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Daily Thread: for simple questions, minor posts & newcomers [contains useful links!] (August 13, 2025)

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  3. https://imgur.com/a/3hjNsay

    For context, they were complaining about the girl who rejected him.

    I don’t get 気持ちがあるのは認めるけどっていうんじゃ. Who is the subject for 認める? The girl who rejected him? What does っていうんじゃ mean?

  4. Is there a colloquial way in Japanese to refer to ‘cancelling’ someone (as in the English term, meaning online shunning)? I saw, in an anime, that a term was glossed as such, but I was then unable to work backward to find the term. I assume the translator was taking idiomatic liberties, which is fine, but it does seem like Japanese *would* have a similar term, given how important Twitter is in Japan.

    I found these, suggesting terms like those for ‘flame war’ or ‘to burn’ are similiar

    [https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/104271/is-%E7%87%83%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B-used-as-slang-for-being-cancelled-online](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/104271/is-%E7%87%83%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B-used-as-slang-for-being-cancelled-online)

    And this suggests the term for ‘village ostracism’ is a rough translation (which may be true, thematically, but doesn’t really answer my question)

    [https://rosellekingsbury.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/how-cancel-culture-is-a-little-like-%E6%9D%91%E5%85%AB%E5%88%86-and-apologies-will-take-you-where/](https://rosellekingsbury.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/how-cancel-culture-is-a-little-like-%E6%9D%91%E5%85%AB%E5%88%86-and-apologies-will-take-you-where/)

    So, aside from these, do those idioms of ‘cancel culture’, and ‘to cancel’ have a rough colloquial or slang equivalent in Japanese?

  6. What does it mean by ということで at the end of a sentence? Or how is it used?

    I found this tweet that said [その過程で狂っても自己責任ということで].

    It was the only thing it said without context, but I’m not sure what does it mean by that ということで specially because of that で at the end.

    I found this link

    https://ja.hinative.com/questions/24987781 But there is used at the beginning of a sentence.

    If you could give me some equivalents in English that would be cool too, thanks 😀

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