掲示板 Forums - Relatable scenarios

If it's for Shiritori, loanwords are nice. Here's a few I like to use: ルーマニア　ルーツ　ルワンダ　ルコラ　ルミネセンス　ルールブック　ルートビア　ルーク　ルービックキューブ　ループ

Here's a few native words too: 類似　縲絏　類語　類推　類推的　類義

Go on Takoboto to and search る?? and search through the list of words. After a while you have a bank of words big enough you never don't have a shiritori word.

ロウ (Row) は 09月13日, 4:31に

Wisconsin. I asked someone and they said it was uncommon... maybe I'm just crazy or something but I feel like it isn't? :( I just never have thought of it like that

と言いました。

hey, we use 'surely' quite a lot in GB, so maybe it's a US thing where everyone disagrees

As a non-native speaker, this is quite interesting. So, if someone asked "Can you give me a hand?", would "Surely!" in place of "Absolutely!" / "Sure!" / "Of course!" feel like a natural response to you?

The point being made wasn't that "surely" isn't used, but that it used to carry a much higher degree of certainty or assurance than it does now. As far as I know, that's a mid 20th-century shift in meaning (used to be basically the same as "definitely").

"Surely it's gonna rain tomorrow" - more like "probably".

"It will definitely rain tomorrow" - expressing certainty.

Anyway, my English is a weird amalgamation, so my perception might be unreliable.

PS: I'm assuming that's what @りんぱい meant. If they were saying it's not used at all, then I also disagree.

Got it. Those examples make perfect sense to me. It's definitely the more "modern" use of the word. The reason I asked the first question was because I found it on a pretty old (archived) BBC language Q&A post: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldser...

This bit here:

• Can you give me a hand washing up?
  Surely! / Certainly! / No problem!
• Would you join us for supper tonight?
  Surely! Where are you eating?

No idea how old that thing is (early 2000s?), but to me "Surely!" feels very old-fashioned. I can't tell if it's old or just a "textbook" answer. Maybe both?

I'd love to hear the American perspective on this. I assume it would sound very weird to them.

I should probably stop nerding out about languages, this thread isn't really about that.

It's just a very interesting topic to me :)