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| location | Toronto, Canada | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
| seen | May 19 '12 at 19:10 | |
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Aug 25 |
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Aug 25 |
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What is the role of の in 「お父さんのバカ!」 -1: You could say "stupid ity of my father", or equivalently "my father's stupidity", but either way I would say that a possessive relationship is indeed implied - even though stupidity is an abstract concept, the English mind sees it as a possession of the father in question. This doesn't really answer anything; 's and of really work the same way in English, a few stylistic choices and idioms notwithstanding. |
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Aug 25 |
answered | Why is there 丼 {どんぶり} in 丼勘定 {どんぶりかんじょう}? |
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Aug 21 |
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What is the pun in 猥シャツ? ... I don't think you understand. Why is 「ワイシャツ」 used to mean "dress shirt" (it would appear to be some kind of wasei-eigo), and not, say, 「エクスシャツ」? |
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Aug 21 |
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What is the pun in 猥シャツ? So what I was asking is, why do they call it that in Japanese? |
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Aug 21 |
accepted | So-called の-adjectives - how does の *really* work? |
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Aug 21 |
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So-called の-adjectives - how does の *really* work? 金を愛すること makes sense (I can't understand how 対 is being used here), but that doesn't really leave me any closer to understanding how this works in general. :( |
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Aug 21 |
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What is the pun in 猥シャツ? I've never heard a dress shirt called a "Y shirt" in English. Is that a UK thing? |
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Aug 21 |
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Is there an equivalent to George Carlin's “Seven Dirty Words” in Japanese? I haven't previously seen the prefix お used here... it seems somehow sarcastic... |
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Aug 21 |
accepted | How can I say “make a big deal [about/out of/of] X”? |
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Aug 21 |
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How can I say “make a big deal [about/out of/of] X”? The more I think about it, the more I prefer this way. |
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Aug 21 |
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So-called の-adjectives - how does の *really* work? *sigh* So I have to figure it out again for each case? Ok, and how about the 金 examples? |
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Aug 21 |
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What is the pun in 猥シャツ? Is ワイ -> Y referring to the V formed by the neck and the | where the buttons are (you can tell I'm not in the shirt business)? |
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Aug 21 |
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What is the pun in 猥シャツ? I couldn't find 褻 in my usual reference, and trying it with Google gives primarily Chinese rather than Japanese results. |
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Aug 21 |
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So-called の-adjectives - how does の *really* work? Of course not; the point is to understand the difference more properly. |
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Aug 20 |
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So-called の-adjectives - how does の *really* work? How do we figure out which relationship is associated with a given noun? |
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Aug 20 |
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What does する means when it does not mean “do” ? I can't understand, from the description, how Xにする becomes "to decide on X". Actually, I don't even understand how "act in a way that accomplishes an objective" could have an indirect object. A manner of being accomplished, maybe... |
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Aug 20 |
asked | So-called の-adjectives - how does の *really* work? |
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Aug 20 |
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What to say after someone sneezes Most people in the west probably have no idea where "bless you" comes from. Many even learn instead to use the German "gesundheit" (literally "health"), though it might be the only word of German they know. |
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Aug 20 |
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What is おやすみNASA胃？ Maybe some kind of gyarumoji? |
