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Huh, how did you make it only show, uh, function words after "confused" like that?

Oh, I see that [i*] has some special meaning.

All prepositions, I guess.

Yeah, I just found that.

Does it ever get things wrong? Like, "I was confused rather quickly", for example (rather than "rather than", which is why I assume it's classified as a preposition, as well as what the two examples show).

That is to say, are the sentences actually parsed and what would have been lexical ambiguities removed, or does it just do a simple "could this be a preposition?" thing?

Yeah, that isn't what I meant.

I meant are they doing it at all.

That's really neat... how do they pull it off?

That's quite impressive.

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I've never seen 蓑 before

I'm pretty sure I've seen it used too

but I'm finding it difficult to google

I've kind of treated it as a catchall education close reason

plus notice how the "how do I study X" reason has considerably more votes than the resource reason in that meta topic! interesting.

oh, it was added much later!

oh, no it wasn't

Time to go back to 'reading timestamps 101'

it was a real killer.. I never knew when any of the deadlines were

I didn't vote to close it as a resources question!

@snailboat ahh... good point... need more custom close reasons!

@ssb The resources 'rule' is much more controversial

I actually wouldn't mind changing that... but I would like something of a clear guideline regarding what is acceptable and what is not

Right now, a new person might be annoyed at this website's quirky rule where they don't allow book-recomendation questions. But it's much more annoying if their book-recomendation question gets closed, but they see lots of others on the site.

On that new question... somehow the word "tome" always strikes me as odd for manga. :)

My CS-books, on the other hand...

I hate that my answer conflates the せん at the end of 渡せん and the せん at the end of 渡しはせん.

It's hard to dispel the illusion that しは drops inbetween 渡 and せん.

I feel like we have something about it somewhere.

Bah.

The problem is that the forward slashes are also the cue that I know what I'm doing when I use romaji.

I guess I'll use "wa".

This attempt at going to 渡しはする first is also misleading for a different reason unfortunately.

The semantic effect of は in that is quite different from the effect of は in 渡しはせん

(Although it's pretty much the same function if you think about it in a certain way. Of course this difference is not particular to this usage of は, it's the same as always.)

Not bad.

One day I will be able to read names.

This link has been floating around the Japanese learner internet lately.. posted here yet?

vvlexicon.ninjal.ac.jp/db

Clicking through there I see this! nlb.ninjal.ac.jp/headword/V.05546

that's a new resource to me too

This looks interesting. Haven't seen either of those either.

Argh, they list 形容動詞 under 形容詞

@snailboat Yes it is... go ahead and cheat

@snailboat Your footnotes are always the best.

「ではない。」 seems a lot more than 8x more common than 「でない。」 in BCCWJ (closer to 16x). I wonder what Martin used to get that number.

Could the 40-year difference in data account for any of it?

Quite possibly.

But so could a biased corpus.

Ah, sometimes I come up with sentences that I'm terribly afraid are grammatically wrong or sound weird, like this one: 「である」も「だ」もどこまで客観的に聞こえたいかによって使えますね

It sounds fine in English: "You know how, depending on how objective you want to sound, you can use both 「である」 and 「だ」, yeah?"

But the Japanese feels sketchy to me.

Also, I wonder, does 比較 imply that you are comparing which thing is better? I think it might...

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寝ます

お大事に。

私は、この数日間引きこもってるので、多分心配することは特にないなｗ

じゃあ私も寝ます。おやすみ。

I'm always amazed when I see a word written in kanji that I've only ever heard, or seen spelt out, and I can read it by reading the kanji

this morning's example: 少年

"it means something like short life... let's see... shooooooou neeeeeen... oh!"

@Choko おだいじに！！！！！！！！

"pulling" a cold sounds just as bizarre an idiom as "catching" one