So Minato declares that calling his lack of prowess is even an understatement. It's that bad. Add Understatement to the factor 'not his forte', then even an imbecile can see how horrendous his SM is. So much so, that he doesn't even bother using it for Combat. But I see Minato fans pulls nonsense as usual.
"Your sennin mode isn't your forte eh sensei?"
for·te1
ˈfôrˌtā,fôrt/
noun
1.
a thing at which someone excels.
"small talk was not his forte"
synonyms: strength, strong point, specialty, strong suit, talent, special ability, skill, bent, gift, métier;
"That is putting it at an understatement"
un·der·state·ment
ˈəndərˌstātmənt/Submit
noun
1.
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
"a master of English understatement"
synonyms: minimization, trivialization, euphemism;
I read it perfectly.
^ This ends the thread. Honestly, never have I seen so many blatant and borderline asinine denials that are so desperate that it ingrates. Minato himself declared that even calling SM 'not his Forte is an understatement'; meaning, he's just that 'Bad' at it. This is as accurate as the translation can get. God, the amount of nonsensical denials in this thread are out of this world.
Just like Sasuke sucks with genjutsu right? I guess selective reading is strong in this one
Never said you didn't anyway. All i'm saying is everyone can remove part of statement and find his own resoning around it completely different than the one you could notice with the complete one
"I don't like you. I love you" Remove the second part and you have someone hating another
"I don't think i could reach Boston in less than an hour. Not with a bicycle, but a car would do it" Remove the second part and you have a complete impossibility
"I don't think i could eat rice. I don't like it and don't digest normally" Remove the second part and one could think the individual can't eat it
"I'm not good at math. I can only have 3/5 instead of 5/5 like in english" Remove the second part and you get something totally different
May i go on?
No, they cannot. All I see is back-paddling and a poor one at that. For Sasuke, a juxtaposition was created, a comparison, a dichotomous representation, and it was made specifically on grounds of MS, with another individual, who would be Itachi. Do you see any comparisons, parallels, contrasts here? Then all your statements are left null and void as Minato has added no one into his statement. His explanation is centered on a singular entity, meaning himself.
Your explanations do not even make sense. When one states he isn't good at Maths, without declaring the grounds for a comparison or what he factors as good or bad, then how are you adding factors without any aforementioned factors? All of your explanations are a part of elaborate reasoning, which Minato has already forwarded that you are repeatedly ignoring - let me put it in very simple terms:
K - "You are not god at SM, Minato / SM is not your forte?"
M - "That is an understatement / that is putting it lightly" - Backed by these lines:
M - "Well, it takes too long to knead Chakra, I cannot maintain it for long, and I haven't used it much in combat."
These are reasonings, solid and clear cut ones as to why he's absolutely horrendous at using SM.
Let's use your own Example:
Teacher: "Bogard, why don't you understand simple English? / Is English not your forte?"
Bogard: "That would be an understatement. I don't understand basic sentence structure, clear cut declarative sentences, and I don't even use it much in real life."
