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電車 always trips me up when talking about trains in Japanese. It appears to me that for some Japanese every train (including Diesel powered ones) is 電車 at this point, while others do make the distinction. The Japanese Wikipedia page mentions this shift as well.

The cultural gap is annoying with captcha's, even if you keep your preferred browser language set to English.




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