Sometimes students will ask me, "What's your favorite Japanese word?"
And thus you, in turn, might ask, "Favorite Japanese word? Geesh. Why would they ever ask that?"
And so now I must ask you back, "Why would you ever ask what they ask? Geesh. This is Japan."
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