Japanese Language

12:49 AM

@Earthliŋ the fish is never prepared alive with rare cases when that's the point to see the fish wiggling from dropping a soy sauce onto it but even then it is not really alive anymore, just reflexes triggered by salt.

simply because you don't get alive fish that often. Firshermen go to the sea early, fish and dump them into the icebox which is prepared in advance inside the boat. The fish is dead by the moment it gets there. Sometimes they make the hole at the bottom of its head to let blood out which is necessary to keep the fish fresh.

Earthliŋ

1:05 AM

@Rilakkuma Thank you for the explanation =)

Rilakkuma

@Earthliŋ also many good fishes such as 金目鯛 are deep sea dwellers and they get stoned when taken outside by the difference in pressure. These fishes are impossible to get very alive at all :)

not sure about fugu because many fugu restaurants keep them in the aquariums just inside the restaurant

however I guess the reason for that are low sales of fugu so you just can't get enough fugu in advance and keep it fresh enough

fugu themselves are not expensive, most fisherman threat them like a trash, but the preparing makes them expensive, so probably it is not much of investment to get few fugus in advance for a restaurant and keep them alive as long as possible.

Earthliŋ

1:41 AM

I see. I guess there are still more fugu caught than people ready to prepare & eat them...

Anonymous

4:28 AM

Darius Jahandarie

Hahaha.

Anonymous

9:07 AM

Grammar Monster :-(

Choko

文法妖怪

文法怪獣

Anonymous

Hee

Choko

monster は「怪物」のほうが良いかも

Anonymous

@Choko What do you think of the idea that を is omitted in ～～か知らない?

Anonymous

> どこにあるか、知らない

Anonymous

9:14 AM

> どこにあるかを知らない

Choko

おおお～

そうなるのかな？

Anonymous

I read that somewhere a few weeks ago, but now I can't figure out where I read it...

Choko

「どこにあるかを知らない」って意味だろうけど、

まあ、ふつうは

「どこにあるかしらない」っていうかな

硬い言い方だと、「～～がどこにあるかを、彼女はまだ、知る由もなかった」

とかありそうだし

Anonymous

What I wrote down in my notes is that Masuoka said を is "usually omitted"

Choko

そうだね～ふつうはいらないね

会話では特に

「～ついて、何か知りませんか」はいいけど、「～について、何かを知りませんか」はへんですね

「何かを知ってる」はいいのに、質問にしたらだめなんだ・・なんでだろう

つーか、

疑問詞+動詞+か+しらない

の形だった

Anonymous

9:29 AM

3to5businessdays found an old answer I wrote about ～か知らない and I'm not very happy with my answer, so I just rewrote it:

Anonymous

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A: Usage of か after a clause?

I think this is more or less the same か used to form regular questions. But there are a couple differences when you use か to form an embedded question: In an embedded question, it's okay to have だ before か: 1.　[　誰だか　]　分からない　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　←　　okay In an embedded question, か generally can...

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