shrine to the prophet of americana

i will never get over how the word “let’s” is used in japan

milknjuice:

milknjuice:

i will never get over how the word “let’s” is used in japan

this is the best to me

it’s based off a close parallel between “let’s” and the “-masyoo” ending as a way to give a friendly command, like “ike”/“Go!” matches to “ikimasyoo”/“let’s go!” pretty cleanly

The problem is helping verbs, “let’s go bowling!” would work, and “let’s do brunch!”’would work but it’s not at all obvious to foreigners that “go” matches “bowling” and “do” matches “brunch”

(or that “do” matches “dinner” but “go” matches “dinner hopping”)