Japanese Language

kuchitsu

12:39 AM

Wow, you can also use 僕 when referring to someone else? That's almost like an opposite meaning ("me" vs "you").

Anonymous

12:54 AM

@kuchitsu You mean like when talking to a child?

chocolate

4:18 AM

@snailplane Okay. But that won't be the enough reason for closing. The voters only needed to add that in the comment line. ( I am not closing though. ) — Kentaro Tomono 53 mins ago

もおー

@snailplane Could you not please "modify" the original question even to the levele of your question up completely? To be nice is not necesssary means To help the quesioner from the very start. — Kentaro Tomono 50 mins ago

もおおー

文句ばっかり！

Flaw

4:58 AM

@chocolate 10k おめでとう！

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@chocolate I don't understand what he means in this comment

Anonymous

5:59 AM

@Flaw It is pretty much incomprehensible, isn't it?

Anonymous

That comments section is going to need cleaning up later.

Flaw

I'm confused because your edit wasn't a big change

I think he's a little unhappy about the question receiving close votes when he thinks it should not?

Anonymous

I don't think he really understands how the site works.

Flaw

I left a comment about the close vote system. I hope it helps

This site is by the community, for the community.

If you argue that a question cannot close just because some users say it should be closed. Then a similar argument exists that a question cannot stay open just because some users say it should be open.

Anonymous

I moved the discussion to chat:

Anonymous

6:03 AM

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/39316/…

Flaw

6:15 AM

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Q: The particle は (wa)

I'm studying Japanese with みんなの日本語. In one page there are this two examples: にちよぅびは　なにを　しましたか. どよぅび　なにを　しましたか. Why one of them have the particle は and the other hasn't? It's a mistake or something? Thank you.

particle-は

my eyes aren't playing tricks on me right

the う in the sentence is the small one right

there's something wrong with my browsers font. the う looks like a different font, but it doesn't look small enough to be a small う

Flaw

6:26 AM

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Q: Saying you'll do/have done something for a certain amount of time?

I wasn't sure how to properly word the question, but I'm asking how to make sentences such as: "I have lived in America for 10 years." "I will go to Japan for a month." "I have had this job for a year." "I left for a few minutes." "I will leave in an hour." And so on. How do I structure it?

time

I feel that this isn't exactly a proofreading question. The sentences are incidental, and the intention is not to ask for an ad-hoc check of the sentence or for a particular phrase.

It's asking about the grammar required to express duration.

(It's a general question, as opposed to being a specific checking question about one sentence/phrase)

chocolate

6:44 AM

@Flaw ありがとう ^^

@snailplane おおっ。。 plane になってたのね

気づかんかった！

さっき「蝸牛船さん」と書いてしまったよ

蝸牛飛行船

@Flaw おお・・なるほど・・・(close に投票してしまったよ・・・ゴメン！)

Flaw

It's okay to vote close. The community should decide the questions we want to keep

chocolate

It seems like I cannot undo my close vote...

Flaw

on the other hand I'm surprised that some other questions have received no close votes which I feel are of the proofreading type

especially questions that are titled "Help with this sentence"

Vague question titles are my enemy

Flaw

7:24 AM

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Q: So I am reading through a text and I am not sure if my translation of this sentence is correct

The sentence in question is "困らせちゃだめよ?". I know that 困らせ is simply a causative form of 困る and that ちゃ is a feminine casual ては. I translated the sentence to "So you're not troubled anymore, are you?" I don't know why, but I've got the nagging feeling that the translation is incorrect.

grammar translation

how is this question title not attracting any proofreading close votes

And now for something completely different.

It's hard to see the line between acceptable and unacceptable "how do you say X" questions.

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Q: Rain on your parade

How can I say something like "I hate to rain on your parade, but..." In Japanese? If there is no equivalent then kindly teach me how to say "Sorry to disappoint you, but..." Thanks!!!

expressions set-phrases idioms

this seems idiomatic and it doesn't seem to be a trivial "what's this in Japanese" question

yet it got enough votes to close

while other questions attract no close votes:

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Q: How to say "clean up" (for example a house or a room) in Japanese?

I'm trying to compose the sentence, which starts: パーティーが終{お}わる時{とき}に～.. I want to say "After party is over, it is hard to clean up the house." Can you help me?

translation

Anonymous

7:56 AM

@chocolate Yes! I went back to snailplane :-) But this time I put in a space.

Anonymous

It turns out people were trying to look up "snailboat" and they were finding that gross Urban Dictionary page, so I thought it was time for a change.

Anonymous

And one of my friends told me she liked snailplane better than snailboat :-)

chocolate

8:08 AM

おおーあの urban dic の。。ｗｗ

@Flaw これは、close しなくてもよかった感じがしますね・・

reopen に投票しましたけど。。一応

chocolate

9:12 AM

びびびびっくりした

TNさんが・・・

ログインしてる！

もう死んだかとさえ思ってた・・・

アバターが変わってるから

うわー

なんか怒ってる・・

22時間前・・・？

まあ、生きててよかったやん・・

入院してるか、お亡くなりになってるかのどっちかやと思てたし・・

＠l'électeur　お帰り！

kuchitsu

10:44 AM

Ouch that urbandictionary page. :D Just a coincidence I assume?

Anonymous

Someone should destroy that urban dictionary page :-( :-( :-(

Anonymous

This is my official explanation for my name:

Anonymous

in English Language & Usage, 16 hours ago, by snail plane

Planes are slightly faster than snails, so sometimes snails like to use them to move around.

kuchitsu

Mine comes from misheard lyrics. :\ j-lyric.net/artist/a001c0c/l005c86.html I only recently realized that it's actually くちづけてる.

chocolate

5:33 PM

Planes are slightly faster than snails　。。。ふふ

おお、くちづ　→くちつ

へー

kuchitsu

6:44 PM

Interesting word: 云々 I didn't know that vowels can also change in such cases.

Anonymous

They can't anymore, but they could many centuries ago. There's a process called 連声（れんじょう）, and it's responsible for certain other compounds like 天皇（てんのう） that you might already know.

Anonymous

Wikipedia article on 連声（れんじょう）

kuchitsu

Oh, never noticed that with 天皇 before.

Anonymous

It's probably because when you're learning more basic words like that one, you aren't as aware of how they're made up, so you don't notice anything weird.

Anonymous

I think it's the same reason you might not realize 時計（とけい） is a special reading :-) At least, in my case, I didn't realize either of those things at first.

kuchitsu

6:48 PM

I've heard about 時計 somewhere but yeah, didn't notice it by myself. :)

Anonymous

Oh, 反応 is a good example of a common word with 連声 :-)

kuchitsu

Oh indeed.

Anonymous

kosoado

Anonymous

We could rename this to こそあど.

Anonymous

This is just me, but if I actually wanted to talk about こそあど in Latin letters, I think I'd type ko–so–a–do.

kuchitsu

7:00 PM

Apparently there is also こそアド. :)

Anonymous

Ooh, I didn't know that.

Anonymous

zokugo-dict.com/10ko/koso-ad.htm

strawberry jam

I see that during my absence you have evolved from a boat to a plane. Congratulations :-)

Anonymous

Thank you! :-)

Anonymous

7:27 PM

It's interesting that people talk about こそあど all the time, but not much about h–th–wh. I suppose it's because the English paradigm has fallen apart and is considerably less systematic?

Anonymous

The Japanese is irregular too, though.

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