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May 16 |
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What work is left on a map? For understanding the meaning, it's good, yes :) As an actual slogan I think it loses a bit of potency and relevance by not mentioning "map"... if I was localizing this, maybe I might go for something like "Work that rewrites the map."? (or "redraws" or "changes"?) ...Anyway. |
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May 15 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What is the significance of a large く character in literary texts? |
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May 15 |
answered | What is the significance of a large く character in literary texts? |
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May 10 |
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から ending a sentence If you have the previous sentence as well, I think you should edit it in. |
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May 6 |
answered | Can もはや also mean “or rather” or “actually”? |
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May 5 |
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What work is left on a map? +1 for also having background information :) |
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May 5 |
answered | What work is left on a map? |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 28 |
answered | What's the reading of -中 as a suffix? |
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Apr 27 |
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だって (datte) meaning It can also mean "I mean" or "After all" (providing justification). だって、私は今、そういう意味で使っています。 |
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Apr 26 |
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What does ～んじゃなかった do in this sentence? The meaning is accurate as translated. But I can't answer "why" and I'm having trouble finding it in J-J dictionaries. |
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Apr 22 |
answered | What is that expression used to generally mean “…is what I would say, but…”? |
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Apr 12 |
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How do I spell “So! So! So! So! So!”? I didn't say, and the article doesn't say, that そう can be written そ in general. I was asking whether そうそうそうそうそう can be written そそそそそ (or whether it might have commas etc!) You can't dismiss this just by saying そう is the correct way to spell そう. The phrase 「そっか‥‥‥」 (meaning exactly そうか) exists with that spelling, and doesn't imply that そう can be pronounced or written そっ in other contexts. |
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Apr 12 |
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How do I spell “So! So! So! So! So!”? -1 because the question was mainly about spelling/orthography of this phrase, and you haven't really touched on it. If this appeared in a book or manga, would it be written そうそうそうそうそう, or would some of the そうs be abbreviated to そ to indicate the fast speed? Would any commas be used? Here is an article which makes a point of writing it as そそそそそ, but I don't know if it's representative of the general approach among most authors. I would like to see a reply which quotes from a book or something. |
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Apr 11 |
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Alignment of people's names @sawa I would also ask (just to be sure) how confident you are that the patterns X X X Y and X X X X Y don't get special spacing, to rule out that it's something special with one-character names. |
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Apr 11 |
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Alignment of people's names @sawa I'll edit to make it more clear if you like, but I'm not sure it's worth it; I have found a book that has a 3-character name spaced (vertically) as 早 川 浩. 早 and 川 are more than one space apart, so my argument doesn't hold water. It is typeset differently from the 4-character names, but still the 川 is not central - enough to make it clear how to parse the name, but not enough to support my argument. I think Dave is closer than I am to the truth here - for 3-character names it helps to have a visual cue as to the correct parsing. |
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Apr 11 |
answered | Alignment of people's names |
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Apr 9 |
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Can I refer to the March 11 earthquake without mentioning the word earthquake? Maybe it was supposed to be ※? I've never seen the 米 kanji used for this. |
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Apr 8 |
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What is the difference between 悪い and だめ?悪い！ by itself would be "Sorry!" or perhaps "My bad!" (going back to the "fault" meaning again). |
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Apr 7 |
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Understanding the grammar behind ～かよ in 知るかよ and マジかよ etc Note that 知るか。 / 食べる（もん）か！ are both easily recognizable as non-questions even without よ. However, 食べるのか seems (to me) to be a literal question without よ. |
