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)?

isn't じゃん a bit more girlish? I'm not sure myself

anyways, when you look up something and it has multiple readings, I.E.　両腕　and it can be read as ryouude or moroude, is there any way to find out which was is correct to read it? I just say ryou because ryou is more common. Maybe is there a site that shows which saying is more popular? Because I know some pronunciations are practically dead.