我爸去兴师问罪是他不对
“It was wrong of my dad to go confront him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是
“Yes.”
我爸 去 兴师问罪 是 他 不对
“It was wrong of my dad to go confront him.”
但他不能就这样认可啊
“But he shouldn't have just accepted it.”
“Sure, my dad handled it badly, but he still had a valid point.”
In Chinese argumentation, explicitly conceding a family member's improper etiquette demonstrates fairness, making the subsequent defense of their underlying motive more persuasive.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to send an expedition to punish; aggressively confront someone over a wrongdoing
A common four-character idiom (chengyu) used when someone angrily storms in to demand accountability.
he is in the wrong; it was his fault
A standard spoken pattern used to acknowledge fault or concede an error.