Japanese Language

virmaior

2:09 AM

便邪民・根単野風 ?

Choko

7:46 AM

べんじゃみんねたにやふ

出井人・脚瓜

馬楽・小浜　←これは簡単すぎる

針・歩田！

ハリーポッター

Choko

9:57 AM

@DariusJahandarie ありがとうございます！

「勉強をすればするほど、頭がよくなるよ。 (The more you study, the more you will become smarter.)」←これは、

Tae Kim のサイトからの引用らしいので、そのままにしました

あと、英語は直せません。

Flaw

10:51 AM

@Choko 勉強をすればするほど、頭が痛くなる

Daniel

3:37 PM

would　タクシーの全部が白いです sound natural?

to say: all the taxis are white

Anonymous

4:04 PM

@Xeo Like in our earlier discussion, I don't think it actually means "Yatterman Night" literally

Anonymous

I think you have to give people translating titles some latitude, though :-)

Xeo

Japanese is a bully. :< It's mean to me.

@Daniel To me, as a (low-level) Japanese learner, that sounds more like "The whole taxi (as in, this one specific instance of a taxi) is white".

But what do I know! :P

I wanna say that it should be 「全部のタクシーが白い。」, but I can't give a reason, other than some probably-wrong intuiton.

Maybe you could formulate it as 「タクシーはしろい。」 - "As for taxis, they're white." Doesn't quite carry the same meaning, though.

Gotta say, I feel really insecure about anything I say about Japanese. Gotta learn more~

virmaior

I think I'd prefer 全てのタクシーが白い。

Xeo

Oh right, there was also that word.

Anonymous

@Xeo Don't worry too much :-) You have to make some mistakes in order to learn! It's okay! :-)

virmaior

4:14 PM

I make a fool of myself every day here

But there's no way to learn without making mistakes

or at least I haven't found a more efficient route than living with making mistakes

Xeo

Right. It's just that I wanna comment on something, but I kinda wanna know beforehand if I'm correct.

As in, I don't want to give incorrect information to other people.

Anonymous

When I signed up for Japanese.SE, I figured I would just ask questions and not post answers

virmaior

well i sometimes try to look to see if I can find natural examples of what i'm trying to say

Xeo

Guess I'll just hope that my mistakes get noticed here in chat. :)

virmaior

the other idea I had than すべて was 全台 but I'm not seeing that used too much for taxis

Choko

4:16 PM

@Xeo おｈそｒｒｙ

(oh sorry)

virmaior

though I'm seeing it used very frequently for 台湾 and slot machines

Anonymous

Hehe, I like the ｋ in 日本語でおｋ

Choko

"To upload" = うｐ

頭の中で「ウピー」って読んでしまう

Anonymous

Whenever I see うｐ I hear English "up" in my head

Choko

おおお～そおなんだ～

Anonymous

4:21 PM

I used to always hear English numbers in my head when I saw, like

Anonymous

I'd see １９７５年 and think "nineteen seventy-five nen"

Anonymous

But I'm getting better about that :-)

Choko

そうそう、数字～

Anonymous

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Q: The various ways of saying "all"

While trying to write a plugin to (unofficially fan-)translate this website to Japanese, I've been noticing that "all" has multiple different translations. What exactly is the difference between 全部（の）, すべて（の）, あらゆる and 全体（の）? These are the translations I've currently come up with, but I don't ...