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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (February 20, 2026)

  • February 20, 2026

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2 comments

  1. While watching a video, I recently encountered a sign that read “かけこみ乗車はおやめください”.

    Can someone explain what’s going on conjugation wise with the “おやめください” part? Is this just a more polite variation of the て-form + ください structure? If so, can all verbs be conjugated in the same manner (i.e. add お, drop the て)?

  2. In Final Fantasy IX there’s this plot item called 白金の針. I thought it would be read はっきんのはり because that’s how that first jukugo is read standalone to mean “Platinum”, but a LPer I’m watching always reads it as しろがねのはり. Which is it? Is she just wrong and it’s another case of kanji messing even with native speakers or is it meant to be read しろがね here?

    (The item is meant to be Platinum Needle, it’s a stronger version of the common item Golden Needle so I feel like しろがね wouldn’t make much sense since it would be Silver Needle, right?)

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