日本人の知らない日本語

[desdemona03]

私の前のポーストは知らん顔をしてください。｢日本人の知らない日本語」という本を笑わせたから、大丈夫ですよ

Comments

[thehamoftruth]

Counters? Like, collective nouns?

[desdemona03]

Basically counters go on the end of numbers to indicate what kind of object it is you're counting. So if you were counting sheets of paper " 1mai, 2mai, 3mai" with "mai" being the generic counter for thin flat things, you could be just as easily counting t-shirts. Every size category or group of related objects have a counter... its just a pain to remember which goes with which.

[thehamoftruth]

That is extremely shocking to my Western sensibilities.

[misogenetic]

Oh yeaaahh, I remember counters. That stuff is just plain terrible.

Good luck on your test!