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)?

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?