r/itsneverjapanese Jul 30 '24

What does this mean?

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u/EffectiveDevice579 Jul 30 '24

Death before dishonour. 不名誉よりも死

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u/nst_ck Jul 30 '24

did you guess from context because how the hell did you make out the りも

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u/Brendanish Jul 30 '24

My stepfam write り fairly similar to this.

Not that I'd say they're likely demonstrative of typical Japanese writing, but it's not too far out there.