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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 2008-02-20 16:01

>>917
I found this
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1010854330

Was kinda hard to understand for me, but it seems like the 1 dot was like an abbreviation, and there's a few others that changed too.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 1:08

are run on sentences that common in japan? there's some girl I know who barely uses any grammar whatsoever. Annoying to read.
Example:

「私が、英語力があればもっと多くの人と話せる機会が増えるんだろうけど
今は、日本語がわかる外人さんにお話させてもらえ、意見を言ってもらったり言葉さえ通じれば、ある程度の慣習は、違うけど、人間の考えてる事ってさほど変わりないな」
dear god woman, sentences! :(

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 2:02

>>922
I can't tell what's wrong with that sentence.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 5:58

>>922
just admit it
you can't read Japanese well enough

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 6:55

>>924
ok
i can't read japanese well enough
but her japanese is still weird

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 18:59

Can anyone translate "膩胯裸子" in both meaning and pronunciation?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 19:10

>>926
Babelfish sez "Something Something Naked Seed" and google says ジコウラシ.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 20:12

>>926
smooth crotch naked child
just a random assortment of kanji, no real pronunciation

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 20:35

dear lang, how do you say:

"KATAKANA IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL"

in Japanese?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 20:58

"カタカナ が CC4C"?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 11:37

>>930
CC4C? Is dat sum lazy?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 19:04

Is it just me of is browsing 2ch absolutely hell?
They got all their damn links in a huuuuge block, each topic is just tacked on after the next topic instead of getting a new line, and japanese don't use spaces so it's like one giant wall of text from hell.

How the hell do they navigate that garbage? Is there some way to change Pseud0ch to Yotsuba which is actually fucking readable?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 22:35

>>932
you need 専門ブラ - a special-use bra(wser), a 2ch navigator
www.monazilla.org

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 4:40

>>933
so many versions...

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-27 21:39

In Japanese, if something is too much, they say XXすぎる. If something's a little too much, they say ちょっとXXすぎる.

If I wanted to say that something was way too much, how would I say it? Would it be とてもXXすぎる?

Thanks!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-27 21:45

>>935
あまりにもXXすぎる

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-27 23:32

How do I say "She's even cuter with an accent."?

I don't want to use the xはyよりadjです form for a few reasons, mainly being that it doesn't express the fact that she was cute before she had an accent.

Can anybody help?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 0:23

>>937
There are several ways to say "X is even comaparative adj with Y."
In that case, I'd say:
彼女は訛りがあるからなおさらかわいいです。
or 彼女は訛りがあるだけに一層かわいいね。

一層 is いっそう in hiragana.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 8:02

I have a question regarding noun phrases and the use of の.

Usually の is used as in:
本を読むのが好きです。

but occasionally it is omitted as in:
本を読む方がうまいです。

Is there a rule for this? or just lots of exceptions?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 10:00



What is this?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-28 13:47

Is there a difference between 暖かい and 温かい

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 7:57

>>940
centimeter
センチ(メートル)

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 8:08

>>939 Don't know.
>>940 cm. ㌔=kg./km.
>>941 寒い-暖かい-熱い, 冷たい-温かい-暑い

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 12:49

How do I say that I need to do something in Japanese?

Ex: I need to return home.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 14:20

>>944 masu stem + なければなりません, or the colloquial version なきゃ

帰りなきゃ

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 19:30

>>892
>>上げるぞう鳥、上げるぞう
This literally means "Rising elephantbird, rising elephant". I think you're looking for the particle ぞ, and even then, that's an awfully clumsy way of saying it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 19:33

>>945
帰らなくちゃ/帰らなきゃ, not 帰りなくちゃ/帰りなきゃ.

Also, the きゃ form is the ちゃ form's dirty little brother.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-29 23:11

寒い-暖かい-暑い, 冷たい-温かい-熱い

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-01 0:32

When japanese see a white person in japan do they immediately think he's just a traveler who doesn't know Japanese? Like if I was to go there and approach someone, would they be like lolsorrynoengrish before I have a chance to speak Japanese?

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-01 3:19

short answer: yes

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-01 16:39

>>949
I spent some time in japan and one day I just happened to be milling around town and some people from out of town actually asked me for directions.  Why they didn't stop in a store and ask a japanese person I'll never know...

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 2:35

Blah, they should swap 五 with 六

五 looks like 6, and 六 is pointing out in 5 points.. I can't be the only one who keeps thinking 五 looks like 6 for a second, of course I know it's 5 though..

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 2:47

>I can't be the only one

You're the only one.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 3:13

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 6:07

>>954
Interesting...

anyways, what's Japans general consensus for anime, manga, and light novels? Would you be seen as an otaku fag if you had an interest in one of them or whatever?

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 6:46

>>955
Reading manga is popular even among adults and totally acceptable unless it's Hentai or loli/pedo. No one says like "lol you're still reading comics." As for anime, pretty much every young kid watches at least some Shounen/Shoujo such as DBZ, One Piece and whatnot. It's OK for adults to enjoy family anime like some Ghibli. But, not as in manga, you'd be considered childish/perverted if you say you're interested in other kind of anime, let alone Hentai. Light novels are for totally otaku fags. Average normal Japanese don't read light novels even if he/she reads manga.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 15:40

>>956
thanks

It almost seems like it should be backwards. Especially light novels, since they're practically like a book, and books are considered as mature (at least in america), meh. I'd imagine though games would be on the scale of manga too, huh

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 17:49

How do I form polite negative commands? All I can find is informal (verb+な) and that's no good for what I need to do.

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 19:21

>>958
話さないで下さい。
食べないで下さい。
死なないで下さい。
落ちないで下さい。

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-02 21:34

In English, when somebody's running around naked and everybody screams "Eww!", then naked person usually responds "What, it's not like it's nothing you haven't seen before."

Do the Japanese have a phrase like this?

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