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    Thread: You know your writing system is complicated when ...
Post: RE: You know your writing system is complicated wh...

What was the reading of 殿? It can be used by itself as との in classical but I guess maybe they're looking for しんがり instead? I knew about 20-25% of those, which I guess isn't that bad.
yudantaiteki General discussion 12 537 Yesterday, 3:00 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

(2016-04-30, 2:14 am)FlameseeK Wrote: Still on this topic, I've just noticed another case of "not in the dictionary" in DS3 - 右武器 and 左武器. Since these are pretty straightforward and not in the dicti...
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,055 2016-04-30, 3:21 pm
    Thread: KanJi Hybrid Times
Post: RE: KanJi Hybrid Times

This is the cycle that results in nonsense like this: 1. People try to study way too many kanji in isolation, outside of the Japanese language 2. Their capacity to memorize out of context shapes runs...
yudantaiteki General discussion 6 870 2016-04-24, 6:37 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

You shouldn't expect to see a て there. Old guidelines by MEXT did say that you were supposed to provide okurigana for words like that, but in my experience that advice is not followed.
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,055 2016-04-22, 1:57 pm
    Thread: Kanji tatoo
Post: RE: Kanji tatoo

What would you think if you saw an Asian person with a tattoo that said "Journey life begin step"? That's what your tattoo will look like. If you still want it, go ahead, but the only people that will...
yudantaiteki General discussion 12 920 2016-04-04, 1:59 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Vempele is right. This is 生きて来る (return alive), with the なよ (after a verb stem is request/command; some people say it's a shortening of なさい)
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,055 2016-04-03, 7:17 am
    Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel
Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel

(2016-03-30, 6:47 am)HelenF Wrote: It's much easier to say that way, so hopefully of some use to the OP. 千円 as "sen-yen" is what I'm used to hearing, and I was surprised when I heard the Jpod pronu...
yudantaiteki General discussion 14 1,224 2016-03-30, 10:04 am
    Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel
Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel

Both of those are standard pronunciations.
yudantaiteki General discussion 14 1,224 2016-03-29, 5:49 pm
    Thread: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel
Post: RE: Pronouncing ん preceding a vowel

(2016-03-26, 9:26 am)Zgarbas Wrote: http://forvo.com/word/%E9%9B%B0%E5%9B%B2%E6%B0%97/ Try saying every syllable separately; note that the tongue never touches the roof of your mouth. Then practice ...
yudantaiteki General discussion 14 1,224 2016-03-26, 6:43 pm
    Thread: How would you replace the Kanji writing system?
Post: RE: How would you replace the Kanji writing system...

Roman letters. It would work because Japanese can be represented by roman letters.
yudantaiteki General discussion 25 2,581 2016-03-07, 3:43 pm
    Thread: Rare Grammar Points - 羽目になる、暁に
Post: RE: Rare Grammar Points - 羽目になる、暁に

This isn't grammar, it's just phrases or idioms. The J-E dictionary on my electronic dictionary has 暁に with two example sentences, and 羽目になる with three example sentences. alc.co.jp has a lot of exampl...
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 5 665 2016-02-23, 7:19 pm
    Thread: Will you/do you in verbs.
Post: RE: Will you/do you in verbs.

ている can be either, but 行っている is only resultant state (or habitual action in some contexts), except for a few cases (like 行っている所).
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 17 1,420 2016-02-20, 1:08 pm
    Thread: Olden forms for kanjis
Post: RE: Olden forms for kanjis

I usually don't see kyuujitai in academic articles; I only have to deal with them when reading things published before WW2. The current practice in publishing seems to be to change all kanji and kana ...
yudantaiteki General discussion 5 567 2016-02-18, 10:03 am
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-15, 10:37 pm)fkb9g Wrote: Go with the shinjitai forms in your own writing and don't waste too much thought. Unfortunately I don't think it's this simple because some of the shinjitai forms...
yudantaiteki Remembering the Kanji 41 4,185 2016-02-16, 10:59 am
    Thread: RTK2 Pure groups confusion
Post: RE: RTK2 Pure groups confusion

(2016-02-15, 8:03 pm)Lightninjaj Wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a little bit confused about the pure groups introduced in Chapter 2 of RTK2. It is my understanding that for these subset of kanji, each tim...
yudantaiteki General discussion 9 1,011 2016-02-16, 10:56 am
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

There's no easy answer to this question, and the text in the Joyo List that deals with this issue is confusingly written and doesn't really clarify things.
yudantaiteki Remembering the Kanji 41 4,185 2016-02-15, 10:06 pm
    Thread: Favorite J-J Dictionary?
Post: RE: Favorite J-J Dictionary?

