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hippietrail
hippietrail
12:02 AM
ohayo gozaimasu
 
poke
poke
konbanha..
(2am here)
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
i think we have no kyujitai v shinjitai questions yet - anyone up to the challenge?
(i sense some of you are not in japan)
 
poke
poke
a) what is kyujitai, b) what is shinjitai and c) yes, I’m not really in Japan..
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
shinjitai is the simplified kanji from the, i think, 1947 reform. kyujitai refers to the former forms of the kanji which generally are identical to traditional chinese
(in form if not in style)
 
poke
poke
uhuh, sounds confusing
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
12:12 AM
it gets worse because some kanji stopped being used altogether with the same reform and were often replaced with similar-looking kanji!
i'm fortunate that i'm actually in japan, unfortunate that i don't speak more than a splash of the lingo
 
poke
poke
:D
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
12:28 AM
ooh just thought of a great meta question!
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
みなさん、こんばんは
I probably said that wrong. |:
 
poke
poke
Looks fine to me :)
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
俺も
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
I can't read kanji. ):
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
ore-mo
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
12:34 AM
It's been so long, I'd need a few run-throughs before I could even recognize all the kana again.
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
that will suffice as my reply to both comments actually (-:
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
I've forgotten 99% of what I learned. ):
 
poke
poke
:/
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
Ah, and now I know what 俺も means! Though I'll never be able to say it without pasting what I just copied. q:
Actually that isn't true. If I can remember oremo, I can let the ime choose the kanji. Duh.
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
not something for ladies to say in any case d-;
 
Rebecca Chernoff
Rebecca Chernoff
12:41 AM
o:
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
the ore kanji is kinda odd and devilish looking and makes a pair with the boku kanji: 僕
 
poke
poke
You should use 私 (あたし)
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
is there a kanji for feminine pronoun kimi?
 
poke
poke
12:56 AM
お休みなさい!
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
i consider this a hard question: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/531/…
hmm do i have to enter it along for it to expand?
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Q: On the replacing of kanji obsoleted in the 1946 reforms with similar-looking kanji.

hippietrailThis is my understanding but please correct me if some of my details are wrong: In 1946 the Japanese language underwent a reform and standardization process A subset of kanji (about 1850) were made official and others more or less obsoleted A smaller subset of kanji were simplified, the new for...

kanji spelling language-reform
 
 
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Tsuyoshi Ito
Tsuyoshi Ito
3:35 AM
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Q: The differences and similarities between ーたら and ーば

language hackerThere are different ways to say "if" in Japanese. I want to concentrate on these two verb endings which mean "if": たら and ば. What exactly are the similarities and differences between these two? I have heard that in some situations, you should be careful to use one and not the other. Which situati...

verbs conjugations
A silly remark: this question reminds me of a specific kind of king crab and makes me hungry.
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
3:59 AM
tabemasen ka?
 
 
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Ali
Ali
9:40 AM
Since when was kimi feminine?
 
hippietrail
hippietrail
sorry got it confused with atashi
 
Ali
Ali
10:00 AM
ah right
I've heard some fairly burly burlymen use 'kimi' to refer to other burly mcburlmeisters so I was confused.
@RebeccaChernoff on why you shouldn't use 俺: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/74/…
 

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