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Feb 14 |
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What is the proper pronunciation for 十分/１０分? じっぷん or じゅっぷん? じっぷん started as /jipupun/ （しふふん） in OJ. The /pup/ probably became /pp/ very early on. |
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Feb 13 |
asked | What is the proper pronunciation for 十分/１０分? じっぷん or じゅっぷん? |
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Feb 7 |
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Why is “Xy” pronounced as “Ki Shi” in Xylitol「キシリトール」? Actually (Ancient) Greek "x" is pronounced /x/, sort of like the "ch" in "Bach" in German. |
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Feb 3 |
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What suffix do you add to a verb to make it perfective or imperfective? Never got to ask this before, but could 食べていた mean "was eating" or since た is perfective and not actually past, it would be a contradictory statement? |
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Feb 3 |
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is it a rumor that eating really loudly is considered polite? @hippietrail: we definitely don't slurp our 拉面 in China ^_^ mostly because it is more prone to breaking and cooked for much longer period of times than ラーメン. |
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Feb 3 |
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What qualities characterise girlish Japanese handwriting? I'm embarrassed that even though I'm a boy I write Japanese kana like that, almost exactly! (honestly, though, except for the か and the お and the わ which are a bit weird) Though my kanji is more of a sloppy imitation of 楷書...I never learned how to write roundish kanji. |
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Feb 3 |
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Did the Japanese have a word for surrender before WWII? Also, there is no real translation of 懐かしい (that covers all its connotations) in English, but that doesn't mean that Americans abhor old stuff. |
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Feb 3 |
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Did the Japanese have a word for surrender before WWII? I think it is a very common misconception that certain languages lack certain words because of cultural differences, and since modern Western culture is so anti-selfish, sociologists will come out and "point out" how "biased" we are to think certain concepts deserve a word and others do not. (Ridiculous attempt I made up: Japanese doesn't have adjectives, reflective of the nation's pursuit of perfection with no quantifiers. Technically Japanese only has verbs and nouns, no real syntactic adjs) |
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Feb 2 |
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Which forms of a verb do I need to memorize to distinguish ichidan from godan? I can't agree more with your comment on teaching polite form first. Our Japanese teacher was smart enough to go against the textbook and teach us the dictionary form first, and use the 連用形 form to explain the ます and て、た stems. Seems like nobody else got it though, even though I did. Class average was 62. |
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Feb 2 |
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How many forms can a Japanese verb take? If one counts compound suffixes like 食べさせられる, then the total count is possibly infinite (I could do 食べさせられさせられさせられ...; even though it's meaningless it's still a grammatically valid conjugation). |
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Feb 2 |
answered | Plural in ancient Japanese? |
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Feb 2 |
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Did the Japanese have a word for surrender before WWII? Hmm then it means something very different...rather that "the vocabulary of the army has no surrender"... |
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Feb 2 |
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Actual phonetic realization of “devoiced” vowels I always think of unvoiced vowels as "whispered". When we whisper most of the F0 formants are totally gone but different vowels are still distinguishable. |
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Feb 2 |
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Open /o/ and closed /e/ - what are these allophones? The thing from MJ could be in fact influencing this, especially considering that the OP mentioned that generally older people slightly change the vowels. |
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Feb 2 |
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What are the pronunciation differences between speaking and singing Japanese? がっあ was to emphasize that があ wasn't a long vowel. I thought that っ in isolation meant glottal stop? |
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Feb 2 |
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Can kanji-heavy Japanese be easily translated into Chinese? Most Chinese people who care about such an old book usually does read Classical Chinese (known in Chinese as 文言). In addition, Chinese has lost much grammatical features and gained much redundancy, the latter due to too much homophony (imagine cyan being みどりあおいいろ and good being たいへんとてもすばらしよい) and thus "translations" into Modern Chinese would be clumsy and unelegant. I hear Japanese does not seem to have an issue. At least the grammar system is mostly similar; only vocab and small points need to be updated. |
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Feb 2 |
answered | What are the pronunciation differences between speaking and singing Japanese? |
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Feb 1 |
answered | Is it always ができる？ |
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Feb 1 |
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Is Japanese understandable without pitch? Japanese does has pitch and it's very important. It doesn't have stress like English does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent |
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Feb 1 |
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What are common mistakes made by Japanese kombini employees speaking “manual keigo” (バイト敬語) The problem is なる isn't the polite form of である, でござる is. It should be ◯◯円でございます。Not that I'm at all qualified to say that (technically I'm still in my first year of Japanese) |
