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12:09 AM

「日本人は子供の時、箸の使い方が悪いと親に叩かれます」I understand the complete meaning of this sentence, but I am having a bit of hard time deciding what と means here, I am thinking it means "If" but not entirely sure

broken headphones

12:25 AM

@FelipeOliveira usually "if" or "when"

in this sentence alone you can't exclude quotative と in theory, though

Q: How to say "in frames of~"?

Many times I have interchanged the English phrase "in frames of" into Japanese "~の一環｛いっかん}として" or "~の一環で". Although not so long ago I have noticed, that it is not as natural expression in Japanese... could you please tell some better way, in which I should express this English phrase? I will also...

"in frames of"で検索するとWordReferenceのスレとか用例らしきものがわりといっぱい出てくるんですが、地域方言か何か？

Felipe Oliveira

I was just saying how it was hard for me to eat rice with "hashi", then he told me that, I didn't know that と could mean "when" as well, probably just a different interpretation of the "if" と、right?

broken headphones

@FelipeOliveira yes that's mostly what I mean, but note that と also translate some non-conditional "when"

or "as soon as"?

彼は箸を置くと部屋に帰っていった。

私が彼女を見ると、英語の教科書を読んでいた。

Felipe Oliveira

The second sentence is very clear, but the first is a bit counfusing for me.

Does it mean "He put the hashi as soon as he went back to the room" or "He went back to the room as soon as he put the hashi"

broken headphones

12:40 AM

@FelipeOliveira oh :) the latter

Felipe Oliveira

And it should be "he put the hashi down"?　とにかく、ありがとうございます

I mean "He went back to the room as soon as he put the HASHI DOWN"

broken headphones

well, usually yes but not necessary

or maybe you can translate it as "set" or "lay" or "place" etc according to the situation

Felipe Oliveira

Ok, thanks a lot for the help :)

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Chocolate

3:56 AM

@FelipeOliveira おおっ

So it's saying "Human are NOT born equal"

The sentence continues to the next bubble...

これが4歳で知った真実だ。

"Human are not born equal -- this is the fact that I learned at the age of 4."

うわ

Q: Is アリ some type of slang?

This is a line from a sports manga (soccer), after a rather unusual shoot, but I can't seem to make sense of it: そんなのアリかよ!? I have no idea what the "ari" in here refers to? Is this some slang? Some short form of an idiom? It certainly doesn't seem to be related to any ant... Thanks in advance!!

slang idioms

アクセプトが変更されてる

２７対１で・・

そんなのアリ？

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broken headphones

9:36 AM

なんでや！（これは33-4になるまでvoteするしかない）

33-4 dic.nicovideo.jp/a/…

ところで、「全然違う」というと wrong の「違う」に聞こえますが、「全く違う」というと different の「違う」に聞こえるような気が…しませんか？

sun-solar-arrow

10:13 AM

マイナス票がなくなってる

sun-solar-arrow

10:51 AM

にしてもこれ、機械翻訳感

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.ja

一部ね

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Stack Exchange

6:38 PM

Q: is this question off-topic? (How old are japaneses when they finish learning kanjis in school?)

I wanted to ask this question in the board, though I'm not sure if it's off-topic or not. How old are japaneses when they finish learning kanjis in school?