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Name: Anonymous 2007-03-24 3:04 ID:DnRX6EFG

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)?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-31 14:50

>>800
It has too many multiple meanings. It would help if you give me an example in which the said word is used.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-31 21:23

>>798
wwwありがと、でも2chが時々良くない。

>>799
you are foolish, and i have had more white pussy then you could dream of (haha i hope that was right)

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-31 21:27

>>802
Fucking n00b.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-31 21:41

>>788
違うわ!That's「ワッ!」you stupid!

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-31 21:47

>>804
can be used as both. it depends on the inflection

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-01 18:28

>>801
Make examples with the different meanings.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-01 20:58

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-01 21:18

Do kanjis that usually combine at the end of another kanji have a name? Kinda like Okurigana for kana, but not really

e.g. 飛び込む
I'm interested so I can find out more about them.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-02 3:16

I've been wondering about this for a while... If I was going to talk about my hands, would I use いる or ある?

For example, I have 2 hands.
私は手が二個___。

I apologize for the counter... I just sorta guessed.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-02 6:01

私は手が二個ある。・私は手が二個ついている。

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-02 9:59

CHILD PORN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY UNDERAGE PORNOGRAPHY VICKY PRETEEN HARDCORE PTHC R@YGOLD HUSSYFAN MASSACRE DEAD KILL SHOOT GUN
I WILL KILL OVER 9000 STUDENTS AT WHATEVER LOCATION
I WILL MURDER OVER 9000 STUDENTS AT WHATEVER LOCATION ON 4/22
WHISTLE FOR A CAB AND WHEN IT CAME NEAR
MURDER KILL NAKED CHILDREN PHOTO DEE DEE FUCK FBI FUCK THE FEDS DRUGS CHILD ABUSE FUCK KIDS
BUSH BOMB KILL PRESIDENT ANTHRAX
ASSASSIN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT
AL QAEDA SECRET MESSAGE AL QAEDA HIDDEN MESSAGE

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-02 15:44

>>811
lol wut?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-02 20:39

>>811
Would you like this translated into Japanese? I'm sure one of these very helpful and wonderful people could happily oblige such a request for you. It would be very nice if someone did that for you.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 4:39

What's the usual reading and meaning behind 己? I see it often but it just has so many meanings. I tried googling 「己」読み方 but I didn't have too much luck, about 3 pages in I saw おのれ though, but the context was kinda weird, not to mention there's still tons of different meanings for おのれ

How do you usually find correct readings to kanji when there are multiple pronunciations? I'd imagine my method would work a lot better on rarer kanji that Japanese themselves might have trouble with..

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 4:46

Me again, and the more I think about it, I suppose it means "you"
I just remember in anime people saying おのれ to other people when pissed off, although the context of 己 is different

I guess what I'm more interested in is a way to find the popular/correct readings when there are multiple ones..

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 7:24

>>814
>>815
"己" is usually pronounced "おのれ" and has some different meanings (and different sounds, of course). I think, in vernacular Japanese, it most likely means something like "oneself." Sometimes it may mean "you" in a rude way or, if anything, "bastard." Note that the latter usage is not very common and you'll find it more often in manga/anime than in actual conversation.

>I guess what I'm more interested in is a way to find the popular/correct readings when there are multiple ones..
Sorry, it doesn't seem I can help you on this. But after all, even native Japanese speakers have to resort to tons of drill learning for several years to master kanjis; Yes, I did back when I was a schoolkid.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 9:59

Is there a Japanese word for niggers? Or do they just do the niggersu thing like with pants?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 10:44

I guess you could use "ニッゲル - NIGGERU"

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 11:41

>>817
黒人 kurojin (lit: blackman)
its fairly offensive but japs are racist

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 13:37

>>818
>>819
Thanks!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 15:31

>>818
Actually it's ニガー, not ニッゲル

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 17:27

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 17:29

>>816
Ah thanks. That'll help me.

For Japanese having to study that too, at least they know the language so they already know the correct readings most of the time, and if they don't, it probably has furigana on it to begin with. For me, if it doesn't have furigana, I just have to guess what the reading is. I'm sure I know many words that I'm reading wrong without knowing, heh.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 18:04

>>819
Can 黒人 also be pronounced "Kokujin"?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 21:12

Hello I'm new

May i ask something about a word? I'm curious about why... I'd like to ask to any person who knows about the sense of kanjis, why 十分な means "enough" when literally translated could mean 10 minutes? it has to do with some old-fashioned comercial habit or does it related to a religios habit? What could that be?

