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Sep 17 |
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Sep 17 |
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Mnemonic phrases for memorizing a word or number sequence I added a long mnemonic for the first elements of the periodic table. The first sentence is standard, but convention seems to vary quite wildly after that. Maybe there's a more standard ending. |
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Sep 17 |
awarded | Editor |
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Sep 17 |
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Mnemonic phrases for memorizing a word or number sequence Added periodic table mnemonic. |
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Sep 14 |
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Is it grammatical to have more than one “WH question” words in a sentence? I feel that "Who is meeting whom where when to do what tomorrow?" is a bizarre way of asking this question in English, and therefore this answer muddies the issue of how natural it is in Japanese. (You might be able to get away with that question by putting stress on each question word; in that case the implication is frustrated confusion.) More normally, this sentence would be broken up. "Who's meeting who tomorrow? When and where are they meeting, and what are they meeting for?" ... or perhaps ... "Who's meeting who tomorrow? Where, when, and to do what?" |
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Sep 8 |
awarded | Critic |
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Sep 8 |
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ねばねば食べねば, relation between ねば and なければ This isn't a complete answer, so I'm only commenting, but する in this form is せねば, not しねば. (I suppose this also suggests that it's not just a shortened form of なければ, as that uses し and not せ...) |
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Sep 8 |
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Where's the negation in 〇〇も書けなりました? @Tsuyoshi Ito: Searching the author's phrase "ができなることを" in quotes on Google, it reports 142,000 results for me (these things vary by user), but closer inspection of the results reveals they only go up to page 5 (46 results total). It may just be a case of someone who doesn't realize just how unreliable Google result counts can be. |
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Sep 7 |
answered | Where's the negation in 〇〇も書けなりました? |
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Sep 7 |
answered | What's the difference between [V-ながら][V2] and [V-ている]間[V2]? |
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Sep 7 |
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How to say “workaround/quick-and-dirty hack” I don't have the confidence to add this as a proper answer, but perhaps one of the compounds of 応急 fits here? 応急策 ( band-aid solution , quick fix ), for instance... |
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Sep 3 |
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Is it possible to tell whether a word is kanji or hiragana without reading it? Incidentally, this often happens when the words have become such a part of the language/grammar that they have become "black boxes" - their original structural meaning/etymology is no longer thought of when using the word. Much like how almost no one today associates "Goodbye" with "God be with ye", さよ（う）なら is written entirely in hiragana, and the kanji which show the word's etymological meaning (左様なら) have become disassociated with the word. |
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Sep 3 |
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Is it possible to tell whether a word is kanji or hiragana without reading it? I was thinking ～てみる, ～てあげる, ～やすい, ～にくい, ～すぎる, ～かねる, ください, こと, もの, まま, つもり, っぽい, and so on. Most words like this can be written in hiragana for a general audience, and often it's inappropriate to use the kanji (*～て見る) or it's rarely used for the word (積り, 儘). It's not a hard rule though. 以上 and 以外 are springing to mind as counterexamples. It's not often that you can label a word as hiragana or kanji based solely on word category without "reading" it specifically. I tried my best to name a few situations, but the other answers show that the kanji of the word itself plays a large part too. |
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Sep 2 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Sep 2 |
answered | Is it possible to tell whether a word is kanji or hiragana without reading it? |
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Sep 1 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Sep 1 |
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What is the nuance when は directly follows a verb in plain form? Thank you again! My lack of knowledge of the linguistic terminology side of Japanese is showing. ^^; |
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Sep 1 |
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What is the nuance when は directly follows a verb in plain form? Ah, I just realized that my last example wasn't in plain/attributive form. Is it the same idea, or just が acting as "but"? (Hmm, almost a new question at this point...) |
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Aug 31 |
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What is the nuance when は directly follows a verb in plain form? Simple as that, huh. Thanks for the answer :) |
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Aug 31 |
awarded | Scholar |
