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May 6 |
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Pronouncing が as 'nga' Actually, the rules for /g/ occurring as the first consonant of a non-initial constituent of a compound word are very complex, so it would perhaps be better to use examples that are not compound words... also, nasal /g/ can occur at the beginning of a sentence, namely when you start your sentence with the conjunction が. |
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May 4 |
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Why censor this one kanji? I vaguely recall that some users on some BBS self-censor company names... but I always thought that was to defeat search engines more than anything else. |
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May 4 |
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Why censor this one kanji? We do the same thing in English, no? ‘D*mn’ etc. |
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Apr 30 |
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Does all kana in the う line rhyme? す and つ are indeed pronounced with a fronted vowel compared with く. This should be mentioned in any good analysis of Japanese phonology. |
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Apr 27 |
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Should I use On reading or Kun reading for numbers? ひとり、ふたり、みたり、よたり、いとり…… |
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Apr 26 |
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pronounciation of じょ and よ (And, of course, it is implicit that native speakers of do not have problems distinguishing between the two sounds.) |
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 21 |
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Usage of simplified chinese in place of some kanji in handwriting It must be pointed out that the simplified form of 門 in Chinese is not the same as the one in Japanese, but Unicode conflates them. |
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Apr 20 |
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Kanji pairs that mean and are pronounced the same by themselves The more complicated characters feel more sophisticated, of course. In all your examples the simpler character is more common by far. |
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Apr 20 |
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Problem understanding some parts in a sentence －てくの and －んだろうって 「……着ていくのが正しいんだろうと……」 |
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Apr 18 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 18 |
answered | How many Kanji characters are there? |
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Apr 17 |
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What does “一味一禪” mean? @Chocolate 「禪」は旧字体なんです。 |
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Apr 8 |
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Is there a way to differentiate て and って when transcribing speech? I'm fairly sure the question is simply, do て and って sound different? |
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Apr 8 |
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Is there a way to differentiate て and って when transcribing speech? They are phonologically different. |
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Apr 7 |
answered | How did 冷やかし come to mean “window-shopping”? |
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Apr 7 |
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What is the etymology of 〜ません（でした）? 〜んかった sounds terrible. If I recall correctly the correct negative past conjugation is 〜なんだ, as preserved in western dialects. |
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Apr 7 |
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Why aren't マンション mansions? Or are they? The OED gives “a large residential building divided into flats” as definition 1(e) for ‘mansion’, with the annotation “ In pl. (sometimes with sing. concord). Chiefly Brit.” |
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Apr 7 |
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What is the etymology of 〜ません（でした）? Yes, it's a contraction of 〜ぬ, and 〜ます is a サ変 verb like す, so its 未然形 is indeed 〜ませ. |
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Apr 2 |
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~ろ・~ろも・思うて・~たった in 越後 dialect (新潟弁?) added 73 characters in body |
