getoj

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by getoj 10y ago
Can you do metre? This is about as clear an example of 3/4 time (dactyls, in poetry) as you can get, I think: RAINdrops on | ROSes and | WHISkers on | KITtens [beat] | BRIGHT copper | KETtles and | WARM woolen | MITtens [beat] Fast s
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by getoj 10y ago
>I think our writing system would likely be more similar to Korean and Japanese syllable systems. I don't think there's any reason to suppose that. Syllabaries like Japan's lend themselves to a certain kind of language, sp
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by getoj 10y ago
The original magazine text has it superscript - it's probably an OCR error.
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by getoj 10y ago
Note that these are from 2005, and both the stations pictured have had quite major renovations since then - Shinjuku has a big new southern annex that would be in the bottom right of this picture, and Shibuya had a platform ripped out of th
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by getoj 10y ago
Still does for some languages. Just last week I was looking for the lyrics to "I'm a Little Teapot" in Japanese, and the translate suggestion was watashi wa sukoshi tiipotto desu : "I am slightly teapot." (As to th
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by getoj 10y ago
>I wonder how relevant technology has been to the reduction in kanji. Actually IMEs have led to a resurgence in kanji usage. A lot of words that normal people could not (and were not expected to) write in kanji are now used online every
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by getoj 10y ago
A major problem of English spelling reform is that pronunciation varies widely among native speakers. That problem is only made worse by an even greater number of non-native speakers having appeared, with an even greater variety of pronunci
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by getoj 10y ago
The reason for this is contextual (internet posts), not grammatical. You'll get more results if you remove the polite ending and/or the topic particle (try "来週学校に行かない").
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by getoj 10y ago
Hi, I'm a gainfully employed translator of Japanese and linguist. Short answer: the sentence is fine as it stands, although your alternative is equally grammatical (if less idiomatic - "学校へ行かない" gets about 1/4 of the ghi