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Jirei

13:40

Interesting

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jukbot

15:13

Q: Relative clauses types and confusion

I was reading Japanese:Revised edition by Shoichi Iwasaki And he talks about 4 types of relative clauses. A)“Cased Head” Type (Relative Clause): the head noun bears some case relation to the predicate in the modifying clause 犬を飼っている木村さん。 B)“Adverbial Head” Type: the head noun bear...

@naruto See my comment on this question. Unfortunately, the OP misrepresented the author and has given you the wrong idea. I think you may want to rectify some of your answers.

Darius Jahandarie

15:51

I always feel so weird when people refer to me as “Darius Jahandarie” in full. I know it’s my display name but it feels so distant. 😅

JACK

you can change it

Darius Jahandarie

I mean, I like it as my display name, I just don’t understand why people don’t shorten it to “Darius” like you would in real life lol

JACK

true

your japanese is very good

did you see felipe?

Darius Jahandarie

In Japan? Not yet, I’m still in Boston until this weekend.

JACK

oh i see

ratchet freak

16:45

@DariusJahandarie tab completion is so handy for getting someone's full name for a @ mention

ajsmart

I suspect that's one of the main culprits

Igor Skochinsky

17:39

@ratchetfreak there is also an arrow icon at the end of each line in chat if you want to reply to something specific; it adds the username automatically

JACK

wow

this site is cool

Darius Jahandarie

@ratchetfreak Oh, actually the “@“ form feels fine (it feels more like a reference to a username).

japanese.stackexchange.com/search?q=Darius+Jahandarie lol

Igor Skochinsky

you never know if you offend someone by using only half of their name... better play it safe

Darius Jahandarie

Good point Igor Skochinsky

ｼｼｼ

Igor Skochinsky

JACK

17:53

gotta be careful here

Anonymous

18:49

@IgorSkochinsky My friends use 62.5% of my name.

Igor Skochinsky

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Darius Jahandarie

20:54

@By137 Your recent Q/A reminds me of mine where I made almost exactly the same mistake lol japanese.stackexchange.com/a/13973/3097

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