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)?

>>500
Because you can't operate google...

With quotes:
お金が欲しい：289,000 results, お金がほしい：101,000 results
お金を欲しい：39,000 results, お金がほしい：12,700 results

Without quotes:
お金が欲しい：289,000 results, お金がほしい：289,000 results
お金を欲しい：2120 results, お金をほしい：3870 results

I found the fact that お金をほしい and お金を欲しい returned more results with quotes... but even then it's still fairly conclusive.

を is either a common grammatical `mistake' on the part of
native speakers or maybe a way of adding emphasis to the お金.
Although I would've thought さえ would be used for that :).