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Jan 31	answered	What is this 〜な〜な pattern?
Jan 30	comment	What are common mistakes made by Japanese kombini employees speaking “manual keigo” (バイト敬語) @StuartWoodward Rather than coining it, I may have heard it somewhere and mistook it as a popular grammatical error. I still am trying to recall the other incorrect 敬語 usage.
Jan 28	comment	Logic behind “が” preferrence when using a “-たい” form @Chocolate 文法的でも意味不明なものやはり意味不明です。
Jan 23	comment	Logic behind “が” preferrence when using a “-たい” form @Chocolate maybe something like "It's Yoko that has the long hair (and not Taeko, not Yuriko)".
Jan 15	comment	When to use 種別 and when to use 区分 when programming Look up the meaning of 得意. We sometimes call regulars as お得意さん among others (like 常連さん etc)
Jan 15	comment	Logic behind “が” preferrence when using a “-たい” form That sentence itself is not unnatural, but the translation is.
Dec 31	comment	Making sense out of Japanese proverbs The first one is from rakugo, which sometimes spout out nonsense.
Dec 31	comment	Politeness in examination questions I've never been to a Japanese middle school, so I can't comment on that, but are you sure なさい form was used in high school questions? The textbooks I used were all also せよ forms.
Dec 31	comment	What are the rules for reading numbers before a foreign counter-word? @NicolasRaoul In my experience, 1パック is いっぱっく, while 1泊 is いっぱく. In my life so far, I've not yet come across ひとはく and ひとぱっく.
Dec 31	comment	Can a Japanese person understand something written in traditional Chinese @AndrewGrimm That one can never be willing to study? Blasphemy! I like studying Japanese :)
Dec 31	comment	Can a Japanese person understand something written in traditional Chinese Question probably needs rewording: many people confused traditional chinese with classical chinese, whilst OP probably meant Chinese written in Traditional Chinese.
Dec 31	comment	Why do people say 小学校の時 or 中学校の時? In fact, in Malay, the expression `masa sekolah rendah/menengah` (where `masa` is `時`) is valid and the most common. You can say it's a literal translation of the sentence in your question.
Dec 31	comment	What romanization scheme is used by programmers? I've always wondered what `foo`, `bar`, `baz` meant too. But I always come across `hoge`, `fuga` in CGI-bin tutorials, so probably the first adopters of CGI-bin in Japan was among those old-timers, or maybe they were in turn influenced by the C tutorials written by the old timers.
Dec 31	comment	Reading of years If it has to be read aloud, usually you'll add the 20 before it, so it's pronounced にせんにねん if it's contemporary.
Dec 31	awarded	Scholar
Dec 31	accepted	When writing for general public, is there a general guideline for selecting kanji?
Nov 14	comment	Is this sentence making a comparison? For one, if it is after ◯◯とは, it is usually なにか. For another, なんか is seldom written in 漢字.
Nov 14	comment	やってもた → やってしまった? What is the grammatical rule behind this? Most young Osakans will probably drop the う when writing (usually text messages), hence becoming もた. They still pronounce it もうた though.
Nov 14	comment	How do you pronounce を after a subject? …that is, until you've become acquainted with a Japanese for more than a year, on which he/she may ask "Out of curiosity, why do you always pause a bit before saying を?"
Nov 14	asked	When writing for general public, is there a general guideline for selecting kanji?