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    Thread: Spreadsheet/regex questions
Post: Spreadsheet/regex questions

aldebrn, I've saved your instructions for future reference. Thank you. aldebrn Wrote:If you wind up needing to do this to a huge file which you can't paste into the web console, you can try venturin...
Thora Learning resources 9 1,207 2015-09-25, 11:24 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet/regex questions
Post: Spreadsheet/regex questions

anotherjohn Wrote:In B1 put: =mid(c$1,a1,1) and copy down It worked (I just needed to use semi-colons). What a useful formula to know. Thanks! Playing around with it a bit , it seems to mean (...
Thora Learning resources 9 1,207 2015-09-24, 5:59 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet/regex questions
Post: Spreadsheet/regex questions

Thank you both for your quick responses. :) yogert909, I just discovered that using Replace: $1\n works in OpenOffice Writer (rather than \1\n). Neither of them worked in Notepad++. It woul...
Thora Learning resources 9 1,207 2015-09-24, 5:48 pm
    Thread: Spreadsheet/regex questions
Post: Spreadsheet/regex questions

Hi folks. I'm hoping to separate a block of individual kanji into one kanji per row for use in a spreadsheet Is there a simple way to use regex in Notepad or Open Office to insert a line break after ...
Thora Learning resources 9 1,207 2015-09-24, 3:41 pm
    Thread: Copyright issue with eBooks from Japanese Amazon - please help
Post: Copyright issue with eBooks from Japanese Amazon -...

Green_Airplane Wrote:[...]In any case, my VISA card has been misused, and has been blocked as a result. I'm getting a new card in 8 to 10 business days. But in the mean time, my only option for online...
Thora Learning resources 30 3,474 2015-09-01, 5:35 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

4 〔(「…できかない」の形で) 足りない, それ以上である〕 do not suffice; be more than…. 1 万円じゃきかないだろう. That would cost more than \10,000. たしかに 10 万人じゃきかない. More than a hundred thousand people, I can assure you. ...
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2015-06-09, 4:19 pm
    Thread: Explanatory んです
Post: Explanatory んです

I believe Viharati's example is fine as is. While it's not okay to say [彼らは] 試合が見たい, it's okay to say [彼らは]試合が見たいんですよ 。Nominalizations and evidential markers can lift the first person constraint. ...
Thora The Japanese language 11 1,397 2015-05-30, 1:33 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Here's a couple dictionary egs (from kenkyusha green goddess): こと酒となるとあの男は実にうるさい. When it comes to drink, he's really fussy [particular]. こと女に関する限り, あの大学者もただの男だ. When it comes to women, that great s...
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2014-11-20, 1:20 pm
    Thread: Confusion about an Indirect-Passive sentence
Post: Confusion about an Indirect-Passive sentence

arupan, I don't think that example with the commas helps us with this sentence. Here, we're dealing with multiple noun modifiers and the first one ends in な. This is different from trying to determ...
Thora The Japanese language 41 7,663 2014-09-22, 1:55 am
    Thread: Confusion about an Indirect-Passive sentence
Post: Confusion about an Indirect-Passive sentence

drdunlap Wrote:yudantaiteki said that 半端な AND ~ような were both modifying もの so that would make being forced to get a girlfriend a silly thing! Oh? This matter is not silly. This matter is not...
Thora The Japanese language 41 7,663 2014-09-22, 1:36 am
    Thread: Confusion about an Indirect-Passive sentence
Post: Confusion about an Indirect-Passive sentence

quanticism Wrote:I initially thought of it like that too. (i.e. "getting forced to get a girlfriend" was a silly thing) But Arupan's post seems to suggest that "getting half forced to get a girlfrien...
Thora The Japanese language 41 7,663 2014-09-22, 1:26 am
    Thread: RTK1 for Non-native English
Post: RTK1 for Non-native English

Fixed the Polish link. Thanks Vempele.
Thora Remembering the Kanji 21 5,434 2014-06-15, 11:33 am
    Thread: Source of coreXk?
Post: Source of coreXk?

I recall from past threads that the Core 6000 sentences were licensed by iknow from Jack Halpern's CJK Dictionary Institute - http://www.cjk.org/cjk/index.htm As lauri_ranta explained, JSensei appa...
Thora Learning resources 19 4,431 2014-05-26, 5:06 pm
    Thread: Waking up with a headache...
Post: Waking up with a headache...

