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Darius Jahandarie

12:15 AM

Yeay, hats!

But aww, they don't show in chat.

Darius Jahandarie

12:25 AM

Wow, some of these hats are hard to win.

At least on JLSE.

Anonymous

12:40 AM

Apparently there's a hat for moderators, but I like Old Hat better

Darius Jahandarie

1:21 AM

I got to cheat and use my Old Hat from another site on here, apparently.

Anonymous

Me, too!

Anonymous

3:29 AM

I don't know what rule you mean about only は or も coming between で＋ある

Darius Jahandarie

I mean, unless you're using ある entirely differently than its copula usage, only は and も can show up there (normally), AFAIK.

Err, well, any 係助詞 is what I actually mean, if that's what you're asking about

Like, normally you would read そして全くその通りで私はあったのだ。 as "And that's exactly how it was, and I was there." or something like that. Normally the copula doesn't get spliced by something by a non-particle

ogicu8abruok

3:59 AM

you just blew my mind with that sentence

Darius Jahandarie

Heh

ogicu8abruok

one time i was reading and i found a sentence that blew my mind, it was something like それを知ったのは本を読んでだった

i literally had to stop reading and walk around

1 hour later…

ちょこれーと

5:08 AM

いっぱいコメントが消えてる・・

:1265819 Oh.. but I think it's a weird name

I just knew that 他人丼 is only in Kansai

So probably TokyoNagoya doesn't know what's in 他人丼

親子丼＝parent and child's bowl?

他人丼=strange people's bowl

きつねうどん=fox wheat noodles

たぬきうどん=raccoon wheat noodles

なんちゃって！

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Tokyo Nagoya

7:38 AM

@ちょこれーと豚肉と玉子だったかな？？東京の蕎麦屋でたまに他人丼を出してるところがあるんだけど、注文したことがないんですよ。

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ちょこれーと

8:47 AM

@gibbon I failed to tag you...

@TokyoNagoya 正解です～多分

私も食べたことないです←っておい

Andrew Grimm

9:34 AM

What's a better word than "beautiful" to describe this video about the devastation caused by 3/11? I chose "tasteful" and "moving", but any suggestions? youtube.com/watch?v=L75hoO-v9hc&feature=youtu.be

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Grace

2:19 PM

Maybe "touching" or "heartfelt"?

Oh wow. Indeed that was truly heartbreaking... the most pitiful part is that I don't even remember seeing that on the news in my country. That video was so emotional.

gibbon

What country would that be?

Grace

Australia

It probably would have been broadcast, but no doubt it wasn't a feature story.

そういえば、質問があります・・・

多分易しい質問だけど、私はまだ下手でしょう。大丈夫かな〜

「PlaceにThingがありますか？」と「ThingがPlaceにありますか？」、どちらはいいですか？例えば:「ロンドンに山がありますか？」と「山がロンドンに‌ありますか？」。ありがとう(・ω・)ノ

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Darius Jahandarie

6:59 PM

@Grace I think that'd be a fine question to ask on the site, but my feeling is that it depends on what you're trying to ask: "Is there a Thing at Place?" vs "Is Thing at Place?"

E.g., "Are there students at school?" (a weird question) vs "Are the students at school?" (as opposed to on the field trip, or whatever)

Wow, just reread those two sentences and that's not very clear. I wonder if there's a better way to explain it.

"Are there mountains in London?" "Is the mountain in London?"

Not sure of a way to explain it aside from examples.

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Anonymous

9:02 PM

@Grace Yeah, I think you could ask that on Japanese Language.SE :-)

gibbon

9:30 PM

Ok, at first sight I can't tell anyone apart with this hat being used so much.

Anonymous