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Nov 7 |
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Difference between 何の～ and どんな～ discrete vs. continuous... I would have said countable vs. uncountable, but that's almost the same. I agree with your hunch. Also see this question on the difference between どうする and 何をする. Both that question and yours probably deserve a unified answer. |
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Nov 6 |
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What does どうした mean and how does it differ from 何をした? added 24 characters in body |
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Nov 6 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Why do Japanese speakers have difficulty pronouncing “L”? |
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Nov 6 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What differences should I look out for between male vs female speech? |
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Nov 6 |
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When should I replace kanji with hiragana? Both more and less simplified. Usually only those characters which are used for sound rather than meaning are replaced with hiragana. Those characters which are there to convey meaning, stay (in traditional form!). I quite like Japanese for that. (Have a look at Man'yogana to see why and how this happened.) |
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Nov 6 |
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What does どうした mean and how does it differ from 何をした? added 48 characters in body |
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Nov 6 |
reviewed | Leave Open Why do Japanese speakers have difficulty pronouncing “L”? |
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Nov 6 |
reviewed | Reviewed Why do Japanese speakers have difficulty pronouncing “L”? |
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Nov 6 |
reviewed | Reviewed Why do Japanese speakers have difficulty pronouncing “L”? |
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Nov 6 |
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When should I replace kanji with hiragana? @dainichi Thanks, I had tried only WWWJDIC and it wasn't listed in there. Here's a link for anyone who is curious: dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/35942/m0u |
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Nov 6 |
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When should I replace kanji with hiragana? added 49 characters in body |
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Nov 5 |
answered | When should I replace kanji with hiragana? |
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Nov 5 |
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What does どうした mean and how does it differ from 何をした? added 447 characters in body |
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Nov 5 |
answered | What does どうした mean and how does it differ from 何をした? |
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Oct 31 |
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Horizontal writing in the middle of vertical writing added 44 characters in body |
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Oct 31 |
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Addressing children in Japanese Thanks for expanding on the use of さん・君・ちゃん. I based my age cutoffs on the situation, where you don't know the child you want to address at all (and you don't know the parents that well either), which is what I understood from the question. There are no clear lines, however. In my yoga class here in Tokyo, all women are addressed with ちゃん, women well into their 40s or 50s; most men, too, are addressed with 君. The prime minister's children, say, would almost always be さん (or 様), no matter what age, I presume. |
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Oct 31 |
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Horizontal writing in the middle of vertical writing @istrasci Oh dear, I mean letter by letter, left-to-right, then line by line top-to-bottom for horizontal writing... I can change the wording, if my terminology goes against the grain. |
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Oct 31 |
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Oct 31 |
answered | Horizontal writing in the middle of vertical writing |
