= You told me I got fat, the other day didn’t you?

= Kono aida, watshi no koto futottatte itta desho. = Why don’t we get together at 10:00 pm tomorrow? = I heard he likes a tall girl in the next class who looks like a model. = Kare, tonari no kurasu no se no takai moderu mitai na ko ga sukinandatte. ＊Referring to something/someone which someone has just mentioned. = Are you going to wear shoes like those? ＊Referring to something a little far from you: = I can’t believe this kind of thing happened. = Konna koto ga okiru nante shinjirarenai. (It could be some news that you are watching right now.) ＊Referring to something that happened recently. = I’ve always wanted to have a car like this. * あんな ( = anna) such(a), that kind, something like that * そんな ( = sonna) such(a), that kind, something like that * こんな ( = konna) such (a), this kind, something like this こんな ( = konna)、そんな ( = sonna)、あんな ( = anna) are much stronger in many ways and they involves certain emotions. Maggie Sensei taught you この ( = kono) this 、その ( = sono) that, the 、あの ( = ano) that in her こそあど言葉( = kosoado kotoba) lesson before. Today, we will study when to use こんな ( = konna)、そんな ( = sonna)、あんな ( = anna) Hello I am Levo, and I will be your teacher today! Do I know I have beautiful eyes? Of course I do. I think he KNOWS he can get anything with those eyes! His sister told me he is a very calm kitten. I am mesmerized by his beautiful eyes. He is only 7 months old but he asked if he could be our guest teacher today. Read more opinions here, and see our submission guidelines here.Today’s guest teacher is Levo Sensei. WIRED Opinion publishes articles by outside contributors representing a wide range of viewpoints. This article has been updated to include comments from the originator of the Surprised Pikachu meme. However, I will say that I am 95 percent confident that this meme was the most successful stealth marketing campaign of 2018. I am a mere data detective-I live by the statistician’s code, and will never claim anything with 100 percent certainty. I’m afraid I can offer no final verdict on that question. 'That seems like a fun job.' Maybe, though, her good idea was borrowed by others, who boosted it for profit. 'I WISH Pokemon hired me as a sleuth marketing coordinator,' she told me via email. So, was Surprised Pikachu an ad campaign? Angela-the original poster-says that if this was a corporate scheme, she was not involved. If the Surprised Pikachu meme ended up getting 90 million views (which is probably a vast underestimate), that equates to $900,000 worth of publicity. Facebook advertising can cost $10 per 1,000 views. Let’s talk hypotheticals: $100,000-probably just a tiny fraction of Detective Pikachu’s marketing budget-would be enough to fund a small team to work on such a campaign for two months. Meme-based marketing campaigns might be a gamble, but with high risk comes high reward.

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