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Today’s Word: rude

Today’s Word: rude

August 21, 2018 =========

☆  rude   失礼な

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Someone who is rude acts in an impolite way towards others, or says impolite things to or about them. Today’s word is the opposite of yesterday’s word. Hopefully you don’t ever meet rude people, but if you did, you could say something like this to them:

“Please don’t be so rude.”
“Stop being so rude!”
“I don’t know why you have to be rude.”

In Japan, you probably don’t meet that many rude people, right? People are generally polite and courteous to each other. In Australia, that’s also true, but sometimes you will come across rude people. If I do, I usually just say, “That was a bit rude!” andRead more about Today’s Word: rude[…]