Japanese - Ask questions thread

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

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Really? Perhaps Jim reads /lang/ and just changed?

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%E4%B8%A1%E6%89%8B right?

両手(P); 諸手; 双手 【りょうて(両手)(P); もろて(諸手; 双手); そうしゅ(双手)】 (n) (1) (with) both hands; (2) approvingly; (P) [Ex][G][GI][S][A][W] [G][GI][S][A] [G][GI][S][A]

Although a quite confusing entry, I see only (P) at 両手 and りょうて. Actually, it looks like りょうて => 両手, もろて => 諸手/双手 and そうしゅ => 双手...

Perhaps you've another example? There should be as (P) is really just means frequent usage (at least in newspapers around the clinton era).