Japanese Language

Anonymous

4:44 AM

JLU needs more questions to thrive.

Anonymous

I've been spending time coding instead of studying Japanese, though. Even though I'm just a learner, and there are plenty of things I don't know, I'm not sure what to ask

Anonymous

I do keep thinking of questions to ask, but I never write them down, so I forget... T_T

ちょこれーと

あはは

私も、書いておかないと、すぐ忘れます

Anonymous

5:00 AM

On English Language & Usage, a lot of the questions are asked by native speakers

Anonymous

Here on Japanese Language & Usage, it's mostly learners

Anonymous

I guess that's because this site is in English :-)

Anonymous

I read lots of answers on 知恵袋 but I've never posted there...

ちょこれーと

@snailboat そ、そうなのかぁ・・何か質問思いつかないかなあ

てか、質問があれば、知恵袋とかで聞いちゃうもんねえ・・・

日本語で楽だし・・

Anonymous

5:26 AM

Are there many Japanese sites like 知恵袋?

Anonymous

I think I've seen others on Google searches but I forgot what they were

ちょこれーと

6:09 AM

「教えてgoo」っていうのがあるよ

あと、OK waveかな

Anonymous

@ちょこれーと Oh, right! I forgot, I even signed up for OKwave

ちょこれーと

1:15 PM

へえ！私OKwaveも教えてgooもアカウント作ったことがないわ

知恵袋よりも「釣り」がいないから平和そう。

Anonymous

I made an account but I forgot to ever use it

Anonymous

But OKwave sends me email sometimes :-)

jovanni

1:57 PM

でも、知恵袋って間違いも結構多いし、訂正しようと思っても締め切られていてできないことが多い。ある意味、間違いや俗説を再生産している面がある。
「そういう説もある」程度に受け取った方が無難。

Laure

2:09 PM

Hello ! I don't speak any Japanese. I was brought some Japanese delicacies from Japan and I'd like to know what it is and what's in it. Could somebody help ?

jkerian

sure, if we can :)

Laure

jkerian

heh... the second one is manjuu, I'm surrounded by the stuff

third is a safety label... I haven't read all of it yet, but don't see any identifier for what the foodstuff is

Laure

The three labels are from the same box.

jkerian

ahh... the 1st and 3rd both look to be "Don't eat if the package has been opened... etc etc etc" type stuff

2nd one says it's a 16-pack of manjuu... someone better with names than me can probably read that brand name

Laure

2:16 PM

@jkerian Thanks a lot.

jkerian

2:49 PM

hmm... White Peach Skal is kinda tasty

ちょこれーと

3:08 PM

@Laure 包装紙wrapping paper and 箱box are both made of 紙paper and 袋bag and トレーtray are made from plastic. thank you for the purchase, this package is hermetically sealed so it's free from mold/rotting, it's kept fresh, but

@Laure after opening the package, please consume quickly

If it had a small hole, the product might be affected from heat, humidity etc

gibbon

..or else

ちょこれーと

@gibbon ふふ

@gibbon 下痢？

Please contact us if you find anything

gibbon

lol I don't know.. just added to your sentence, "consume quickly!"

ちょこれーと

@Laure May contain traces of peanuts, buckwheat

telephone number (toll free)

@Laure product name 饅頭八景manjuu hakkei

nutrition information...

16個 16 pieces,
Use by date December 29, 2013

Laure

3:24 PM

Thanks to all! And it tastes real nice.

ちょこれーと

Avoid direct sunlight, heat, humidity

Oh

And it says it's maker is in Osaka

gibbon

Basically treat it like an edible bomb of some sort. Edibility not guaranteed.

ちょこれーと

ｗｗｗ

ssb

manju is the food that old ladies give you..

ちょこれーと

@ssb yeah and okaki

senbei too?

ssb

3:30 PM

senbei is always omiyage from coworkers

old ladies always give me manju

ちょこれーと

I don't really like anko...

ssb

i don't love it, but i enjoy it enough to eat it out of politeness

jkerian

huh... I like it

ちょこれーと

@jkerian If you like anko, then you like youkan too, no?

and mizu-youkan

not ゆうかん

洋館じゃなくて

羊羹

But I like taiyaki and kaiten yaki

taiyaki=grilled seabream

kaiten-yaki=rotational grill?

あ、回転焼きって、大阪だけらしい

関東では「今川焼き」とか

Taiyaki

is a Japanese fish-shaped cake. The most common filling is red bean paste that is made from sweetened azuki beans. Other common fillings may be custard, chocolate, cheese, or sweet potato. Some shops even sell taiyaki with okonomiyaki, gyoza filling, or a sausage inside. Taiyaki is made using regular pancake or waffle batter. The batter is poured into a fish-shaped mold for each side. The filling is then put on one side and the mold is closed. It is then cooked on both sides until golden brown. See also *Wagashi *Bungeoppang References

baked sea breamか・・

@jovanni そうそう、知恵袋って間違い多いよね。しかも管理が行き届いてないのか、意地悪とか喧嘩とかしてる人多い・・・

Anonymous

4:00 PM

Maybe I should post it on Lang-8 and see what comments people make :-)

Anonymous

4:23 PM

Oh god, I'm writing a whole entry full of gibberish

Anonymous

4:42 PM

Yay, I contributed my gibberish to the internet.

jkerian

@snailboat hooray!

gibbon

Best sentence I've read in a while, star to you!

Anonymous

Yippee!

Anonymous

5:35 PM

Ooh, someone said my sentence specimens were ギリギリ大丈夫

Anonymous

lang-8.com/33541/journals/…

Anonymous

Someday, I plan to pay attention to the difference between の and こと.

Anonymous

But that's a long-term goal. I have to work up to it with stuff like "I'd better not put だ after いい"

jlptn1

7:22 PM

@ssb fresh manju from onsen land changed my mind on it

i only previously ate it before as omiyage and it was meh

Anonymous

8:08 PM

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A: What's the difference between wa (は) and ga (が)?

(This answer was originally at this question, but it seemed more appropriate here) は　and　が are a bit complex because they have several meanings, and some of the shades of meaning of wa and ga are a bit hard to distinguish casually. The best coverage of this that I have read is "The Structure of...

Anonymous

This answer seems to be about the semantic distinction between は and が, but there are also important syntactic differences, I think

Anonymous

I think I wrote this example down from Shibatani 1999:

Anonymous

鳥が飛ぶとき鳴く　　[ 鳥が飛ぶ ] とき鳴く　When the bird flies, X cries
鳥は飛ぶとき鳴く　　鳥は | 飛ぶとき鳴く　The bird, when it flies, cries

Anonymous

鳥が attaches to 飛ぶ, the verb in the embedded clause

Anonymous

鳥は skips over the embedded verb and attaches to the matrix verb, 鳴く

Anonymous

8:11 PM

So in a sense, the entire rest of the sentence predicates on the topic 鳥

Anonymous

And of course, は can appear in places が can't: ではない／＊でがない

Anonymous

And, I think, when は marks a topic, it must be clause-initial

Anonymous

Whereas (again, I think) が can almost always be scrambled from its unmarked position unless it's referred to later by e.g. 自分

Anonymous

Except in idioms like 気がする

Anonymous

So it could be good to have an answer that covers the syntactic differences as well as the semantic differences, since the choice isn't always between は and が. Sometimes there's no choice: only は makes sense, or only が makes sense. And sometimes the choice is between は and something else.

Anonymous

8:17 PM

I don't really feel qualified to write an answer about は vs が. I still get some of my は vs が exercises wrong, despite reading a lot about it :-(

Anonymous

But maybe someday!

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