Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

>>118
depends on context, you can just say/write purin when referencing something of "purin" nature, you don't need to double it

purin is also pudding, again depends on context, you put your finger on your girlfriend's cheek and say purin you aren't saying her face is pudding, that would be a normal thing to say, it would only be normal if you bounced your finger twice on her cheek and said "purin purin", do you get it?  it's kinda hard to explain when to use it

>>120
nothing, same meaning, i think that tatsujin is used more often though, meijin is only used in other combinations i think(such as "meijingei名人芸"