"~~のこと考えると本当に何も手につかなくなる" -- just want to be sure I'm understanding the expression 手がつかない here, but this means that this person becomes so focused on someone that she cannot focus on anything else, right?

@ssb seems like work anxiety in general ejje.weblio.jp/content/… I might be totally wrong though!

also swapping つ　with 付 seems to add a different nuance, hmm

(taking 手がつかない) outside of any other context, that is!

Oh, I see. I got confused by the English translations!

By the way, what does 趣くままに mean? "Same as always?" (lit. facing the same direction as before)? (as in faithful, consistent)? Googling ”趣く” to find out how it's used gave a lot of pictures with that phrase.　e.g. 7netshopping.jp/books/detail/-/accd/1102246770

google.lv/…

ある状態に向かって行く [2] from goo.ne.jp seems to consistent with that,　but just to make sure! まま always gives me trouble

Looking up examples for 錯 kunyomi usage: 「好色と倒錯の違いとは？」「好色なら羽を使うが、倒錯なら鶏をまるごと使う」. Made my day.

Ha! Oops, sorry. You're right, I meant the Chinese reading.

Hello, oh wise ones. Once again I come asking for help. Anyone around?

No one wants to say yes until he or she has a chance of looking at the question ;)

^_^

I just installed Google Japan Input on my Android tablet and I can't figure out how to type compound (is this the correct term?) hiragana like きょ. Can anyone teach me how to do it?

I've never seen Android... Do you type with Latin letters?

No, let me see if I can find a screen shot online.

on an iPad/iPhone you can choose between kana input and Latin letters

and then きょ is "kyo"

see the thing which says ゛○　大＜＞小 in the bottom left? press it after typing "よ"

it might be easier for you if you change to QWERTY in the Google Japanese Input prefs

Also the Google predictions are pretty smart, so you can just type きよう and 今日 will show up in the predictions

I normally don't use 12 keys

@Earthliŋ Here's the keyboard. For single hiragana I need only to press the appropriate key and drag in the right direction.

When not using qwerty I usually skip manually setting each dakuten and small thing

@GitGud cypher's got your answer four lines above your message

@snailboat I hope that's not the only way because I want to strip my brain of thinking in romaji first and hiragana second.

@cypher Great, it worked. Thanks a lot.

@snailboat My experience is completely limited to what I linked, so I don't appreciate how good it is. Actually, to some extended I do, I did think it looked great the first time I saw it.

Now I can type on the Memrise tasks!

@GitGud Neat avatar, too! I don't think I've seen it here on Japanese.SE...

@Earthliŋ I'm not even registered yet. I just started learning japanese on my own a little more than two months ago. I haven't had any good questions yet, except for one which I eventually decided it wasn't worth to ask. Do you understand my avatar?

I haven't studied much foundations of maths... but I've seen it often enough to recognize your avatar =)

@snailboat I think that's what I see most people in Japan use...

^_^

@snailboat Can you show me your standard input method?

I see. Have you ever tried setting your input method to japanese and switch to romaji when necessary? How did it go? I'm asking this to whoever wants to answer.

My computer keyboard layout (neo) isn't available on iOS...

@snailboat I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that 'japanese computers and keyboards' come set up in such a way that unless you press a specific key, when you type something, japanese characters will come out.

@snailboat I see. What I wish to do is to approximate my typing habits to that of a typical japanese computer user (if there's such a thing, is there?).

What about on computers?

I see. So they type in romaji and it spits out either Hiragana or Katakana depending on whether a certain key is locked or not, I assume.

More like tablets because I hate typing there, as I do on phones.

@snailboat Yeah, I assumed so. In fact I've had a Japanese guy explain it to me on-line, but I think I may have misunderstood him.

I will describe how I now think it works, please tell me if this is correct.

I changed my mind, I realised I'm actually confused as to how they operate :P

I get that. What I'm confused about is how you go from Romaji to Hiragana to Kanji.

I googled it, I think I get it now.

So the Japanese input method seems to be quite universal. Any disavantages in swapping to it?

The input method I linked to earlier is called Flick.

I thnk using romaji input on phones at least is very uncommon

Flick seems good for phones.

I can't say for sure, but my guess is that people still don't use romaji