@jkerian Because the more interesting and useful types get bubbled up to the top

@Troyen On resources...? why?

@AndrewGrimm You may be right on the space - it was long time ago but I am sure bin meant son of (like mac) and pretty sure the family name came first. (This chat began on the point that use of first/last names is confusing after all)

Outstanding Bounty for question: "The difference between “follow” using についていく、「あと？」をつける、「あと？」をついていく". I need to award this but although I have two very extensive answers, the q is too difficult for me choose (and it was an interactive discussion). The fairest way to allow the final award is ask others more expert than me to vote on the answer they think most useful for future use. If you have a moment today please take a look.

Evening all

I try not to ask questions on the main site about obscure grammar patterns my workbook tells me that are important, because I'd be asking a question every 10 minutes, but I'm making an exception

@silvermaple what workbook are you using?

日本語能力試験徹底トレーニングN1文法

@jkerian Well, some types of resources are more useful than others. Kind of like how on some FAQs, the more frequent questions are listed first.

What words, if any, are used for dolphin meat? Curiosity piqued by a recent Skeptics stack exchange question.

@jkerian I guess you can treat it like you treat votes on meta. "This was useful" or "this was not useful" (though I don't really see downvoting on resource questions)

@Troyen strictly speaking... it is on meta

but yeah... I sorta get the upvotes/downvotes on the rules FAQ posts... but the resources one always kinda confused me

こんにちは　９月からイギリスに行きます I'm going to fly to England on Sep 1

ちょっと忙しくなるのであまりStackexchangeに来られないと思います　I'll be a bit busy so maybe I can't find time to visit this site

みんな元気でね・・・(;_;)

(また来ます^^)

@Chocolate 行ってらっしゃ～い

sawa has just joined skeptics stack exchange. If I played a role in that, that's be the second site I played a role in (the other being travel stack exchange)

That'd

Sawa said the usual "you ask too many questions about sex" with regards to skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/10625/… . I wish he hadn't.

By that logic, I guess a disproportionate number of my recent tweets have been about sex: twitter.com/andrewjgrimm

And maybe it is a disproportionate number of tweets. I think I'm a bit angry about what some people have said lately.

Enough about that. I don't want to be starting a really big politics thread here, I just don't want to be labelled a creep.

@AndrewGrimm About a certain prince or a certain politician?

@silvermaple Neither. About a certain activist.

Ohhh

Sorry, I have to go now. It's very late for a weeknight.

heh... someone's going to flip when they see the dolphin meat question

lol I already commented on it

I was going to ask him about it in chat, but he logged out just as I came in so I had to make it a comment

@ento: Ento!

@jkerian きゃっ

久しぶりです

@ento はじめまして

@phoenixheart6 はじめまして!

お久しぶりです > jkerian

@ento I couldn't help but notice you've lived in Fukuoka. I have a good friend from Fukuoka and I've never met anyone else from there ^_^

@phoenixheart6 one, two, three,, it's been about ten years since I've lived there. (oh my). I remember the place I lived as a bright, wide-skyed city.

very nice :)

Oh hi @ento :) someone was just telling me you've haven't been around in a while

hi @silvermaple! Yes, I seem to have a mild form of attention-deficiency and migrate from site to site.

Well welcome back, haha

Thx, lately I've been working on my vocabulary for English and other language(s) on memrise.com

Oh, just found that message mentioning me being awol. I don't know why it didn't pop into my global inbox? As a programmer I visit stackoverflow.com almost every hour. IIRC, there was a somewhat complex rule about @mention behavior in chat rooms.

I think it only pings you if you've been there for the last few days, but then there are some exceptions if you've been involved in an on-site comment conversation recently... or are intentionally 'ping'd into chat

そんな感じですよね

Is there a colloquial way that people would label their family members in their address book (like on this iPhone)? Or is it pretty straightforward? X伯母さん for Aunt X?

so many people in here... and yet so quiet -_-

a question about how versioning and numbering on japanese documents was voted close?

why?

@taylor I vaguely recall that question. Half of it seemed reasonable on topic and the other half just seemed kinda strange.

this one

seems fine to me

On the one hand... it REALLY isn't a question for JLU

how so

It seems like it is... but if you know what you're doing with that type of work, the answer is: "But your L10N library should handle most of this for you. If it doesn't, find another." as mentioned in the comment

yeah but so what, the question is of the form "how is XXX done in Japanese"

Granted... this is extrapolating from the example he gave... but I'm pretty sure that's the extent of it in this case

a) the title sucks (and pretty much gives away that the comment IS the right answer)

yeah the title does suck

b) the question is too hand wavy... and is basically a way of getting around the fact that the question is "translate this for me"

well the OP asks for "dates, versions, times, and numbers"

c) seems to me that his main question is about version numbers which is of none but his own concern and I don't see why language would factor in at all.

which is not a trivial topic in documentation

no need to give a date as an example

Kaz's answer does kinda redeem the question though... so perhaps we should edit the question to match the answer

if I had to date and record version history of a document that was meant japanese company, then this exactly the type of thing i would be wondering

since, presumabley these types of things are conventionalized in japan the way they are because of the language

Yeah... that's not "localization" though

it's worth noting that I searched the site for something like "version number" and that question didn't come up... had to wait for your link

oh

not localization?

well maybe the title just needs to be changed

@taylor localization, to me, means "translate this program's ui system to a new locale"... it's mostly a programming term

maybe "langauge localization" then

eh... I think more "how are dates, times and version numbers formatted in japanese?" or perhaps "What is the format of ..."

"format" is a better word to hit stupid-search(tm) with

"how are dates, times and version numbers formatted in japanese?" yes sure that sounds like a better title

"Date strings, and version strings, timestamps and numbers in Japanese"

can the titles of questions be changed?

yeah, it's part of the edit window

You probably don't have the rep for it yet

well, I propose "how are date strings, version strings, timestamps and numbers formatted in Japanese", but the last thing you said seemed good too

yay

ごくろさまでした

japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6629 A dangerous question, that "why?" But perhaps there is a system neither of us are spotting.

lolz dangerous question?

is it offensive or something

Asking "Why is the language like X?" can either be a path to enlightenment... or a rabbit hole to an evil queen's madhouse.

yeah i see

well its only human to incessantly ask why

this one is a toughy

@taylor: heh... on that tag edit, expect a re-edit from sawa

lolz well i didnt see what it had to do with phonology

@jkerian sawa's gone walkabout.

@jkerian Is it bad luck to flip a dolphin or a whale that's on your plate?

相生へああいう青い魚を追う

a complete sentence with only vowels lolz

@taylor huh?

あいおい　へ　ああいう　あおい　うお　を　おう

"to follow a blue fish towards Aioi"