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| location | Seoul, South Korea | |
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I'm hitchhiking around the world, learning bits of the languages on the road as needed. At the start I had a trip in Japan from Shimonoseki -> Osaka -> Kyoto -> Yamagata up the west coast -> Tokyo down the east coast -> Shimonoseki.
I'm now in Korea where I come across a bit of Japanese language and often compare it to Korean.
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Jan 9 |
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Is “豪斯多拉利” an ateji way to write “Australia”? Yes I tried to mention that 豪 is the current (post spelling reform) character used in compounds like "Japan-Australia relations". Thanks for the new link. I wonder if all the variants also occurred in Chinese. In fact usually only 澳大利亞/澳大利亚 is seen (and 澳洲). |
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Aug 30 |
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Onigiri and nigiri Also "ball" is kinda historic. Traditionally onigri were hand made and spherical. These days many are factory made and one very common kind is triangular. There can be many fillings other than meat or fish and they are not always wrapped in seaweed. Oh and I ❤ them. |
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Jul 30 |
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How many forms can a Japanese verb take? This seems to apply that in Japanese there are no restrictions on which auxiliaries or affixes can be used together, which would be surprising when compared to other languages with agglutinative verb morphology such as Georgian. |
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Jul 29 |
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How many forms can a Japanese verb take? @sawa: Hmm if you wouldn't use the term "verb form" to describe the result of adding a grammatical combination of such affixes to such an invariant verb root, which term would you suggest? |
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Jul 29 |
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How many forms can a Japanese verb take? @sawa: Can you please explain? Are you saying that Japanese verbs don't inflect to make different forms but instead only come in one root form and are followed by other small words to create past, negative, differing politeness, etc?? |
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Jul 29 |
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How many forms can a Japanese verb take? @ZhenLin: For you it might not matter. For somebody writing software for a morphological analyser, a conjugator, or writing a book such as "501 Japanese verbs in every conjugation" it can matter a lot. In my case it's just an interesting factoid since I have seen people work out how many forms a verb can take in other morphologically complex languages such as Georgian and Arabic. |
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May 29 |
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What are other language equivalents to Japanese particles? Actually で maps better to the instrumental case in languages which have one than it does to English. Languages which rely only on adpositions generally have greater variety in usage as compared to languages with case systems. For instance in the language I'm currently studying, Georgian, で does map to the instrumental case ending -ით for both examples you give. |
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Apr 12 |
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Are there any old loanwords from Korean, especially any not written in katakana? Is this the word written as kanji 塚, kana つか? In modern Korean 총? Can you provide a reference as to its Korean origin? I couldn't find one so far by googling... |
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Dec 20 |
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Can a Japanese person understand something written in traditional Chinese The answer will certainly be "it depends" (-: |
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Dec 12 |
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Are kanji characters made up of radicals only or could they contain strokes that are not radicals? You do clear it up afterwards but for the TL;DR people since you do provide a summary answer it would be better if it wasn't ambiguous. It will just make it a better answer for the future (I already voted you up!) |
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Dec 12 |
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Are kanji characters made up of radicals only or could they contain strokes that are not radicals? Sorry @heefske: I was just repeating the exact text of the OP's question which doesn't include this "all" but which does offer two options which it's difficult to assign your single "no" to. |
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Dec 9 |
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Are kanji characters made up of radicals only or could they contain strokes that are not radicals? Does your "short answer no" mean 1. "No - kanji characters are not made up of radicals only" or 2. "No - they could not contain strokes that are not radicals"? |
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Nov 21 |
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Are kanji characters made up of radicals only or could they contain strokes that are not radicals? I think the answer would be that "radical" has a correct technical meaning as the KangXi radicals used for sorting characters, and some other meanings which are common at least in English but which others won't consider correct. For instance the other common components of characters which are greater than a single stroke which are not among the KangXi radicals. But I'd love to hear from our experts and if/how these senses are distinguished in Japanese. (Or even Chinese for that matter.) |
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Nov 20 |
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Are there no rounded or circular strokes in any 漢字？ To amaze your friends at spotting the difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean: If it has any circles as part of characters it's Korean. If it has any katakana or hiragana it's Japanese. Otherwise it's Chinese. (yeah yeah oversimplified) |
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Nov 20 |
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Are kanji characters made up of radicals only or could they contain strokes that are not radicals? Time for the discussion of what radical really means? It's been a long time coming (-: |
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Nov 18 |
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Is the 強い with a ロ instead of ム on top a valid kanji in Japanese? There's also 彊. From Wiktionary: 強 强 彊 |
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Oct 31 |
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Article versus postposition Ah yes overriding has its own meaning again in OO. I won't edit it yet because I have a feeling there's a better word used for just this, also better than "replace" and "cancel out"... |
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Oct 31 |
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Article versus postposition To me, "overwrite" only means physically writing something over something else, like with a pen or typewriter. |
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Oct 29 |
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Article versus postposition Japanese particles are a mixed bag which for some reason are lumped together under a single name. They're not all postpositions. But those which are are very similar to both the prepositions and case marking in other languages. |
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Oct 29 |
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Article versus postposition Do you mean "overwrite" or "override"? |
