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(You'd think that Japanese would be hard, but speaking and listening
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(You'd think that my life without a car in Boston must have been
inconvenient, but it wasn't at all.)

The conjunction can be used when one makes an assertion that a popular
belief or what the listener I reader may believe is not always true. In SI ka to
iu to S2, what the listener / reader is expected to believe is expressed in SI. SZ
is often sd de wa nai or its variations as shown in KS and Exs. However, the
S2 part is sometimes omitted as in the following examples.
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(You would think that all Japanese liked sushi, but you sometimes
encounter Japanese who don't like sushi.)