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ssb
1:42 AM
Well, are you excluding alternate phrasings like がある?
Depends on the sentence, I guess.
 
Anonymous
1:56 AM
Sounds like the sort of thing Lang-8 could be helpful for
 
2:24 AM
I can think of ways to say what I want to say naturally, I'm just not sure if this feels weird to me because it's wrong or because I'm wrong.
When I was starting out I always had issues with relative clauses that would have had a dangling preposition in English not having anything in Japanese, and similarly with clefting. I feel like this might just be that issue cropping up again, but am not sure.
(In case it helps, an example: 事務所にいる時、仕事に夢中だ。 ⇒ 仕事に夢中であるのは事務所にいる時だけだ。)
 
ssb
Maybe because you would usually use 夢中になっている?
.. I think
 
 
13 hours later…
3:37 PM
any one on the board?
@Xeo can you help me with something
 
Xeo
@Chris Hm?
Maybe
 
Anonymous
Yes, people are here
 
Xeo
Nono. Virtual bits are here!
 

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