Timeline for What does 'just like that' mean?
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| Apr 28, 2013 at 5:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/328373676401643520 | ||
| Apr 25, 2013 at 21:44 | vote | accept | Sahil | ||
| Apr 25, 2013 at 20:44 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @ Thor: If you can remember the actual movie title, it would probably help. But I should tell you that in my experience, there are an awful lot of really bad English subtitles out there. I wouldn't take too much notice of anything you see in a subtitle that doesn't accord with your own understanding of "valid/expected" forms. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 20:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Bill: It doesn't have to be a "bad translation". OP hasn't given us the movie, so we can't easily check, but it's at least possible Guy1 is a fluent native speaker. For example, it could reasonably be a "cut-down" version of "I'm just like that" (i.e. - I just make spur-of-the-moment decisions like that). Without the exact context, we're pretty much in the dark. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 15:49 | comment | added | user264 | I'd say it was a bad translation & that your understanding of 'for no particular reason' is a much better translation, as are "Just to go there" or "Just because" or "Because I want to". | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 15:48 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 15:28 | history | asked | Sahil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |