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| bio | website | evilestmark.wordpress.com |
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| location | Japan | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 7 months |
| seen | Apr 16 at 2:32 | |
| stats | profile views | 6 |
I have a BA in Linguistics from the college William and Mary.
I'm interested in language acquisition, especially of languages beyond L1.
I'm also a conversationally fluent Japanese speaker interested in teaching Japanese and English.
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Apr 16 |
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Precedence of symbols used to delimit lists in Japanese ・ is used in Japanese almost identically to how we use / in English, to mark variable possibilities of a single item or category. / is much less common in Japanese in general, to the point where I basically never see it in general documents. |
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Apr 16 |
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Difference between 学生・生徒・児童 児童 is not limited to pre-elementary. Elementary teacher's versions of textbooks refer to students as 児童. Also 生徒 I feel is closer to being related to the relationship between 教師 vs 生徒 than having anything to do with age, though on this point I'm not 100% confident. |
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Apr 16 |
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What the difference between these two uses of toki? Yes, your understanding is correct. |
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Nov 9 |
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What's the difference between wa (は) and ga (が)? I just tested this explanation on my Japanese co-worker. They agreed completely with the exhaustive ga situation described above. My entire understanding of the Japanese language just expanded... |
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Nov 9 |
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What's the difference between wa (は) and ga (が)? Just because books have been written doesn't a more elegant answer doesn't exist. |
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Nov 9 |
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Why is “ゼロ” more popular than “れい”? The answers given seem completely reasonable but I wonder also if prestige has anything to do with it. It seems like there's a fairly high level of prestige associated with using recently borrowed loan words as long as they have been sufficiently disseminated. |
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Nov 9 |
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の cannot be used as a pronoun meaning “one” for “highly abstract objects” but what is a “highly abstract object”?(amended) I agree, these example sentences do nothing to illustrate the stated grammar. Usually の is contrasted with こと to illustrate the usage difference for this topic. |
