Hah, I'm surprised anything aside from ドッジボール even exists

did my answer agree with yours?

Got a new downvote and I just knew what it meant..

Back to start spreading holiday cheer, I suppose

@ssb Are you there?

yep

huh... I couldn't connect to the site at all yesterday :/

What does コレステロールが下がる mean?

cholesterol goes down

コレステロール - say it out loud :)

But so would コレステロールが下がる食事 be low cholesterol food, or foods that make your cholesterol go down?

I feel like the second is what it should be, but the first makes more sense to me...

it would be the second one

foods that lower your cholesterol

Oh

Cool.

That makes me happy.

if it were low-cholesterol it would use something like 低コレステロール

Yeah.

Thanks.

sure

What about this sentence? 内田さんは、会費の使い込みをしたという疑いをかけられて、苦しんでいる。?

Would that mean there is suspicion that uchida is embezzling club fees, and so they are suffering?

right

I see.

That last part is weird to me.

Uchida is being accused of embezzlement, so he/she is having trouble

Is it "they" are suffering... or is uchida suffering under that suspicioun?

I was assuming they was a gender-neutral reference to Uchida

Yeah.

:P I felt bad saying he/she.

ahh, kk :)

Why is the verb かける？

The age old question...

せん is a staple of every dialect around where I am!

(in the West)

せんといかんばい！

Does anyone know which かける that is? In 疑いをかける？

Yeah. Thank you for the kanji. :D

Is there more than one normally written in kana, or is that the one most the time?

And also, why is it written in kana...

I'm getting a native's second opinion on my 謝る answer

I'm totally OK with downvotes, I just feel sad when I don't have anything to learn from

:P

Nooooo.

I harass you.

Thanks for putting up with me.

words everywhere

what do they mean

Should I accept what they are saying?

lol

同意

Haha.

This site has a beautiful interface.

Where are these numbers from?

Oh boy.

Literally many figurative meanings?

lol

I see.

I don't understand why.

It makes me so sad.

Like when native speakers think of かける... What do they think of?

Is it like a panacea?

I don't know what it means.

Set does?

Hooooow.

I mean I'm okay with that, but like what uses does set have...

Set it down.

Ohohoho.

I do.

Oh yeah.

I can live with かける then, lol.

Whoops what I said is definitely wrong.

Yeah, I mean I've done that with かける a lot, I just got kind of bummed out. But I can dig it.

Haha.

@snailboat The problem with trying to avoid common words that are highly polysemous... is that you end up using words like "polysemous".

"cromulent" has a perfectly bizarre etymology

@snailboat You're ruining my life, I can't use google's 'define' for these words.

@snailboat what's the best resource for testing the frequency in English of "high mountain" vs "tall mountain"

Sure, but my point is, when I typed in 'define polysemous' or 'define cromulent', it gave me an excerpt from some other crappy site.

I think.

Am I alone in thinking that in American English "tall" is used to describe the height of a mountain much more often than "high" is?

I would think that.

that single query seems to suggest otherwise, but I'm not sure if the results cover that specific use

"Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan" vs. "tallest"

or predicatively as you say

420 fuji

Japanese textbooks teach "high" with mountains for all cases and it always struck me as unnatural

but maybe I'm wrong

That's weird.

その仕事には、ドイツ語が話せる杉下さんの方が適任だ. Why does this sentence use 方？ Could i just say その仕事には、ドイツ語が話せる杉下さんは適任だ？

It emphasizes 杉下 as opposed to someone else

like out of the possible candidates

"the choice of"?

Ohhhh.

well, you wouldn't say "the world's highest person"

"highest building" seems weird too

if we want to talk about which peak extends to the highest elevation then.. 納得できる

that doesn't seem to be the way people use it, though

both looking at the examples in the corpus as well as on Japanese sites like alc

of course, in these situations the only thing I can think of is Mario 64..

mariowiki.com/Tall,_Tall_Mountain

It does lead to a lot of confused Japanese people asking the difference between high and tall, though

I always explain it as position vs. size with mountains as an exception, but maybe that explanation is too simplistic

I just can't accept that "a high hill" or "a high building" sounds natural

What the heck does 辞めさせられた mean?

