Japanese Language

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Anonymous

3:28 AM

I guess 「＜名詞句A>など＜名詞句B>」 means 「＜名詞句B＞ such as <名詞句A＞」

Anonymous

The Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar says "A particle normally follows nado"

Anonymous

It doesn't explain what happens when a noun (phrase) follows など

Anonymous

3:47 AM

I posted a question about it!

Anonymous

4:58 AM

Hmm. Neither answer agreed with my conclusion... :-)

Anonymous

Crud.

ssb

5:47 AM

If it's any consolation I'm not 100% sure of the correctness of my answer

Anonymous

6:29 AM

Well, we can wait to see how people vote or comment! :-)

Seiya

6:50 AM

Theseus was an enemy that ended the story alive. So I think that you are right, the interviewer is asking about the wellbeing of that character.
I have another doubt, I hope don't bother you. I can't find the sense to these two questions.

リンかけのパンチで一番威力のあるのは何ですか？
「大声を出す。威力はあんまし変わらないのに大声を出した方…誰だ、こんな事言い出したのは。」

最初はぱふかな。じゃ、より大声で叫んだ方が？
「勝つんじゃない？少年ジェットって昔の番組知ってる？ミラクルボイスってのがあったんだ。あれ大声出した方が勝ちなの。」

リンかけ is Ring ni Kakero (the manga), 少年ジェット (Shônen Jetto) is an old tv program.

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Chocolate

10:20 AM

@Seiya The interviewer said パンチ. So, is the manga about boxing?

Yes, probably it is, cos it's "リング"にかけろ. I'll just google it now though.

Andrew Grimm

10:53 AM

@Chocolate こんばんは/こんにちは/おはようございます

Andrew Grimm

11:11 AM

I was googling about お花代, and one of the hits I got on google images was from tenchuu37.jugem.jp/?eid=1120 . At first I thought someone was pinning American banknotes on the kimono, which kind of horrified me. Then I realized that it's probably Japanese currency.

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Chocolate

12:48 PM

@AndrewGrimm Ohhh yesss it's also called お花代...

ｗｗｗ

If you're supposed to had them お花代(=tip、「チップ」みたいなものかなと思います)

たぶん、小さな封筒(small envelops)に入れると思います。

ホントにお花代が必要かどうか、聞いてみないと分からないかも…って思ってます。

Now I'm stepping out, so またあとで!

ノシ

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djahandarie

6:37 PM

Hmm, does anyone know the whole deal with the old form of う verbs, like 使ふ, etc.?

Eventually, the writing changed from [ha, hi, fu, he, ho] to [wa, i, u, e, o]

But what about the pronunciation?

Was the pronunciation ever actually [ha, hi, fu, he, ho]? Did it change to [wa, wi, wu, we, wo] and then [wa, i, u, e, o], or some other changes?

Anonymous

What symbols are you using between []? They don't look like IPA

djahandarie

They aren't, that's just an array

Sorry for sloppy notation

Apparently I can't edit my old message for some reason.

Anyways, I meant [は,ひ,ふ,へ,ほ] => [わ,い,う,え,お] was the change in writing

Anonymous

Have you read this answer?

Anonymous

A: Why is は pronounced as わ when used as a topic particle?

In Old Japanese (probably before 800 BC), the pronunciation of 「は」 (and indeed the entire ハ行) was PA, but it later changed to FA (more accurately, [ɸa], with a bilabial fricative), and this was the common pronunciation at least up to the 16th century (we know this since early Portuguese translite...

djahandarie

I'm trying to figure out what the pronuications were though

Ahhhh

I have! But I forgot about it

That does have what I'm looking for

Anonymous

6:44 PM

Also

Anonymous

A: Why are the particles "は" (ha⇒wa), "へ" (he⇒e), and "を" (wo⇒o) not spelled phonetically?

I'll give you the same one I gave to the other question: Yes, the sounds of these words has changed since their spelling was set down. In general, no matter the language, whenever you see a discrepancy between spelling and pronunciation that is not entirely regular, this is the result of sound ch...

djahandarie

Yeah, this is totally what I need.

Boaz is awesome.

Anonymous

He is :-)

djahandarie

7:37 PM

Do you know of any good resources for typesetting papers in Japanese? Font, font size, margins, line spacing, how to properly break lines, etc...

djahandarie

8:06 PM

Posted up my awful paper on lang-8

I hope someone is kind enough to correct some of it

Anonymous

9:03 PM

@djahandarie I don't believe there was ever a wu sound in Japanese

Anonymous

Other than underlyingly, I mean

Anonymous

A: When did the "wu" character drop out of use?

While the ゐ and ゑ characters were indeed eliminated from common use, there never was a WU character, at least not officially. The wikipedia page linked by Amanda mentions attempts to create a proper equivalent to the other わ行 letters just for the sake of completeness, but this letter (which looke...

Anonymous

From Boaz's answer linked above: "but there has never been any /wu/ sound (as well as any /yi/ sound) in Japanese, and thus it wasn't given any letter."

Anonymous

Can you use 導出 for "derivation" in the linguistics sense? I thought that was 生成, but I might be misunderstanding

Chocolate

10:38 PM

「子音対」は、「しいんたい」？「しいんつい」？

アカン。。。眠い

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djahandarie

10:53 PM

Thanks a bunch @Chocolate!

I actually don't know how to pronounce it haha, I saw it in another paper.

@snailboat Interesting...