I hope this question don't bother, anons

Thanks

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 21:31

>>825
I'm not sure where you got the religious habit idea

but I'd imagine it's just like English in many ways

When we say, "Just a second" We don't mean "One second is all", but "Wait for awhile before I can assist you"

Or maybe a better example would be tons. 十分 can also mean plenty. Tons means a lot.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 21:43

>>826
well, i talked about religous idea because there could be in the past some activity (a praying, or some activity cult) which delay 10 minutes and when they finish they though it was enough... it could be some old commercial tradition

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 21:47

*sorry
cult    = x (wrong said)
worship = o (the suitable word i wanted to use)

Sorry my english is not good... ¬_¬

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 22:38

Well I don't know the origins of how it happened, but I guess you can use your imagination, '10 is enough'?

Like I brought up earlier though, a ton is 1000kg or 2,204.6 pounds, but we use it sometimes to suit the meaning "a lot"

It wouldn't even surprise me if in some language, "a few" was the same as the number 3 in their own language

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-03 23:07

>>824
yes

actually thats more correct and common

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-04 0:12

>>819thats kokujin, nobony aint say kurojin never.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-04 1:47

>>831
i have heard it. its probably slang though

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-05 0:46

I know the literal meaning, but I frequently see "死んじゃう" or other forms in h. Is it a term for cumming, or is it more or less literally dieing?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-05 1:19

>>833

Or other forms?

Are you talking about the じゃう? or the whole term 死んじゃう?

じゃう/じゃった・ちゃう/ちゃった is the colloquial form of shite shimau (to do something completely.

I don't see how you got 死んじゃう as cum, but you must fap to some freak porn. the ちゃう form to cum would be いっちゃう

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-05 20:02

I found this story on how these sages created radicals

As they reduced the kanji to simpler and simpler forms, these simpler forms turned into RADICALS. Put another way, when the sages were simplifying the kanji for topic ( 題 ), they were not thinking IS IT WEIRD THAT SUN AND HEAD AND FOOT MEAN TOPIC? WILL THIS BE CONFUSING TO FOREIGNERS 1,000 YEARS FROM NOW? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE! The meaning of it was not on their minds at all. They were thinking, “WHICH COMBINATION OF RADICALS MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES THE ORIGINAL PICTOGRAPH? BECAUSE WE ARE JUST SIMPLIFYING IT BUT WE DON’T WANT TO FUCK AROUND AND INVENT A WHOLE NEW LANGUAGE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.” And the one sage would be looking at the original pictograph, like, “If you draw the top part like this, it kind of looks like the sun radical.” And the other sage was like, “Yeah, and if you squint your eyes and drink some sake, the bottom part kind of looks like feet.” And the third sage was like, “The right side looks like nothing on God’s green earth, plus we have 200 more kanji to simplify before lunch, so let’s just make it the face one, fuck it.” and they hi-fived and moved on. Anyway, this is the system we are stuck with

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-05 22:26

>>835
chinese moon runes: messing with foreigners since 10000 b.c.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-05 22:59

>>833
It's like a woman saying, "(Ohhh! This is so good! I can't take it!) I'm gonna die!"

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-06 0:00

haha you wacky weeaboos and your hentai

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-06 1:19

I found this site, and the kanji lookup for it is amazing
http://www.mahou.org/Kanji/

It might even debunk jim breen's WWWJDIC

Question: Do all Kanjis have one popular romaji reading they go by?

For the kanji section on the site, I've noticed that there is a romaji reading listed, but only one, and it doesn't seem to follow on-yomi or kun-yomi, nor the first in the list. Is it by which is more popular or something? Or is there like an actual official romaji reading list? It does seem to follow popular readings, but I'm not 100% sure if that's how it works or not.

Name: Can I do it? 2008-02-06 3:54

I'm going to try and cram like fuuuuck and learn how to write all jouyou+ kanji and english meanings before school starts up in 12 days with http://kanji.koohii.com/

 I probably know how to write 100 right now already, and can read maybe 400-500

How badly do you think I will fail? Feel free to guess, I shall report back in Feb 19 because I know anonymous cares <3

currently at 40 D=


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