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)?

Oh and a few more things I'd like to point out, I think 乙 is derived from お疲れ様　(otsukaresama) which is like "many thanks" However the kanji isn't the same, it might possibly have just been a nice and short way to say that, so then they hit space bar and got something different and just settled with that heh.

An example where this has happened, is for the anime show Bleach. It's buri-chi, but since they love shortening things, they called it buri instead, then I guess someone hit space and turned it into a kanji 鰤 (buri, which is a type of fish) and I guess they thought it funny so it's like a meme to call bleach that.