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Re:Some Techies Are Shunning Silicon Valley for the Japanese... by throwaway936396 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:37PM (#17832104)
Pitch accent + clarification when needed. Subtitles are extremely common here. See my response to a response of this comment for more details.

The tl;dr is that the language is harder in speech than in writing. If you stick to well-worn paths people will know what you're saying, but I often have to discuss the written form of the more obscure words I say or just write it down and show it to my conversational partner.

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