@broccoliforest 京都の個人タクシーってさ、緑色やで～

薄い緑。

@Choko どの場面「グリーン」、どの場面「緑」か？

@DariusJahandarie Your Japanese looks fine

(to be honest... your comment there is much easier to read than the other poster's)

@virmaior う～ん、だいたいおなじ？たぶん・・

現代は人による？

ボードゲームの人は普通に「グリーン」、「ブルー」など言いているで、気になった。

そ～ね～、そのほうが、新しくってかっこいいかな？

なるほど。

洋服を買いにいったら、「青」とか「緑」じゃなくて、「グリーン」「ブルー」って書いてあるよね

わかるら

わかるら

京都の個人タクシーってこんなん

白タクはこれ：

白くな～い

って、

別にいいよね・・

@Choko まさか個人タクシーが白いのは東京だけだったなんて…

detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1027838425

白タクはナンバープレートが白い（=営業用ではない（=違法操業））ってことですよね

meanwhile, 白バイ

means police motorcycles

@Choko Really?! Thanks!

@broccoliforest Your recent answers have been great as usual!

@Choko 私には「ペンを３本買いました。」のほうが「ペン３本を買いました。」より自然に聞こえると思う。

どっちもいいけど。

「鍋に水を１リットル入れる。」の場合は、「鍋に水１リットルを入れる。」と全く同じに聞こえる。

「ペン３本」は、３本のペンを一つのものとして表現すると。

多分気のせいだろうな。

@DariusJahandarie I have to agree with Choko-san, for sure...

@DariusJahandarie how flattering! there are still many questions beyond my ability though...

@DariusJahandarie you have an excellent intuition

こんいちは

I'm reading a very simple text and it has something I'm not sure I'm understanding well. It's a description of somebody's room, and it says: つくえが　三つあります, 　いすが　六つあります, ベッドが　四つあります

Am I right to assume it's 3 desks, 6 chairs and 4 beds?

Just the counter, -つ, didnt know it

It can be used for anything?

オ－ケ－、ありがとう　：）

Is it like the counter people resort to when they don't know the counter for a specific type of object?

Is there any difference between saying お腹がすいた　and　お腹がすいている?

Talking about now, as in I'm hungry (right now)

There is. Certainly a difference when you consider how they work into larger sentences, but even on their own, I'd say there is a difference in nuance.

おなかがすいた seems more "in the moment" or immediate, since you're talking about a change that just happened.

おなかがすいている seems more like a neutral description of the state.

Oh, I see you asked on the main site.

I'll let one of the native speakers answer I think. I don't think I have any business answering nuance questions just based on my intuition.

Your latest answer is great. :)

Have you thought about glossing his provided sentence with the different interpretations at the end of your explanation?

By the way, I've been thinking again about how to make our site more approachable to native speakers. I'm sure there are many who have seen it thanks to the Japanese StackOverflow, and perhaps many who were even interested in helping.

I think I might try to start translating questions I find interesting into Japanese.

(I really hope someone comes and edits my bad translations.)

At the moment, if the answerer's English is not good, it mostly seems like their answers either get ignored or downvoted into the ground.

Having the questions in Japanese will at least help with comprehension, and perhaps make it look more acceptable to post answers in Japanese too (with a translation happening on that end as well if there are enough willing helpers, which I get the feeling there would be).

Not in detail. I've seen that many of the questions and answers are in French, at least, but that's about it.

Nice.

I kind of wish we could manually line break in titles.

For at least some of the passerby Japanese NS who contribute, one problem is they often fail to understand the question and thereby supply incorrect answers or merely provide links to either information that is completely in Japanese or to sites with correct Japanese but incorrect English ... and they tend to ignore comments (or maybe it's that my comments on their answers aren't fluent enough?)

Indeed. I just wrote a meta post on it: meta.japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/1318/…