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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 | 3 hours ago | |
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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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Jan 25 |
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Words made from strokes of a kanji like 女 toくノ一 And 森 (three kanji for trees) can mean forest. |
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Jan 24 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jan 24 |
asked | What is a クリームパン in English? |
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Jan 23 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jan 21 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jan 20 |
answered | What words are used for dolphin meat? |
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Jan 19 |
revised |
Why is ローマ字 spelt without an ン? Add background |
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Jan 19 |
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Why is ローマ字 spelt without an ン? @snailplane Your answer is reasonable (I +1'd it), but I'd ideally like an authoritative answer mentioning exactly which European word the ローマ came from, and what the ローマ meant. So that I can use this question as a canonical reference if I come across someone misspelling the English word romajji (derived from the Japanese word "ローマ字") as "romanji". |
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Jan 19 |
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Why is ローマ字 spelt without an ン? @snailplane it means that I'm not making the assumption that Tsuyoshi Ito is accusing me of making. |
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Jan 18 |
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Why is ローマ字 spelt without an ン? @TsuyoshiIto Did you notice the paragraph "Did early Europeans' term for Roman letters not use the letter "n"?" in my question? |
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Jan 12 |
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Is it acceptable in Japanese to write kanji characters in the Chinese style? When you talk about foreigners being stroke order perfectionists, are you referring to non-Chinese foreigners, or Chinese and non-Chinese foreigners? |
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Jan 8 |
accepted | Legibility of handakuten and dakuten in small font sizes |
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Jan 7 |
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Why is ローマ字 spelt without an ン? The Roman empire did cover a fair bit of territory, but I don't think it got as far as Japan! +1, though. |
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Jan 6 |
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Legibility of handakuten and dakuten in small font sizes @ssb The trigger for asking this was japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9913/why-is-ローマ字-spelt-without-an-ン#comment20959_9913 , where I couldn't immediately tell if it was ボ or ポ. But it's been a problem before, though I can't remember what it was. |
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Jan 5 |
asked | Legibility of handakuten and dakuten in small font sizes |
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Jan 5 |
asked | Why is ローマ字 spelt without an ン? |
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Jan 5 |
revised |
Do machine transliteration websites exist? Fix spelling of romaji. Spelling as romaji rather than rōmaji because I'm using the English, not Japanese, word |
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Jan 4 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What's wrong with using 内に in this sentence? |
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Dec 29 |
accepted | Why is Jordan (the country) spelt ヨルダン? |
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Dec 28 |
awarded | Popular Question |
