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My Japanese is really, really rusty, but isn't "anata" considered disrespectful?

Also, I thought the accepted transliteration was "wa", not "ha", but don't quote me on that.



Yes, it's best to avoid the use of "anata", which is why I removed it. Also, it's just phrased really poorly in general - it feels like a literal translation from English, which rarely works with Japanese. And it is indeed "wa", not "ha". It's often mistakenly written as "ha" because the hiragana used for the particle "wa" (は) is read as "ha" in other contexts. I would also say that it should be "o", not "wo", since it's pronounced "o".




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