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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 |
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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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Sep 28 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Sep 28 |
reviewed | Leave Open What is the breakdown of countries where loan words originate? |
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Sep 27 |
reviewed | Reject suggested edit on Equivalents of Google Ngram for Japanese |
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Sep 27 |
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Looking for transcripts of Japanese-language media Why it's regarded as off-topic: meta.japanese.stackexchange.com/a/797/91 |
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Sep 27 |
answered | What is the breakdown of countries where loan words originate? |
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Sep 27 |
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What is the breakdown of countries where loan words originate? I suspect "Welcome to Japanese" has a breakdown of how many words came from what language. But rather than a mere pie chart, I'd love to see how many words came from which languages broken down by when they were imported. |
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Sep 27 |
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What is the breakdown of countries where loan words originate? edited tags |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Sep 1 |
accepted | What words are used for dolphin meat? |
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Aug 31 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Aug 30 |
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[父]{ちち} vs. [乳]{ちち} — father vs. breast Did ち used to sound like "ti"? So the slang for breasts used to sound like the English slang for nipple? |
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Aug 30 |
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[父]{ちち} vs. [乳]{ちち} — father vs. breast +1 I found this puzzling, as it's the the 母 that has 乳. But I thought it'd be safer to ask on lang-8 instead of JLU. lang-8.com/424295/journals/1590094 On that site, KimuraShinichi makes some interesting claims, but I don't know how accurate they are. |
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Aug 29 |
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What words are used for dolphin meat? @taylor Is イルカ肉 the only word used for dolphin meat, or are there other words as well? |
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Aug 29 |
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What words are used for dolphin meat? @taylor The question on Skeptics Stack Exchange is skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/10631/… |
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Aug 28 |
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Onigiri and nigiri nigiri versus o-nigiri is mentioned in japanese.stackexchange.com/a/2302/91 . I got the impression it wasn't bikago. |
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Aug 28 |
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What words are used for dolphin meat? @phoenixheart6 Primarily because there were several words for dolphin. But come to think of it, in English, even a single animal can get several words. Otherwise we wouldn't have the expression "mutton dressed as lamb". |
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Aug 28 |
asked | What words are used for dolphin meat? |
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Aug 24 |
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Are times after noon expressed in military time? @silvermaple yes, 1 am. I've only seen it in Japan. |
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Aug 24 |
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Is こんばんは too formal for everyday conversation? I've corrected my slides, and acknowledged you in a comment. Thanks. |
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Aug 24 |
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Are times after noon expressed in military time? added 14 characters in body; edited tags |
