It's interesting that you say するにはしたけど but not するはしたけど, but then you can say both するにはするけど and するはするけど.

For some reason 〜は〜けど doesn't allow past tense in the second hole.

@DariusJahandarie. I hate English. 「みんな」を使うなら「さん」は使えない。「みな」使うのは天皇陛下ぐらいかな。一般の人が使うのは「みんな」

そうですね…「みな」を一つの単語として使うのは普通の会話には少しフォーマル過ぎですね。

KyloRenさんはどこの人ですか？英語のネイティブじゃないのですか？

Born in Australian, Australian parents. Grew up in Japan. You could say I am native English speaker, but I only briefly formally studied English at an English school. Turning 40 this year and have been in Japan for 30 years now.

@snailplane そやねん・・ｗｗ

@snailplane へへ :D

この質問の例文の訳なんですけど　japanese.stackexchange.com/q/6962/9831

hard work terrible ってなってるんですけど

terrible ってこういうふうに後ろにつける？

どういう用法ですかね。Tim さんイギリス人だしなー

おお・・

本当はどういう風に書きたかったのか、わかんないから、ほっとこう・・

Timさんぜんぜん来なくなっちゃったもんね・・

@snailplane. Sorry I am not following what you mean?

@snailplane, ahh I think I see now. I explained it Japanese as I mixed everything up. Too early in the moring for using the brain at that point in the day. 「みんな」を使うなら「さん」は使えない。「みな」使うのは天皇陛下ぐらいかな。一般の人が使うのは「みんな」

> 「猫の山田さんの鼻」would only make sense if the cat's name were 山田さん.

なんかワロタ

「山田さん」っていう猫ｗ

Hmm, don't like new faces around here. Looks like I am ruffling a few feathers?

@KyloRen what makes you think that?

@Flaw, down votes on answers that clearly give the answer plus more information. That or people who don't understand something down vote? Either way 5 answer and 2 have already different ones already received down votes.

well don't let that affect you too much

there will be people that will disagree with an answer, and we cannot remove anyone's freedom to downvote.

@Flaw, not to mention questions getting more up votes than answer. I don't think it is a case disagreeing, if the answer is right it right. The fact is that this is obviously a small tight-knit community and I have seen on other stack forums up voting just b/c some people have high rep. I am not concerned, b/c I think someones post needs clarification I will tell them, hell it is language and there are certainly quite a few different out comes for sure.

I think answers get less upvotes than questions since it's easier to tell if a question is good than if an answer is correct.

and being cautious, answers tend to get less upvotes so that we don't say something is correct when it's not

@OK, I can understand that. I could see that a difficult answer could be hard to follow hence the confusion.

んん・・・・？

japanese.stackexchange.com/posts/34576/revisions

> Hard to choose which is best.

が

> It is hard to choose which the best one.

になったじょ

従属節の動詞がなくなったじょ

まあ、腹立つ。。。mainichi.jp/articles/20160526/ddp/012/010/019000c

I'm finally up to 1000 reputation after 4 years

@ogicu8abruok Congrats

thanks!

Did anybody see this edit? Should something be done about it? japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/34412/…

@ogicu8abruok congratulations!

hm

@ogicu8abruok congrats!

In the latest Naruto, 「サスケが感知できねんだ。」　Why is が used instead of を in the case? Will it be wrong if を is used?

IMO you don't really need to pay much attention to upvotes\downvotes. To me actual words mean a lot more, whereas with a silent vote I have no idea what is the reasoning behind it so I don't know how to react to it.

@ogicu8abruok おめでたう ^^

@Maki 「漢字が覚えられない」と「漢字を覚えられない」みたいなものでしょうか

両方いけそうですよね

@broccoliforest 阪急も途中まで地下鉄やったわ！

でね、阪急は地下で電波が立たない

地下鉄はケータイが使えるのに

@kuchitsu 私もねー去年かなー過去回答とか掘り返してDVいっぱいされたりしてある人とずいぶん喧嘩したなー

またそのうちあるかもねーわかんないけどーー

Damn, can't stop reading DV as "domestic violence". :D

:D ですよねー

もちろんDVばっかりしたはるわけじゃないとはわかってるけど

UVもいっぱいしてくれたはるし

たぶん

@ogicu8abruok おめでとう！

long time no see, darius. how's it going?

ぼちぼち

最近ミートアップ来ないけど何で？来ればいいと思います！

you're still going?

ほぼ毎週行くよ

i took a break from studying japanese to focus on my job

that's awesome your speaking must have improved :)

どうかなー（笑）