What do people here think... should I go through the backlog of crappy resource questions on the site and abuse my newly found mod-powers to close them all?
It is... but I'm not convinced that the utility of allowing resource questions outweighs the annoyance of wading through really crappy resource questions.
The above example is a good case. That's a crappy question. Even if we allowed resource questions as a category, it still needed to be closed. (dup of a better question, open-ended, and just generally lacked enough specifics for anyone to answer)
"Resource Questions" are our site's version of 'shopping questions'... and have all of the same issues
I mean... some people will always see this place as "just like reddit's /LearnJapanese", where "What textbook should I buy?" is fully on-topic and shows up about twice a month.
If we allow resource questions, but still require them to be both specific and generally useful... we're just going to have that argument every single bloody time.
I guess if they've stuck around long enough the person would know that resource questions don't really belong
Unless we make them go through a checkbox "I have read and understood that resource request questions are off topic on this site" before submitting a question
@gibbon I think you see that more in reference books.
JLPT study books at higher levels will use those terms
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動詞 and 形容詞 are in dictionaries
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Though usually they're abbreviated in the entries themselves, if you look up what the abbreviations stand for in the front flap of either of the two 国語辞典 i have, it lists the full words
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I spent some time learning those for the sake of understanding what was written in my dictionaries!
I can't really understand why sometimes い adjectives are transformed to nouns instead of just being used themselves.
I.E.
白い鳥 has 300,000 google hits while 白の鳥 has 4 million.
近い家 has 113,000 google hits while 近くの家 has 150 million
I tried searching but I didn't really find any explanatio...