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An intermediate-level learner with an unhealthy fascination with kanji.
Strong dislike for all "One true way to learn Japanese" pronouncements.
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May 16 |
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How important is gendered language in reality? This 'question' meanders through several opinions, conjectures and sub-questions before eventually asking a subjective question. Some subjects here, if reformulated into a more concise format, would certainly be welcome as separate questions. Many of the more specific questions actually have been answered in other questions such as this question and its various duplicates, the feminine-speech and gender tags. |
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Mar 7 |
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How to read the Modulo operator in a formula Would you mind splitting your questions into two separate questions? It makes them easier to find if someone is searching for the answers later, since searches are heavily affected by titles. (as a bonus, more rep!) |
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Feb 27 |
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Help me please with translation 人の身で灯り Please note the entry in our FAQ entry for help on formatting questions. The markdown bug that prevents bolding text from working correctly is addressed there. |
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Feb 27 |
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Textbook on Technical Japanese Your first link included a score tally in which the support was not particularly strong. (Note that downvotes are not factored in such a vote) Interestingly, your second link should have been closed as off-topic... and even if it wasn't, your question here should have been closed as a duplicate of it or this one. |
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Feb 25 |
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降参する vs 諦める @ZhenLin: Would it sound/look incongruous next to 絶対? |
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Feb 12 |
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When you combine adjectives with the て-form does it imply a relationship between them? @user1310749: That would be an excellent question to ask by itself. |
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Feb 8 |
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The forward slash (English vs Japanese) @Peter: On the contrary, context is the only way to know which question you're asking. Without context, the question is unanswerable since there simply isn't enough detail. The choice for a sentence, a list on a GUI checkbox, and a list on a sign have completely different answers. |
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Jan 25 |
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What is the difference between 上{あ}げる and 挙{あ}げる? '手を揚げる'? pretty sure that was supposed to be '手を挙げる' |
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Jan 17 |
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What's the difference between 平和 and 和平? I've always thought of 和平 in terms of the tongue-in-cheek comment "Peace broke out in XYZ today, as the two sides couldn't remember what they were fighting over", which has been spoofed repeatedly in comedic TheOnion/SNL news broadcasts. |
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Jan 16 |
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Why is watermelon written in Hiragana, whereas melon is written in katakana? The confusing bit of this question is the last sentence. What is the general rule that you believe this is an exception to? |
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Jan 16 |
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A は／が difference @dainichi: It's in there, I think. (might have been a paraphrase) "represent state change" refers to the context, though... not the specific verb. I was trying to get at that in the next sentence or two... you expanded somewhat more on it. |
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Jan 15 |
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A は／が difference I have a MUCH harder time distinguishing thematic and contrastive-は, and some linguists argue that the distinction doesn't actually exist. (I think the argument is that there is no such thing as a thematic-は without a contrastive element) |
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Dec 12 |
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Difference between kara and n desu? こわい is a 形容詞/iAdjective, so it is basically never followed by a だ (although 形容詞＋です is the formula to make a sentence-final 形容詞 polite). For a 名詞/noun like 大丈夫, the ＋だ is required to end the sentence. What I think is happening in the こわいから example is technically forming a dependent clause, then eliding(?) the main part of the sentence. |
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Nov 29 |
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What's the difference between Ichidan/Godan and Ru/U verbs classification? It has some work to go before it reaches acceptable "FAQ"-level material, but there is a cross-reference for a few terms on meta |
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Nov 14 |
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What is the longest word in Japanese? Isn't this the sort of thing that could be answered with a trivial perl/ruby script and the EDICT file? |
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Oct 29 |
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How do you express “try”? @TsuyoshiIto: It's ambiguous. If the speaker has not yet started the activity, "I'm trying to do X" implies that there is something preventing them from starting. If they have already started a regular/repeating activity, it can either have the same "I am having difficulty" implication, or it can have an implication that they are somewhat new to the activity. "I am trying Kendo" overlaps with this second meaning. |
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Oct 18 |
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Are snowclones common in Japanese? I'm not entirely convinced it's possible for an individual to use a snowclone, to be honest. Rereading the coining of the term, it looks like a description for something journalists do. When an individual does it, the examples given would be more appropriately called "following a meme". |
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Oct 4 |
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Do we use odd day pronunciations outside of calendar ranges? @Teno: That's not really the same, since 16 and 26 use にち, unlike 14 and 24... it's not an extension of a pattern seen earlier. |
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Oct 2 |
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Pronunciation of 日 in compound words On a side note, all days ending in '4' are also irregular, and use ~よっか. So the 14th is じゅうよっか, the 24th is にじゅうよっか, even though all the other days >10 switch over to ~にち. |
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Oct 1 |
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Why does the か come before です in this question? Note that I did receive an answer from TsuyohiIto in chat a few days ago. |