I most often use 広辞苑 or the 明鏡 because those are on my electronic dictionary.
yudantaiteki General discussion 5 799 2016-02-15, 10:04 pm
    Thread: Japanese "politeness levels"
Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels"

(2016-02-09, 5:51 pm)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: I'm sorry, I realize now that you are an expert in Japanese. I will stop trying to push my own poor misconceptions of the language on you and go back to r...
yudantaiteki General discussion 52 4,355 2016-02-10, 10:09 pm
    Thread: Can anyone transcribe this calligraphy into kanji?
Post: RE: Can anyone transcribe this calligraphy into ka...

The last character is 談, I think. I still don't understand the sentence; 親不如 would be 親しからず but 手談 doesn't make much sense.
yudantaiteki General discussion 9 1,083 2016-02-08, 10:05 am
    Thread: I don't really get the point of the "report story" function?
Post: RE: I don't really get the point of the "report st...

In addition to inappropriate stories, there have also been examples of stories that were simply wrong -- the person misunderstood the meaning of the keyword, etc.
yudantaiteki General discussion 10 1,308 2016-02-05, 2:28 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

Incidentally, 箋 is a relatively common character in the stuff I read for my research (because it refers to a commentary), and I have never seen 䇳.
yudantaiteki Remembering the Kanji 41 4,185 2016-01-31, 8:01 am
    Thread: Meaning of 1870s Kanji Shodo on Japanese Student in America Photo ?
Post: RE: Meaning of 1870s Kanji Shodo on Japanese Stud...

The right column is 米國, so that is America. I agree with the identification of 於ボストン. The next characters might be 書是, and 返 is a good guess for the last character. That at least makes an understanda...
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 5 996 2016-01-27, 7:59 pm
    Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji
Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji

I doubt it; it's probably just sound. Especially in the older literary Chinese writings like the Classics, there was a lot more freedom to substitute characters that had the same sound (like the frequ...
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 60 13,764 2016-01-17, 8:39 pm
    Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji
Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji

いずくんぞ can also be written as 悪, which I always think is odd.
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 60 13,764 2016-01-17, 5:35 pm
    Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji
Post: RE: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji

This isn't unnecessary, but you start running into some really odd kanji and unusual readings (at least in comparison to modern use) when you read 漢文. Here are some examples from the beginning of Zhu ...
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 60 13,764 2016-01-17, 4:48 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

(2015-12-27, 4:25 am)Kuroro Wrote: A whole year with switched meanings and I never noticed lol Anyway right now I'm going through the three grammar dictionaries so maybe I'll run into this issue abo...
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 8,332 1,452,055 2015-12-27, 11:32 am
    Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ?
Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ?

If you want to hear エーアイアイ, try watching dtcamero's video, looking at the エーアイアイ line while you listen, and thinking エーアイアイ to yourself in time with the speech. This is the only way I can hear it, and...
yudantaiteki General discussion 27 2,644 2015-12-12, 11:02 am
    Thread: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ?
Post: RE: 撮ったのかよ or エーアイアイ?

I can only hear 撮ったのかよ in that whole video until they slow it down at the end. What's really weird is the video with the different speeds; I can get parts of that to sound like either 撮ったのかよ or エーアイア...
yudantaiteki General discussion 27 2,644 2015-12-08, 4:28 pm
    Thread: Is it true that even natives Japanese people will struggle on JLPT N1?
Post: RE: Is it true that even natives Japanese people w...

(2015-12-01, 6:23 am)zx573 Wrote: Overall, I'd say I have as much faith in a random Japanese person being able to pass the JLPT N1 as I do a random American being able to pass something equivalent t...
yudantaiteki JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 53 28,325 2015-12-01, 10:43 am
    Thread: Strangest word you've come across?
Post: RE: Strangest word you've come across?

It's originally a Malaysian word so the characters are just used for sound.
yudantaiteki The Japanese language 57 9,854 2015-11-30, 8:09 pm