And for what it’s worth, there is no “standard English,” as there is no official centralized regulator of the language. So not sure what you meant by that remark. There are, however, a few recognized standards. One of these is, of course, the Oxford English Dictionary - the accepted standard for UK English - which just so happens to define the word “bangs” as it pertains to hair. How hard did you look?

Also, to make matters worse, the translation in the line by line is ‘bangs’? I’m guessing this is an Americanism, as it’s completely meaningless in standard English. I’m from the UK and I’ve never heard the word ‘bang’ used in the context of hair.

何て言ったんです is a grammatical structure that indicates what came before it was spoken. If you look it up in the grammar bank you won’t find it, it’s a corruption of 「何々」と言いました or in its plain form「何々」と言った。(The writer has changed the と to a て and put a 何て in front of it, which is kinda like the Japanese word for “kinda”].

But the sentence that comes after also looks like it’s been spoken because of the ［ ］around it.

I think ところ and こと are interchangeable. But こと is shorter (duh!) which means that it’s used in spoken language much more. Often when there are two words that mean the same thing, the shorter is used in spoken language, the longer in written.

なんて is the colloquial version of などと. などと can be broken down to など which means “things like” and と which is a particle to mark a quotation. So, “彼女は僕のことを軟弱だ” is marked as a quotation by と.

The original meaning of ところ is “place.” So, in this case, it would be natural to use ところ because 女々しいところ means a part(= place) of his personality which can be described as 女々しい.　I hope that would make sense.

In this sentence,

彼女は僕のことを軟弱だ、なんて言ったんです。「あなたの女々しいところがもう耐えられない」

when he says なんて言ったんで, which part is the direct object of 言う, is it the sentence that came before, or the sentence that comes after in quotes?

Also, is there some clear difference between ところ　and こと　when used to refer to ‘things of’ a person or a place? Could こと have been used here without a change in meaning?

Thanks in advance.

I find it distracting. Also, the explanations went all over the place. Which is a shame, because I thought the dialog was very useful. But then, suddenly, somehow, they were discussing carrots.

Those who know me know that I am not opposed to the hosts having a good time. Indeed, one of JP101’s strengths is that the podcast is entertaining as well as educational. But, when the explanations get self-indulgent and laughter follows nearly every sentence, it becomes nearly un-listenable.

Why use katakana for フラレル　instead of 振られる ? The kanji is one of the standard characters that all Japanese school students are taught. I thought maybe that the kana had become a fashionable way of writing this word, but when I googled it, it was quite rare.

Likewise, you used a kanji-kana combination for 捨て台詞. It took a fair amount of work to figure out what was going on with that term, especially because the ゼリフ　would normally be pronounced セリフ。　I was also surprised that you defined a simple term like 捨てる in the vocab section, but didn’t define the phrase 捨て台詞, which is quite a bit more difficult.

mine’s fairly normal. wash, cut, wash, massage, style and pay. one time i didn’t shave before i went and they shaved my beard… but def not my forehead.