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Anonymous

12:04 AM

I believe that ukemi can be translated as receiving body (受け身). It is what uke (受け, whoever receives the technique) does when nage (投げ thrower) or tori (取り, grabber) applies a technique. Am I correct in my assumptions? Are my kanji correct?

Anonymous

Should this be punted to japanese.se?... — Sardathrion 15 hours ago

Anonymous

Should it?

Earthliŋ

Hard to say. It's better than some questions we get here...

But it's also just a simple dictionary look-up...

I think we should close it if it were here...

Anonymous

I only know 受け身 in the context of grammar

Anonymous

Just the "passive" meaning

Earthliŋ

12:09 AM

Well, I guess it's used in that sense in 合気道 as well (the passive partner)

ssb

受け身 always struck me as kind of the odd one out in grammar lingo

受動態 'feels' right

Anonymous

12:50 AM

ssb

1:32 AM

i wonder if they'll keep adding icons to the logo as new sites continue to graduate

Anonymous

Well, it would be disappointing if they started just scratching the word "beta" off the screen and leaving it at that :-)

ssb

2:44 AM

I mean on the new meta site logo!

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jkerian

11:27 AM

hmm... ノゴエイハヴィ

is this エイ one sound? or two?

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ssb

12:33 PM

what is that word

jkerian

it's a fictional corporation

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Anonymous

6:37 PM

I don't think I entirely understand this question:

Anonymous

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