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π. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.
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Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.
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Feb 15 |
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Is γͺγ an “auxiliary verb”? Some discussion in chat, starting from chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8122088#8122088. |
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Feb 6 |
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Why is “Xy” pronounced as “Ki Shi” in Xylitolγγγ·γͺγγΌγ«γ? It might also have been borrowed from German, which preserves the /ks/ pronunciation for such words. |
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Feb 6 |
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What are the pronunciation differences between speaking and singing Japanese? @DaveMG: I disagree. While being art gives singers artistic license to pronounce it however best suits the song, there exist linguistic conventions that get applied by default. To compare, you can have constructive questions on rhyming conventions in English, as while poets sometimes do use slant rhyme, rhyming is mostly governed by real phonology. This is basically the same. This particular question is in principle answerable more definitively than with "lists of various things that individuals have heard" by finding examples that appear in multiple places, or by finding studies or surveys. |
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Jan 6 |
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Is there a list of kanji ordered by usage in novels? Interesting that Heisig misses #66 (δΏΊ) and #158 (θͺ°). |
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Jan 6 |
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Legibility of handakuten and dakuten in small font sizes Related: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2990/… |
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Jan 6 |
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Legibility of handakuten and dakuten in small font sizes You mean text on-screen? The fonts are probably just poorly hinted. |
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Oct 1 |
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Is being called an γͺγΏγ― derogatory? @user1205935: The question is, are nerd (or geek) in English, largely inoffensive now, further along on the insult treadmill than otaku in Japanese?. |
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Sep 27 |
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What is γγ in γγγͺγ? @sawa: Are you sure γγ (copula) and γγ (in γγγͺγ) are really different lexemes? Kansai uses /yaΜ/ for both, which would be an odd coincidence if they're different. |
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Sep 24 |
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Did γγγγ¨γ come from Portuguese “obrigado”? @Dono: Could you post that as a separate answer? I want to link to it from a different answer on Linguistics. |
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Sep 23 |
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Which writing system (hiragana, katakana, or kanji) should we use when writing out someone's name? I disagree that this is off topic, since it's asking about the conventions of Japanese orthography. |
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Sep 23 |
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Is accent position predictable for -i verbs in Osaka/Kansai? @Teno: I don't understand what you mean by "the rule can be applied to the other regions"? I'm only talking about Kansai here. |
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Sep 22 |
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Is accent position predictable for -i verbs in Osaka/Kansai? @Teno: Yes; I'm just talking about the Kansai dialect here. |
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Sep 22 |
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Is accent position predictable for -i verbs in Osaka/Kansai? @Teno: Well, they pattern as verbs and they end in -i, so it's as good a name as any. Japanese doesn't really have adjectives as a lexical class. |
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Sep 22 |
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Repeating the vowel sound of the mora that precedes gemination in songs Maybe "singing with a syllabic glottal stop[...]"? That would require devoicing the entire syllable, which would obviously mess up the melody. |
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Sep 22 |
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What is the most common way to pronounce ι? @ZhenLin: Doesn't seem likely. |
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Sep 22 |
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Repeating the vowel sound of the mora that precedes gemination in songs @TsuyoshiIto: I think he's trying to say that the geminate [tΜ©t] can be explained as having a glottal stop in the underlying (phonemic) representation: /ΚΜ©t/. This simplifies the analysis by not having to allow all the voiceless obstruents to be syllabic. |
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Sep 18 |
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Are there verbs that are neither intransitive nor transitive? (In-)transitivity is a special case of valency. |
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Sep 12 |
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Utterance initial [ΙΎ] @taylor: You can buy the entire book for around 30 USD. The article itself is available here. |
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Sep 12 |
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Which writing system (hiragana, katakana, or kanji) should we use when writing out someone's name? Related: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/5313/… |
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Sep 12 |
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Can I write Japanese name “Midori” this way - η·? Related: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6744/… |
