Karl Knechtel

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Jan 23	comment	Words made from strokes of a kanji like 女 toくノ一 I get that 川 is a cryptic reference to the arrangement of the people, but what does 字 have to do with sleeping?
Jan 19	comment	Expressing “don't work too hard” yukkuri shiteitte ne?
Dec 21	comment	Why do people say 未知数 when it is not a number? I can't make sense of から in the context "ア　から　ン"; I thought it implied some form of causality.
Dec 21	comment	In actual Japanese society, how often are second-person pronouns used? Isn't あんた just a contraction of あなた?
Dec 21	comment	How can I differentiate agreement with the person and agreement with the idea? How about indicating agreement with the idea specifically by explicitly referring to the idea?
Dec 21	comment	What are the rules for reading numbers before a foreign counter-word? @sawa I don't understand what it means to say that one sound or the other is 'underlying' here.
Dec 21	comment	Why do people say 小学校の時 or 中学校の時? "modifier which modifies a noun" sounds like you are describing an adjective.
Dec 21	comment	Why do people say 未知数 when it is not a number? In English we have the idiom "lowest common denominator", which is fairly unrelated to the mathematical meaning... we also say "unknown quantity" in some situations where "unknown" would suffice.
Dec 16	comment	Why are there 3 ways of writing in Japanese? I'm not using them, but I assumed that the historical perspective would be relevant to explaining the roles of katakana vs. hiragana and to justifying the consideration of them as a single script.
Dec 16	comment	Why are there 3 ways of writing in Japanese? I fail to see how katakana and hiragana fail to meet the definition of an alphabet given by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet .
Dec 16	comment	Why are there 3 ways of writing in Japanese? I'm surprised there is no mention of hentaigana or manyougana in this answer.
Dec 16	comment	Why are there 3 ways of writing in Japanese? @Matt, wouldn't that make hiragana and katakana the same alphabet? The phonemes are the same... what distinguishes two letters from two letter-forms of the same letter? I don't think "phoneme" is necessarily accurate, either, because English spelling is highly non-phonetic, but its alphabet is still undoubtedly an alphabet.
Dec 16	comment	What is the correct way to say: “where are you going?” "So, you're going... er, where?" Something like that?
Nov 22	comment	How to construct potential form for adjectives How is "able to be red" different from "possibly red"? The only way I can think of is if the thing in question chooses its own colour...
Nov 22	answered	What is the metaphorical meaning of 手{て}?
Nov 6	comment	What does 「ハイきた。」 mean? ... Honestly, when quoting text from another language, I don't see why it is any more correct to use the quotation marks expected by the embedding language versus those of the quoted language.
Nov 6	comment	My friend said she says “やる時やる.” a lot. What's the translation to english? I thought it might be short for 「じゃない」 but didn't realize that had use as a question... I guess it makes sense, the way informal language typically works. @sawa what is the pronunciation for 「時は」 ?
Nov 5	comment	Meaning of -化 in context Now this is the kind of flexibility that a hacker appreciates in a language!
Nov 5	comment	My friend said she says “やる時やる.” a lot. What's the translation to english? @Flaw what is じゃん in this instance?
Nov 5	comment	What is だって when it's at the beginning of a sentence? I was thinking of how だから gets used in anime. It often seems like an interjection, or like it would be better translated "Like I said" or something like that.