what a sleepy day

@ssb Yes! Winter makes me sleepy all around.

Couldn't get out of the kotatsu this morning...

Guess so

Especially since the japanese apartments in general don't get good insulation...

You'd rather heat only under the blanket

And it's cool to have breakfast with your feet warmed

nothing will ever replace central heating

but a kotatsu is still nice to have

Well the main problem is that every other room is fucking cold

I thought my feet would freeze on the kitchen floor

even if you have proper heating they're still so damn cozy

yup

But clearly a must have in Japan

Well, maybe one day I will get to experience one.

Yep, although they are pretty pricey outside Japan apparently

Seen a binch of people building their own actually

bunch*

Sounds dangerous! Unregulated hot thing that you are trapped under...

Well it seems you can buy the heating element

And then simply build the appropriate furniture

I really want a 炬燵, but as you said they are quite pricey at least in America.

That combined with the fact I'm probably switching apartments soon has been making me put it off .

I really wish there was a thorough analysis somewhere of what kind of semantics results in something becoming a 助動詞 instead of a 接続助詞 (or something else).

Things with strong modality or effects on tense or aspect seem to become 助動詞, but that's a rather vague understanding of it.

The really interesting part is that things do specifically shift from 助動詞 to 助詞 when they lose some of those attributes (both て and たって went through this process, as well as べ from べし), so it's just that things need to directly modify the verb when they are changing its tense or aspect, but they need to not modify the verb when they stop doing those things.

I bet sawa would have some good references here. I wish he was still an active member.

Hi

whats up

is everyone doing okay

hi, lots of work :( otherwise a bit tired, but ok

thanks, I hope things are good with you :)

はい、元気です。ここは朝ご飯です。

jeez, I am rubbish at relative clauses

Relative clauses confused the fuck out of me at first :(

I think I've understood them when the head noun is the subject of the relative clause, but I want the object of the relative clause

damn you lang-8, for making me learn more

Tbh, they still usually confuse me

Since there's no indication of a relative clause until.. you hit the noun.

yeah

it's fine when there's only one at the start of the sentence

ye

it gets confusing when like every noun has one

ああ、昼ご飯だから、またね。

じゃあね

Damkerng さん、Thank you for answering my question on ELL

@Choko Ah, you're welcome! It's the least I can do in return for your help!

I hope it's useful.

I need to read these answers more carefully... but my brain doesn't work now

sleeppyyy

Aww...

Thank you~ おやすみ

I kind of wish the hats lasted a little longer.

Like until the end of February.

I don't. The SNR of the whole network drops like 3 dB for the whole hatfest.

I'm not sure how it goes on the bigger sites, but if my memory serves me correctly, the only real difference on JLSE was that it was more active, which was nice.

In particular it seems to encourage more activity from regular members, and most of the noise here comes from non-regulars, so for the most part I think it may have even increased the SNR.

Personally I find it pretty fun, which is nice, since it livens things up a little bit for me at least. :-)

I don't think hats ever made me actively try to participate more, but it was a nice little surprise if I got one