@snailboat Only one upvote, from me...

That's why it's sometimes better not to make a meta post. Or to formulate it differently: "I'm going to [do what I want to do]. Is there anyone who objects?"

Then you are not bound by everyone's apathy =)

legoっていうタグ・・・？

does English.SE/ELL have a chat?

nvm found them

@DariusJahandarie, re: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/32789/…, I think the key might be that these hard-to-explain 副詞 have to do with amount or degree.

These 副詞 don't appear to modify the noun directly. I don't agree with the sample that snailboat posted, for instance -- 「やや東﹅の﹅方﹅」 is described as 修飾-ing the 体言, but it's not actually directly modifying it, so much as modifying the (here unstated) verb by specifying the degree or amount to which the verb applies to that noun.

They may be directly followed by a noun, but the conditions that these 副詞 place are more on the utterance as a whole.

Take for example: 「主にチョコレートです。」

Out of context, this could look like 主に directly modifying チョコレート.

But in the greater context -- 「毎日寝る前にお菓子を大量に食べてしまいます。主にチョコレートです。」, it becomes clear that the 主に is actually modifying something else within the scope of this context: this is describing a condition of 食べる, not of the チョコレート itself.

@EiríkrÚtlendi Right. But 毎日チョコを食べる could be argued either way, I think. Is it directly modifying the verb, or is it modifying the predicate? I think that's actually not a useful way to think about it due to how syntactic it is. It think it's modifying the event, semantically. Neo-Davidsonian semantics would let you write it as ∃e eat(e) & Agent(e, I) & Theme (e, Chocolate) & everyday(e). There is some event which occurs every day.