Glad you're feeling better. [edit:removed info about allergy related sinus problem - no longer relevant]
Thora Off topic 23 5,127 2014-05-19, 2:36 pm
    Thread: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version
Post: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version

I see. Sorry. I assumed you had found what you thought was a Core10K deck and were wondering why the words seemed relatively uncommon. I now realize that the OP created both decks, so you're asking he...
Thora Learning resources 348 90,749 2014-05-12, 8:27 pm
    Thread: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version
Post: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version

The description in your link indicates that it is a deck made up of 15,000 words from the so-called Coreplus deck (all the P-labeled words in Edict: more than 20k) which are NOT included in the core10...
Thora Learning resources 348 90,749 2014-05-12, 7:49 pm
    Thread: More talking at a computer in Japanese AKA 噛み祭り
Post: More talking at a computer in Japanese AKA 噛み祭り

I pretty much agree with arupan and nadia's comments and would be interested in talking a bit more about some of the points they raised in more detail. But first, putting the video's content aside f...
Thora Off topic 21 4,090 2014-01-07, 6:21 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Tzadeck Wrote:You don't think there's a lot of overlap? The word いなか gets used in Japanese waaaay more than words like 'countryside' in America, including places that we in America would call suburbs...
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2014-01-07, 3:12 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Don't kanji make things easier to comprehend? ;p There is a proverb 住めば都. As already mentioned, a common explanation is: no matter how inconvenient the place seems at first, if you live there long...
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2013-12-26, 6:09 pm
    Thread: Simple question on past participle (e.g. "have written")
Post: Simple question on past participle (e.g. "have wri...

That's not quite right. Vている has several uses/meanings. 2 distinct uses are: - resultant state (as you describe) - continues in the state resulting from the verb - experiential (resultant) state. T...
Thora The Japanese language 37 9,552 2013-11-28, 8:16 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

vonPeterhof Wrote:Or maybe he's just proudly displaying his Pavee heritage. Okay, now I'm definitely over-thinking this. Nah, that was kinda my point - that raharney seems to me to be overthinking th...
Thora General discussion 856 195,392 2013-10-18, 2:22 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

guehla Wrote:while the mp3s are in their proper folder (name.media beside the corresponding anki deck), they don't actually play. I think with anki2 all media must be in the same "collection.media" fo...
Thora Learning resources 859 243,586 2013-10-18, 1:40 am
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

@raharney Perhaps you should take up you concerns directly with TheIrishPolyglot. Of all the photos he must have from so many years of traveling, the one he selected for his "About" page has him in a ...
Thora General discussion 856 195,392 2013-10-18, 12:57 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Just to clarify: Many Kansai-ben forms are closer to older Japanese - with various and contractions and embellishments. (I find it interesting that it would have been the standard language if Edo hadn...
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2013-10-05, 9:31 pm
    Thread: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?
Post: Benny Lewis Fluent in Japanese in 3 months?

oh, dtcamero ... you're sounding so jealous. Don't be such a hater, darling. I still think you're precious. ;P
Thora General discussion 856 195,392 2013-10-05, 3:28 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Looks like an equivalent of the Standard Japanese contraction …なければ → …なきゃ. Osaka ben? 見てもらわなければならない     もらわなければ  is もらわねば → もらわにゃ        ならない is  ならぬ → ならん
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2013-10-05, 3:22 am
    Thread: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards
Post: Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating An...

First time using epwing2anki. Thanks for this! Unfortunately, I've hit a bit of a wall. It's not able find any dictionary entries or examples in either Edict or 2 different epwing dictionaries I trie...
Thora Learning resources 182 70,559 2013-09-14, 7:13 pm
    Thread: Spanish RTK3 Keywords
Post: Spanish RTK3 Keywords

Indeed! And it was kind of faneca to write it all out for others to use. It might be helpful if these original multilingual versions could be stickied. (Others might be inspired to share even partial...
Thora Remembering the Kanji 110 43,210 2013-08-03, 3:57 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Zgarbas, this response seems like good news! It sounds to me, however, like there might be some uncertainty about the initial 'research student' year in your proposal. I had read "それとも、2年間ではなく別の方法をお考...
Thora The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,808 2013-07-29, 2:39 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

cb4960 Wrote:Currently, R doesn't download the mp3 files so you'll have to press F (or S or X) to download them to the Saved Audio folder. I should probably add an option to automatically save it to a...
Thora Learning resources 859 243,586 2013-07-27, 11:44 am