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chocolate

2:46 AM

@優しいエイリアン人の買い物した食品も盗む人いるんだ。。油断できないわね・・

私もいつもバイクに荷物置きっぱなしにしてるけど

@kuchitsu ほんとだｗ　１０日遅い

12 hours later…

優しいエイリアン

2:45 PM

@chocolate: What is ぼやき ?

「人類の宇宙にかける夢は、とどまるところを知らない。その宇宙で、今、こんなぼやきが交わされているかもしれない。」という文はどんな意味でしょうか。

WeirdlyCheezy

3:14 PM

ぼやきとは、ぼやくから発生されたのです。http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/205300/meaning/m0u/%E3%81%BC%E3%82%84%E3%81%8F/

場合によってすこし文句と似ているかもしれません

2 hours later…

Flaw

5:06 PM

Is polite vs. non-polite(plain) form the same as formal vs. informal ?

Anonymous

6:02 PM

@Flaw No

Anonymous

「だ」 is informal, 「である」 is formal

Anonymous

「だ」 is plain,「です」 is polite

Flaw

であります ?

Anonymous

Although である is clearly more formal than だ, it's not marked for politeness.

Anonymous

@Flaw です can be thought of as the short form of であります.

Anonymous

7:54 PM

Q: Help with identification and trasnslation

-I only started working on Japanese last night.- I have a rather low resolution image taken from a computer game. I have managed to use handwriting detection tools to transcribe the kanji/kana to text, after using a few websites it was clear that the translations weren't very good, and only serv...

Anonymous

This question is a bit of a doozy.

Anonymous

Not sure what to do . . .

Anonymous

Ah, Earthling to the rescue! :-)

Anonymous

We don't do proofreading/transcription/translation, but your transcription seems to be correct. For your translation, it would be better if you asked a more precise question. Give your translation and ask about a particular issue that is troubling you. You can split the question into several. — Earthliŋ ♦ 49 secs ago