Where was that data that showed the growth trends of the site?

was that moderator only?

/me contemplates making a dashboard of Japanese.SE stats

I doubt I will though, I don't think I care that much. :P

Especially since T-SQL is a rather irritating dialect of SQL to work in.

@DariusJahandarie we used to have one...

I don't think it's the japanese that's confusing in this question

Basically, the existence of things like 'writing lab', 'math lab', and 'theater lab' are a bit unusual to a native English speaker who doesn't live at a college.

Personally... 'math lab' sounds normal, but 'math laboratory' actually sounds... wrong

Kenzo's answer on japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9580/where-does-えっと-come-from is very interesting. Sad it is down voted.

Could be nice if he finds some references.

I'm pretty sure the downvotes are fresh

my answer just got a downvote

Though looking back at what I wrote in 2012 I don't think it's that great..

I get down votes all the time, perhaps this is the "organic" way things are done at SE.

Well the question itself just got bumped by the SE algorithms because it's old and has no accepted answer

Looks like that answer has 2 downvotes, though

I'd like to see a source for it too

interestingly he says ゆないと belongs to Edo period while it is actually modern Edo/Yamate dialect feature and is very common

つっないと as well

Did we decide for sure that technology questions are for meta?

A similar question before was closed:

@ssb They're not for the main site, that much was decided. As for whether they belong on meta or not, it's a bit up in the air

My general guideline has been, if it's a well-formed question that involves some complication of the language (ie, is not more likely to get an answer on SU), I tend not to close it.

Most of these questions have not been very well formed. This most recent one would probably be better on SU.

> 「手紙」, in Chinese, means "toilet paper"

TIL

Yet another "wa" versus "ga" question. Sorry everyone!

Oh cool, there's a tag for wa versus ga! :)

Before tonight, I thought that "ga" was always used when asking if something did or did not exist. I learnt otherwise from lang-8.com/424295/journals/… , but wanted to confirm it.

There's A Tag For That(tm)