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| bio | website | andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com |
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| location | Sydney, Australia | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | 19 mins ago | |
| stats | profile views | 370 |
I work at the University of New South Wales, where I use Ruby to analyze biological data.
In part of my spare time, I work on fun programming projects. One was trying to analyze what underlies Wikipedia's Get to Philosophy game. I also worked on one called the "Small Eigen Collider".
I'm currently learning Japanese, and I'm an active participant in lang-8.com, a website where you write journal entries in a language you're learning, and get corrected by native speakers of that language. In return, you correct people writing entries in your native language. Recently, I've been asking a few questions prompted by slightly incorrect English I've encountered on lang-8.
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May 7 |
revised |
Who are Mrs. Fuji and Mrs. Gas? Typo |
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May 7 |
accepted | Who are Mrs. Fuji and Mrs. Gas? |
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May 7 |
asked | Who are Mrs. Fuji and Mrs. Gas? |
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May 4 |
asked | Is ゴールデンウィーク wasei-eigo? |
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Apr 9 |
comment |
Why aren't マンション mansions? Or are they? @ssb the Japanese Wikipedia page describes マンション as wasei eigo. If it's faithful to the British English term, shouldn't it be mere gairaigo, not wasei eigo? |
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Apr 9 |
accepted | Why aren't マンション mansions? Or are they? |
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Apr 7 |
asked | Why aren't マンション mansions? Or are they? |
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Apr 6 |
comment |
Polite way of asking if someone's received an email Your "extended comment" was helpful. If I was better at Japanese, or less nervous about this request, I'd follow your suggestion about calling them. If I needed to make a phone call for this specific scenario, I'd be likely to go to a Japanese-speaking travel agent, and pay them to make the call. So thanks for the suggestion of how to do it in writing. |
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Apr 5 |
revised |
Why is the Japanese government considering adding kanji such as “cancer” to the jinmeiyō kanji? edited tags |
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Apr 5 |
comment |
Can Japanese names be anything? Also related, though not the best of my questions: japanese.stackexchange.com/q/6134/91 |
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Apr 5 |
asked | Polite way of asking if someone's received an email |
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Mar 31 |
accepted | Are all words stripped of bikago when listed in dictionaries? |
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Mar 30 |
asked | Are all words stripped of bikago when listed in dictionaries? |
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Mar 10 |
accepted | Is punning with homophonic kanji common? |
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Mar 10 |
accepted | Do demons get any special honorifics? |
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Feb 12 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Feb 6 |
comment |
What is a クリームパン in English? I tried asking on English Language Learners before asking here. It's currently the second most downvoted question there! ^^ ell.stackexchange.com/q/205/54 |
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Jan 28 |
asked | Is punning with homophonic kanji common? |
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Jan 28 |
comment |
Do demons get any special honorifics? @Chocolate the Japanese edition of Wikipedia also claims that demons get "匹": link "鬼 - 一匹・疋（ひき）". Are you sure? |
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Jan 25 |
asked | Do demons get any special honorifics? |
