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White-Wolf
22 January

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How do you say this in English (US)? お金の話とかいやらしい

This いやらしい does not mean sexual thing, so would like to to know how to express in English🧐
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Bonsaijoonie
22 January

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It's obscene to talk about money.

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Kassandra_Kaplan
22 January

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You can take this a lot of ways. Since emotional words rarely work one-to-one I think it’s best to break up the important elements. So it depends on how strong you feel the いやらしい is in this case and in what was is it meant. Here are some examples and how we might interpret them. Talking about money is taboo. -very strong, prohibited but without written out rules. Should not ever do. Talking about money is unpleasant. -talking only about how it feels, this feels a bit awkward and somewhat literal to the elements of the word. This is a moderately strong statement. Talking about money is obscene - it feels on the same level of talking about sex, but there is nothing sexual about it. A much strong way of saying unpleasant. Talking about money is improper - it’s not about how we feel, but about the social pressure. Similar to taboo but not as strong. There might be reasons to but you should proceed carefully. We don’t like talking about money, it feels wrong. - expresses a preference, with a prohibition at the core. We hate talking about money, it’s a taboo subject. - very strong way of wording it. You shouldn’t talk about money -this is pretty far from the Japanese sentence but if you want to be clear about what you intend this might be a good choice. You shouldn’t talk about money, it feels... - obscene or unpleasant this give more clarity to why you shouldn’t. We don’t like talking about money, so you shouldn’t do it. Since we find talking about money distasteful, it’s taboo.

You can take this a lot of ways. Since emotional words rarely work one-to-one I think it’s best to break up the important elements. So it depends on how strong you feel the いやらしい is in this case and in what was is it meant.
Here are some examples and how we might interpret them.
Talking about money is taboo. -very strong, prohibited but without written out rules. Should not ever do.
Talking about money is unpleasant. -talking only about how it feels, this feels a bit awkward and somewhat literal to the elements of the word. This is a moderately strong statement.
Talking about money is obscene - it feels on the same level of talking about sex, but there is nothing sexual about it. A much strong way of saying unpleasant.
Talking about money is improper - it’s not about how we feel, but about the social pressure. Similar to taboo but not as strong. There might be reasons to but you should proceed carefully.
We don’t like talking about money, it feels wrong. - expresses a preference, with a prohibition at the core.
We hate talking about money, it’s a taboo subject. - very strong way of wording it.
You shouldn’t talk about money -this is pretty far from the Japanese sentence but if you want to be clear about what you intend this might be a good choice.
You shouldn’t talk about money, it feels... - obscene or unpleasant this give more clarity to why you shouldn’t.
We don’t like talking about money, so you shouldn’t do it.
Since we find talking about money distasteful, it’s taboo.

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White-Wolf
22 January

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@Kassandra_Kaplan Thank you! It really helpful and I got what you mean! thank you for detailed explanations! 😉
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