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Old 12-08-2007, 02:44 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Um... The OP is all about communicating better. Take care. (気を付けてください) is just inappropriate as a good-bye in Japanese, unless it's to people traveling in a dangerous zone. Even then, it still doesn't mean good bye--you can use it on the way to a camp surrounded by mean monsters.

Detect by soundTake care.

You can't demand a Japanese phrase mean what it does not because the phrase chosen for English can be used in other ways. In any case, just use Good bye. and See you again!; the first should work for all languages, and the second definitely works for Japanese.



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