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virmaior
virmaior
7:14 AM
@DariusJahandarie but grammar pedantry does have one odd feature -- which is that native speakers generally get to make the rules and break them at will, but non-native speakers are stuck under the tyranny of those pedants
 
 
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Daniel
Daniel
11:19 AM
どうしても、きみをつかまえたかったんだ。
Taken from Doraemon
I don't get the かった at the end
 
 
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Anonymous
12:50 PM
つかまえる→つかまえたい→つかまえたかった
 
Anonymous
1:44 PM
A new publication from Kawahara: The phonetics of sokuon, obstruent geminates
 
Anonymous
This is relevant to our recent question on ん, too
 
Anonymous
Oops, I forgot to give the link to the other paper, the one that's relevant to ん :-)
 
Anonymous
 
Darius Jahandarie
Darius Jahandarie
5:21 PM
I do think ん+vowel words end up with some pretty weird pronunciations sometimes
(Where by 'weird' I mean unintuitive to a native English speaker)
 

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