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dteoh on April 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)

I think the more grammatically correct question sentences would be "kami wa doko desu ka" (as for kami, where is it?) or "doko ga kami ga (ar)imasu ka" (where does kami exist?).

> Which kami I was thinking about is for me to know and you to guess incorrectly.

Well, if you used the kanji then we wouldn't have to guess ;)

near on April 22, 2014 [–]

> Well, if you used the kanji then we wouldn't have to guess ;)

It was a trick: kami was used as a portmanteau of KAeru (frog) and MIso, so in this case, kami = frog-flavored miso soup :P

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