@Aerovistae Japan has its own official set of simplifications, along with a history of unofficial simplifications. There's a little bit of overlap with Simplified Chinese, but it's more like Traditional. In any case, you'll need to consider kanji separately. There are also made-in-Japan letters, called 国字 such as 辻 or 峠. (I think some of these were borrowed back into Chinese.)

The Japanese writing system is now very old and its use of kanji differs from how hanzi are used in Chinese in a number of ways

Too numerous to list

Welcome back!

Yay!

> visited 726 days, 717 consecutive

I've never managed to get the 100 days straight badge on ELL though

That's the other site I use sometimes

Yay!

One of the pictures has Japanese-English dictionaries! :-)

It depends on how old and hungry the snail is. But I have more than one snail :-)

When a snail is, say, six weeks old, they might be able to eat that whole leaf in a few days

Not many. They're all Helix aspersa

The snail in my avatar is Bean

This snail is Moon

Uh-huh :-) A slice of banana

Their shells look different--the patterns and the colors--and the color of the foot looks different too

And they grow to slightly different sizes

They probably all look the same if you're not used to seeing them every day, but if you get used to having pet snails they all look different :-)

See you!

I thought we had a question about the origin of 助動詞「ない」 but I can't find it

日本文法大辞典 says: 助動詞「ない」の語源には諸説がある。①打消「ぬ」を形容詞化したもの、②形容詞「なし」の転訛、③『万葉集』東国方言の「なふ」の変化したもの、④以上の諸要素が影響混‌​合して生じたもの、などがそれである。

@3to5businessdays Do you know what the old name of Tokyo is?

Hehe :-)

@3to5businessdays Yes, when you post a link to an answer or comment, it quotes it automatically in here

Sorry if it was unclear!

I kind of miss Yahoo! Messenger

I only know いろは up to いろはにほへと

It does sound like that, but they also ask what order children are generally taught

And that's answerable