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)?

Pudding is soft and springy.
smooth skin of young girls look like pudding.

(^o^)/ < look! that girl is prinprin!

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|(^o^)|/ ((prin))((prin))
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