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Flaw

Apr 22 11:20

@Arfrever well it's mostly self moderated by high rep users, and we're just exception handlers if things get really out of hand

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:49

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A: Are there general rules on when to use kanji vs. kana?

If we want an authoritative source, we could look at the official terminology used by the Japanese government as set out by the Agency of Cultural Affairs (文化庁) (might be familiar name to some people as their page about 二重敬語 gets referenced here sometimes). They start by saying only to use kanji ...

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:48

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A: When is よう written in kanji as 様?

This depends on personal taste and situations, but in general Japanese people are generally taught to use hiragana for auxiliary verbs and particles. ～あての(手紙)　～宛ての(手紙)　(a letter) to ～～ごとに　～毎に　per ～～ために　～為に　in order to ～～できる　～出来る　be able to ～～ように　～様に　like ～～において　～に於いて　at ～ (place) I suppo...

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:48

You can also read these answers:

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:46

The answer isn't particularly comprehensive or satisfactory. If you like, you can ask a new question or place a bounty on this one to attract more attention

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:46

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Q: When is "事" used instead of こと for past experiences?

In the "ことがあります" construction about past experiences, when is "事" used, and when is "こと" used? The textbook used in class uses "こと": 六本木のおんせんに行ったことがあります。 If it wanted to use "事" instead of "こと", it could have, as that kanji was taught in the same lesson. (Lesson 5 of "Japanese for Busy ...

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:46

However, I think there is no difference bewteen ことがある and 事がある

Flaw

Dec 10, 2024 14:45

@HerrFeinmann I think the general rule of thumb is that fixed expressions that serve a grammatical role more than the original word's semantic meaning tend to remain as hiragana

Flaw

Oct 27, 2024 13:48

I think your dictionary is specifically a kanji dictionary

Flaw

Oct 26, 2024 05:04

called the 五十音順 - fifty sound order

Flaw

Oct 26, 2024 05:04

physical dictionaries are typically sorted in this order

Flaw

Oct 26, 2024 05:03

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A: What is the equivalent of "alphabetical order" in Japanese?

Hiragana syllables are always schematised in a given order which is this one (from right to left, as you may already know): HIRAGANA KATAKANA After a while I started Japanese, I also found this video, the Japanese Alphabet song (only for hiragana), that can be interesting for absolut...

Flaw

Oct 26, 2024 05:02

Yes there are dictionaries sorted "in alphabetical order" according to "how it's spelled" in hiragana

Flaw

Aug 24, 2024 02:10

once all the "basic" grammar questions have been asked, newer questions from recent learners mostly get redirected to older questions or get their questions marked as dupes, which would normally not occur in other forums

Flaw

Aug 24, 2024 02:08

even though the chat site exists, but it seems to be a lesser known feature

Flaw

Aug 24, 2024 02:08

yeah I think they could have done other things to promote the use of the site/chat but due to the focused direction of being a QnA site, long discussions on the questions are actively discouraged so it doesn't lend itself to fostering a community easily

Flaw

Aug 18, 2024 17:18

@AndreaIovinelli there are no active bans on you, you should be able to post a question

Flaw

Apr 28, 2024 14:42

it's not obvious, and it's also not obvious that things that don't quite fit on the main site are often discussed here

Flaw

Apr 28, 2024 14:42

yeah I agree about it being buried in the UI

Flaw

Apr 28, 2024 14:03

It really shouldn't be the case that the main chat for the site should freeze automatically

Flaw

Apr 28, 2024 14:02

Here's some messages to thaw out the room

Flaw

Feb 28, 2024 15:39

is 開運招福 a common saying in Japanese?