会社を辞めさせられた

Was forced to quit?

非回答者さんが戻ってきたらしい！

:/

What are you frowning about?

It's more of the relative clauses stuff-I'm just trying to figure out what the sentences mean.

I should have prefaced that with yes.

@DariusJahandarie 一瞬、「非回答者さんが戻ってきたらしい！」「:/」って読んだｗｗｗ

そういうのが分からないです

前者は僕にはもっと自然に聞こえる。後者は完全に間違っているわけではないと思うが…

なんだろう…"I had already read it for a week"を言うにふさわしい文脈があるような気がするが、思いつかない…

あ！"When the new painting was shown on the news, I had already seen it for a week"は、間違ってないような…

"been seeing"はその文脈では間違っているからだろうな。

"to see"は瞬間動詞みたいなことだからかな。何度も見ているわけではない。一度だけ見たわけでもない（この場合は"I already saw it a week ago"だな）。重要なのは「見た状態」で"I had already seen it for a week"は自然…だと思う

とにかく、"By the time we first talked about that book, I had already been reading it for a week"の場合は、"been reading"が正しい。

@snailboat What do you think?

In case my Japanese is impossible to understand, let me summarize in English: in the case of "I had already seen it for a week", I think it kind of works. "I had already been seeing it for a week" is weird, because it's not like you were necessarily seeing it over and over during the week (that is to say, it seems to imply some sort of habituality) -- "I already saw it a week ago" has a different meaning, where you only saw it once a week ago.

おやすみ。

Oh yeah, just like "I had already known it for a week." For some reason these feel slightly weird to me, but they do seem to work.

I'm sure there's some coherent way to explain this. I certainly have no hope of coming up with it at 4am though. :-)

how long does it really take to make a design for a SE site, really?

Isn't that the only thing we're waiting on before our graduation?

that's been months now

@ssb longer than the time between sites needing new designs; there's quite a queue

@DariusJahandarie ありがとうございます！

hey now

why aren't you sleeping, young lady

これを書いて、japanese.stackexchange.com/a/19617/1016

その前なんですけど、これを聞いたんです　ell.stackexchange.com/questions/39902/…

で、やっぱり、迷いました。

@ssb I think I'm older than you!

yeah?

how old are you then

are you still awake, young man?

you can answer in the form of a riddle if it's too private

nazonazo...

う～ん？おもいつかないｗｗ

I am making 辛ラーメン

夜食ですか。。

yes

I have a penchant for poor decisions

oh my age is in my profile

damn!

ん？

そうだっけｗｗ

ほんまやｗｗ

名前も分かるｗｗ

やばいｗｗ

you already knew my name

you've used it before!

お

よく覚えてるわねえ・・・

293 とかね

I can't use clever number tricks to say "choko"

「ちょこ」・・数字、ないなあ

oh i didn't tell you

soon I am moving

to

あそ？

阿蘇！

阿蘇に

yes!

あそ～

and maybe I will die

噴火中？

yes

ええええ

i'm moving next year though

but still

阿蘇山 will be right outside

oh, is your cold better now?

はい、治りました、たぶん。

ありがとうございます

good, good

明日仕事お休みでしょうか

はい、いちおう～

そうなんですね

よかったですよね

何か予定あるんですか

チョコ様

ないです～ただ寝てるかな

ゆっくりするのもいいですね

今、阿蘇山のグーグルマップを見てて

俺が明日と明後日に遊びますよ～

i'll be in 南阿蘇村

男の方だったんですか。。。

y..yes?!

アバターがかわいいので、女の子だと。。。

or is that to xeo

Xeoさん

there are plenty of adult men with kawaii waifu avatars

そおなんだぁ

俺は男です :P

I just wanted to say I'm going to play this weekend, as in, games.

Prolly not the right verb, eh

you can say 遊ぶ with games

but to be clear you'd say ゲームする

is that it? I was wondering about the verb for "to play X"

I only found either intransitive verbs for "playing", or transitive verbs that are about playing a musical instrument