedDave

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• 17 Jan 2012

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It would depend on your relationship with them. But I am guessing if you have to ask you should not be using,
遅刻するなよ

 

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Chansu

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• 18 Jan 2012

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Thanks, Frustrated Dave. I assume that if I am really angry with someone and ask him not to be late, I say "遅刻するな!". And if I am asking someone nicely not to be late, then I would say "遅刻しないでください.". Am I right?

 

Mike Cash

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• 18 Jan 2012

• #4

They're not both "asking" phrases. One is a blunt command and the other is a polite request.

 

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staren

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• 18 Jan 2012

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Oh. I had no idea that 窶堙 could be used for command. Good to know
Makes sense since I've heard it in those kinds of situations in animes.

 

Mike Cash

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• 19 Jan 2012

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Why anime should be supplemental learning material, if used at all.

Mimicking what you hear in anime is a good way to sound rude, immature, effeminate, vulgar, archaic, or some combination thereof.

Going around thinking the impolite command form is just a miffed way of making a request is, as they say back home, "a good way to get your a$$ kicked".

 

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staren

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• 19 Jan 2012

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Mike Cash said:

Why anime should be supplemental learning material, if used at all.

Mimicking what you hear in anime is a good way to sound rude, immature, effeminate, vulgar, archaic, or some combination thereof.

Going around thinking the impolite command form is just a miffed way of making a request is, as they say back home, "a good way to get your a$$ kicked".

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Yea, I'm well aware about that. But I don't watch anime to learn, I just watch because I enjoy it. But since I started learning japanese it sort of works like some sort of repetition. When I hear something I know, I think about it and it gets repeated That sounded a bit weird but I think you get what I mean.

 

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Chansu

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• 19 Jan 2012

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Mike Cash said:

They're not both "asking" phrases. One is a blunt command and the other is a polite request.

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Thanks, Mike Cash.