Flaw

Jan 12, 2024 05:31

あ~　よかった

Flaw

Jan 10, 2024 01:56

@chocolate 地震に影響されましたか？だいじょうぶ？

Flaw

Jan 10, 2024 01:51

But we do have a few users who do regularly pop in and out of chat

Flaw

Jan 10, 2024 01:50

It's a pity the community here is mostly Q&A on the main site and not as social on chat. Perhaps there are many competing language learning social platforms that have better social features than our simple chatroom

Flaw

Aug 4, 2023 02:42

you may not think your answer is a better answer, but other users might be able to see a perspective that could be helpful

Flaw

Aug 4, 2023 02:41

well as long as it's not a plagiarised answer, and if it offers a bit more than "I agree with the other answer because of the same reasons"

Flaw

Jul 21, 2023 10:08

yep seems so

Flaw

Jun 17, 2023 05:50

sure, chat is for everything else that doesn't quite fit on the main site

Flaw

May 10, 2023 09:53

Please visit the above issue and if there is more community consensus, we can ask for a change to the character limit

Flaw

May 10, 2023 09:53

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Q: Can we shorten/remove the question title length requirement?

Currently, the JSE requires its question titles be at least 15 characters long. However, this 15-character requirement was set for English, in which a word is easily 4-10 letters long, and any question in under 15 characters can be safely assumed to be too brief. In Japanese, however, with Kanji,...

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Flaw

May 4, 2023 11:47

I think it's alright to reduce the character length requirement, but it's probably a SE sitewide policy and we'll have to call in the powers that be to change it

Flaw

Apr 13, 2023 03:14

@Chocolate I've sent a cm contact request on your behalf. Hopefully they find a fix to your issue

Flaw

Apr 12, 2023 02:22

but simply dropping links, and repeatedly asking other users to join, comes off as spam instead of driving discussions on the chat site

Flaw

Apr 12, 2023 02:21

now usually sharing links of what one finds useful is normally not a problem, and it even invites useful discussion on why a particular resource is helpful

Flaw

Apr 12, 2023 02:20

@cmw he has done that before in the past, and after leaving the link here, continuously asks people to join him off-site. The user has been suspended several times on the main site and on various chat sites in the past for low quality contributions with no changes after minor suspensions.

Flaw

Mar 31, 2023 03:02

I read through that answer and it seems to be talking about もの in a roundabout way without actually making any reference to the question. I've deleted that answer.

Flaw

Mar 31, 2023 02:46

If an AI generated answer is clearly wrong, or of very poor quality, you can downvote it or flag it as "very low quality" or flag for moderator attention if you noticed behaviours that we missed.

Flaw

Mar 31, 2023 02:43

I agree that the answer appears to be from an AI, but it's difficult to prove that it is. I am convinced that AI answers are a problem, however I don't believe that a unique flag for AI answers is a practical solution.

Flaw

Mar 18, 2023 06:25

should have been 5

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 19:09

For that reason, I am particularly intolerant of using our site as a testing ground for AI generated content, and I do not want to encourage a environment where we have to sift through mostly garbage in order to find a good coherent post.

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 19:08

Now I think the next issue is the volume of posts that can be generated with the help of AI. If previously we were getting 10 wrong answers, we don't want to be in a situation where we are getting 1000 wrong answers in the same timeframe, and the downvoting or flagging system becomes unable to cope with the sheer amount of nonsense being filtered through.

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 19:08

The problem isn't as severe if the AI generates a verifiably wrong answer; we already have the downvoting system for that to filter out wrong answers. It doesn't matter if it is wrong and written by a human, or wrong and written by an AI. It will be treated as a low quality contribution.

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 19:07

My opinion is that if you use an AI to assist in writing an answer, and it is correct, and the community is unable to discern if it came from a human author, or an AI author, or a human author with some AI contribution, then it is empirically as functional as an actual answer and should be treated as such.

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 19:07

I think there's several issues at play with AI answers. First of all is whether or not it generates a verifiably correct answer. Secondly, if it can indeed create a correct answer indistinguishably from a human author, then there may or may not be also an ethical(?) obligation to disclose that it was AI generated.

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 19:07

I'm just gonna leave some of my thoughts on AI generated answers here

Flaw

Jan 4, 2023 18:31

@DariusJahandarie It is done. I will be watching.

Flaw

Nov 19, 2022 08:51

if you put the main verb "used" back, the sentence is complete.
However, "XX is not used the way you think it does (used)" is not grammatically correct

Flaw

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