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811.
by Tor3 4y ago
My Google accounts were created earlier, so I guess that "feature" has been added later. And yes, it's crazy. At least I'm not forced to add a phone after the fact. My parents didn't have phone numbers registered w
812.
by Tor3 4y ago
Also "Why did so many buildings collapse?" https://www.bbc.com/news/64568826 Quote: In Turkey [..] the government has provided periodic "construction amnesties" - effectively legal exemptions for
813.
by Tor3 4y ago
It's not that common. Of all the several hundreds accounts I've had to make over the years (>800) the ones which require a phone number is around five or six I think, although I can only recall three at the moment. (EditAdd:
814.
by Tor3 4y ago
Well, yes, I didn't say anything contradicting that either. I wasn't about to write up the whole story - it is in any case available via that link I gave. I don't think I gave the impression that the Emperor himself rallied u
815.
by Tor3 4y ago
There was indeed a bit of (at least apparent) threat involved. No colonialism or imperialism though - Japan has never been a colony of anyone as long as Japan as a nation has existed (which is, officially, since around 660BC [0] [0] https:
816.
by Tor3 4y ago
The Meiji restoration, as this was called, removed the Shogunate (=top dog warlord) which had ruled for a good couple hundred of years and re-inserted imperial rule (i.e. the Japanese emperor was again the ruler). This was done by the Japan
817.
by Tor3 4y ago
We did exactly that - well, one of the crew's job was to fix eyes on the head (not much point extending the arm, we turned the sailboat as quickly as we could), but due to being just a typical sail yacht's one meter above sea leve
818.
by Tor3 4y ago
I and friends owned a 40-foot sail yacht when we were younger. We did some experiments with people, dummies, and various items which had the same profile above water as a human (i.e. head-sized). We would drop (if it was cold) a dummy or a
819.
by Tor3 4y ago
Forgot to include: We had microphones up there too! It was literally quiet.
820.
by Tor3 4y ago
Several military airplanes, including fighters, can and do fly that high and more. I never said anything about navigation risks - that was from other posters. Obviously space debris is a much higher daily risk, for satellites.
821.
by Tor3 4y ago
Well.. November 2003, so only after that can you claim "decades", plural.. it's a while yes, but clearly shows that at least it's in the realm of commercial aircraft, and may happen again, in principle. Edit: By the way,
822.
by Tor3 4y ago
No, as Walter said, it's moving with the wind, i.e. it has the same speed as the wind. It's only if there's a sudden gust that you would see anything flowing over the balloon. I took part in a balloon experiment a couple of y
823.
by Tor3 4y ago
On the contrary, listening to Japanese feels easier than listening to a lot of other languages, even for speech which you don't actually understand. The sounds are simple, there are a lot of vowel sounds. Straight forward vowels, not d
824.
by Tor3 4y ago
Yes, learn Hiragana and Katakana first. It doesn't take that long. Young people can do it in days or a week, I took about a month or so. But, unlike what I did, and many others do, I recommend learning Hiragana and Katakana at the sam
825.
by Tor3 4y ago
Blame it on the Chinese - Japanese didn't have that many "counter words" until Chinese influence increased that by an order of magnitude or more. As for why you need them, Wikipedia points out that because there's no con
826.
by Tor3 4y ago
I, as a non-native English speaker, also immediately feel that "green great dragons can't exist". But how to explain that..
827.
by Tor3 4y ago
Yes, that's how e.g. Human Japanese (PC, Android etc) defines how the topic marker should be understood, and it definitely helps.
828.
by Tor3 4y ago
The main reason for imagining the zero-が is that it helps you understand the structure of Japanese. Do this, and you'll never get confused by "は" and "が" again. And understanding that が always marks a subject, and
829.
by Tor3 4y ago
I can read only a limited number of kanji (or rather, words written with kanji), but even that makes reading much easier. Books for small children are written in Hiragana, with spaces, and in theory that should be as easy to read as English
830.
by Tor3 4y ago
True enough, in many ways Japanese looks like a spoken-only language where the parties communicating are always visible to each other and share the context. They did get their writing system pretty late, though not that much later than ma
831.
by Tor3 4y ago
What you say about children of Japanese people living outside Japan - yes, I've seen exactly that. Every day, in fact. As for my English example.. it's grammatically a mess, the word order is wrong etc, but if you hear that senten
832.
by Tor3 4y ago
If you think of Japanese writing as a whole (kanji, hiragana, katakana where needed) then indeed you can encode more information in less space . Which is easy to see if you compare the Japanese sections with the English sections of dual-l
833.
by Tor3 4y ago
I know a person who is fully fluent (I should write "proficient") in Japanese, he has lived in Japan for decades. Built a successful career. But he can't write Japanese. He doesn't read Kanji. Sounds almost incomprehensi
834.
by Tor3 4y ago
You are now talking about the written Japanese language, with all the (real) problems with Kanji, an imported writing system. True enough, but that has little to do with the Japanese language . If you look at verbs, and ignore the rubbish
835.
by Tor3 4y ago
That's why it's called a zero-が if there's no "が", because every valid Japanese sentence needs a subject. It may sound like nitpicking, but it's important to clarify that it is not correct to say that "
836.
by Tor3 4y ago
Almost - you would write it 私は「私が」牛乳を食べます, and obviously 私は doesn't serve a grammatical purpose, it only has an indicative function.
837.
by Tor3 4y ago
It's called the zero-が and is before the object, in this case. Note that you don't need 私は for that sentence to be a fully valid sentence. It does not serve an actual grammatical function. The subject happens to be 私, and it is
838.
by Tor3 4y ago
A very important distinction which textbooks often fail to explain clearly. The subject is always and only が. Even if there's no が in the visible sentence.
839.
by Tor3 4y ago
Duolingo doesn't manage to show you the structure of the language. I wasted a very long time with Duolingo. It's much better to use the time on just about anything else if you want to learn Japanese.
840.
by Tor3 4y ago
As for explaining Japanese to programmers.. When I try to explain basic Japanese grammar to people in general, they always respond "Sounds complicated". But if I explain basic Japanese grammar to long-time programmers they simp

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