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Feb 27 |
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What does the phrase んと流す mean? In this case, 得る is acting on its own and 赦し is nominalized, right? Tricky to parse! |
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Feb 27 |
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Why are the words for prefecture so complicated? How about Fuhanken triple-zoning system? Fuhanken regulatory triad? Man, that's a mouthful no matter how you try to compress it. |
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Feb 26 |
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Feb 26 |
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Textbook on Technical Japanese Because I need to build vocabulary fast. Reading papers is slow accretion with sparsely placed new words, and it builds associations within the context of the paper's area. Reading a dictionary is high-speed acquisition with high new word density, and it allows me to build associations freely. |
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Feb 26 |
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Textbook on Technical Japanese I've looked at the Iwanami math dictionary, but it doesn't seem current enough or wide enough in scope to do the job, as a couple reviews have hinted on Amazon. |
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Feb 26 |
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Textbook on Technical Japanese Positive support for this kind of question on meta: meta.japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/726/… Comment on similar thread supporting topic scope: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/698/… Also, the resources topic has no entry for technical Japanese, so a question like this is constructive and stimulating, even if the result is eventually added there. |
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Feb 26 |
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Japanese dictionary for mathematics/computer science jargon It's so expensive, though, and the reviews don't indicate its scope (abstract math? applied math? graduate level?) |
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Feb 26 |
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Textbook on Technical Japanese Clarified question. |
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Feb 26 |
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Textbook on Technical Japanese Truth be told, I don't have much trouble picking up the meaning from the kanji of a technical document (電圧 is an easy one), it's the spontaneous production in, say, an academic discussion that I need to practice. In order to do that, I need to build my vocabulary in bulk. |
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Feb 26 |
answered | Does the Japanese language only have negative terms for flirting? |
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Feb 26 |
asked | Textbook on Technical Japanese |
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Feb 26 |
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what exactly does the suffix とはいえ mean? Wouldn't that imply that somewhere in a corpus you could find the reasonable substitute, the te-form: 「とは言えて」? I would bet a dollar you'll have to dig. |
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Feb 26 |
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What separates the different ways to ask a question in Japanese?(I.E. 何, どう, どんな and so on) Just trying real hard not to be a prescriptivist :) |
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Feb 26 |
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What's with this “On reading”/“Kun reading” thing? Is it important to learn both as a beginner? The Wikipedia article should probably say something more like "contextually appropriate", or something. For example, 経緯 can be read as けいい or いきさつ, but it depends on where you're reading it. If I were looking at an older novel I would go for いきさつ, if I were reading a modern text I would use けいい. |
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Feb 26 |
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what exactly does the suffix とはいえ mean? I don't know if it's intentional, and I wouldn't assume as much. Omission of kanji can come from simple disuse (or perhaps 常用 effect as much as anything else (cf. 慥か, 秤). A word that has multiple subtle kanji choices based on nuance is also often written in hiragana, avoiding the issue (like 作・創・造る, but there are better examples I can't remember). It sounds more plausible that the huge frequency with which いう and other markers of its type occur led to habitual omission, while the use of the verb 言う in its simpler form, with its lower frequency, has not experienced the same effect. |
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Feb 26 |
answered | what exactly does the suffix とはいえ mean? |
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Feb 26 |
answered | What exactly does とばかりに mean? |
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Feb 26 |
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You can use 「押し開ける」 to say “to push open”, but can you say 「押し閉める」 to mean “to push closed”? Yeah, sorry I don't have a reference. I think it was given by the teacher in class. If not, it was from either Tsukuba, or Integrated Intermediate Japanese. |
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