> My Japanese is poor yet but the more i'm understanding about it, the more i get why
> sometimes they talk funny. If anyone visits places like danbooru or gets to watch
> subbed and translated songs on YouTube, you may notice sometimes interpretations look
> nonsensical or incoherent. As my slow progress in Japanese advance (learning new
> verbs, understanding in practice how particles work depending on its position in a
> sentence and overall how to read kanji), i notice many interpreters skip the topic of
> the sentence because in japanese it uses to be more than obvious.
>
> Something as simple as a full sentence like
> 私は猫が好きです (watashi wa neko ga
> suki desu - i like cats) gets shortened as
> 猫が好きです (neko ga suki desu - like cats) and
> you end up wondering what or who is the speaker talking about. All because everything
> before the topic maker particle は gets missing.
>
> It's just like english speakers trying to talk spanish. Most talk funny because
> they're not used to conjugate a verb depending on the pronoun, yet we use to omit
> pronouns because it gets obvious with the correct conjugation of a verb.
>
> The more you know, the more you understand.
The TL;DR version:
Japanese are lazy. 
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