| Re: Looking for members. (A cookbook for /search and Auto-Translator invites) 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 sound▶◀Take 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.  “ I’m in pain, but I’m happy.”
“ It hurts, but I can smile.”
“ That’s why I can tell you from the depths of my being…” |