hisashiburi again

I need to stop leaving for so long

おひさ。

ssbさんは漢検の勉強をしてたっけ？

I was/am, although it's sort of on hiatus

そうですか…

最近何をしてますか？

仕事 and 大学院の勉強

お。ssbさんは大学院だったっけ？！

yeah sort of, just a silly terminal masters degree that I'm doing online to help me be more secure in finding employment in a post English teaching world

なるほど。それは賢明ですね。頑張ってください！

私もたまに大学院で学ぶことを考えるけど、とりあえず働き続けてます。

For me it's kind of a necessity.. we'll see about a phd someday, though

In general, I wouldn't recommend a PhD -- at least not in the humanities

but depending on your goals, it might make sense

// completely separately, after installing "El Capitan" the IME on my laptop but not my mac mini has gotten very annoying for language learning (it no longer gives a dropdown list of candidates)

I don't like the term masu stem

but the original wording of the title was beyond bizarre

I'm not a big fan of the novel terms used for instructing non-natives in Japanese (I'm not sure who authored them)

wow, that's really interesting the way it auto-opens wikipedia (did you have to edit it to undo that?)

I'm not saying I necessary like it. Does it only happen to wikipedia?

haha, well right now the discussion I'm looking for is how to restore the IME dropdown in El Capitan

which bizarrely behaves differently on two different computers

I think they switched from cats to rocks a while ago

Well, I think yosemite was the sweet spot for Japanese IME

could do ctrl-j to switch to hiragana and control-; to switch to romaji

so I could just keep typing

plus a nice dictionary built into the IME so I could be more sure I was picking the right kanji

Yes, I think that's beneficial

I switched for two reasons. One, the last Windows computers I had were XP and they went EOL. Two, I don't do any system-specific programming (do still write some PHP) so I don't need Windows for anything for work. (I guess three: work pays for the computers).

it now gives ぃ

same for the entire set

that might be an option setting somewhere

haha

might still be better for logical reasons

I do feel like I'm going insane though. My settings are exactly the same, but the Mac Mini gives me the drop down list on down key but the mba does not ...

well, the use of "l" to make the small character encourages the belief that Japanese has an "r"

whereas there's little need for an x-like symbol (on English pronunciation) for Japanese orthography

It's quite possible I just don't know what I'm talking about

I see I see

but how exactly do you say that sentence that you say so often?

(and with that it's time to go home for the evening)

:)

recently, my ability to distinguish /r/ and /l/ in my own production is going down

hello chat, I am trying to figure out what is the Japanese noun (if there is one) for a "destination line"/"line transferring to" when transferring on a train station; I already been informed (in the comments under japanese.stackexchange.com/a/28461/11104) that 乗り換え先 is the "destination of a destination line" -- the other guess 乗り換え線 does not seem to exist either

文字化け？

他の人にもこう見えてるんだろうか・・

@macraf 「乗り換え先」「乗り換え線」も日常では使わないので

何のことかよく分かりません

その◯◯と言う名詞ありますか？

@snailboat sure, I have no idea where acute accents came from, I copied the wiki title, thank you for correcting

@virmaior I'm doing computer science now

I'm interested in a whole lot of things, but not quite sure yet as I haven't delved into much advanced coursework. I'm still finishing prerequisites as I was a humanities undergrad.