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    Thread: Inquiry on feasibility/usefulness of my project
Post: Inquiry on feasibility/usefulness of my project

toshiromiballza Wrote:headphone_child Wrote:The particles field contains too much data for one column, which limits the utility of that data (this particular issue could be fixed by using multiple tab...
headphone_child Learning resources 37 27,330 2014-04-28, 8:22 pm
    Thread: Inquiry on feasibility/usefulness of my project
Post: Inquiry on feasibility/usefulness of my project

toshiromiballza Wrote:headphone_child Wrote:I'm a web developer and I'd be able to work on this if I'm available for work at the time you're ready to hire someone, but I'm on east coast USA so I'm gue...
headphone_child Learning resources 37 27,330 2014-04-28, 5:35 pm
    Thread: Inquiry on feasibility/usefulness of my project
Post: Inquiry on feasibility/usefulness of my project

Ambitious project, hopefully this happens. I'm a web developer and I'd be able to work on this if I'm available for work at the time you're ready to hire someone, but I'm on east coast USA so I'm gues...
headphone_child Learning resources 37 27,330 2014-04-28, 11:23 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Thanks Vemplete, yudantaiteki, and drdunlap. The example sentences are especially helpful. I definitely read なせる as potential at first, so I'll be mentally substituting なしている into that idiom from now ...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2014-03-04, 2:36 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I'm having some trouble with a phase containing 成せる業 (なせるわざ). According to this, I guess it literally means "an act only X can do" or "behavior particular to X". So for example, 神の成せる業 could mean an "...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2014-03-02, 4:58 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade and/or Redesign
Post: Forum Upgrade and/or Redesign

headphone_child Wrote:For searching Japanese in punBB, it seems like there's a solution, although I don't know how well it works. It seems to require going through a Yahoo JP Web API, so that would ma...
headphone_child General discussion 50 19,104 2013-12-29, 8:51 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade and/or Redesign
Post: Forum Upgrade and/or Redesign

For searching Japanese in punBB, it seems like there's a solution, although I don't know how well it works. It seems to require going through a Yahoo JP Web API, so that would make it slower than a no...
headphone_child General discussion 50 19,104 2013-12-26, 5:35 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

yudantaiteki Wrote:Xにする means "decide on X" or "make something X". Based on the context it sounds like すんで should be some kind of connector meaning something like "In that case", but I don't know wha...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-12-26, 1:37 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

s0apgun Wrote:オレ達が何のために命を使うのかをな Can someone explain what the をな at the end of this sentence means? Its popped up a couple times in a manga I'm reading. Thanks! Maybe a full translation of the sentenc...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-12-24, 4:28 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I wasn't sure about 生暖かく either, but the whole expression is explained here on chiebukuro: http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/...1311039398 looks like it's meant to be a more neutral version of...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-12-21, 12:29 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I quote an earlier post of mine regarding 一応. Unfortunately it's not very concise: ---------- A common English translation of 一応 is "for now", which does work sometimes, but definitely not always. L...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-09-23, 6:38 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Xanpakuto Wrote:誰か 見守ってくれてる Someone is watching you... Whats the 〜てくれる form? short for ~てくれている which breaks down to ~て・くれて・いる
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-08-19, 11:14 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

kudokupo Wrote:「いい教訓になっただろ。今度から大切なテープはちゃんとツメ折っておけよ」 "It's a good lesson for you, isn't it? Next time, set your important tapes as read-only." I don't understand ツメ折って. Can anyone help? "break off the...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-08-05, 7:25 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Trying to read some handwriting -- [Image: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5969/qw5z.png] くやしくも、 海賊はただ 逮捕、〇〇 can someone help with the last two characters? edit -- maybe 投獄?
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-08-03, 1:44 pm
    Thread: Gaming RSS Feed, Smaller than Famitsu?
Post: Gaming RSS Feed, Smaller than Famitsu?

I follow http://blog.esuteru.com/ which is games, anime, manga, and some random stuff.
headphone_child Learning resources 2 946 2013-08-01, 11:22 am
    Thread: Any Active Japanese learner's IRC channels?
Post: Any Active Japanese learner's IRC channels?

There's one in here: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=3649 :)
headphone_child Learning resources 1 681 2013-08-01, 10:16 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Based on the context, 「繰り返すが, 間違っても刀を破壊してくれるな。そんな事をされては第1話で話が終わってしまう」 "...if you do, the story will end at chapter 1" 「第1話って, 本でも書くつもりかよ?」 "'chapter 1'? are you gonna write a book or something?" Tai...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-06-27, 7:48 am
    Thread: Advice on On and Kun Readings?
Post: Advice on On and Kun Readings?

Agree with Haych. In short, there's no need to study readings in isolation. Just learn them as you learn words, which you can do after RTK. I wrote this in another post: headphone_child Wrote:It's no...
headphone_child The Japanese language 17 7,380 2013-05-25, 12:37 pm
    Thread: Please help me translate this literally into English
Post: Please help me translate this literally into Engli...

Here is a recent survey about this topic. They surveyed about 1000 girls through the anonymous smartphone BBS "GIRL'S TALK". That it's accessed by smartphones may give a rough idea of the demographi...
headphone_child The Japanese language 53 6,468 2013-05-05, 12:10 pm
    Thread: Are there any game/art community forums in Japan?
Post: Are there any game/art community forums in Japan?

Right. 2ch board for retro: http://kohada.2ch.net/retro/ and for tcg: http://anago.2ch.net/tcg/ I'm not too crazy about 2ch though... would be interesting to see what other options are out there. Th...
headphone_child General discussion 21 4,731 2013-05-04, 12:04 pm
    Thread: Are there any game/art community forums in Japan?
Post: Are there any game/art community forums in Japan?

uisukii Wrote:ファブリス Wrote:uisukii Wrote:http://bit.ly/160kFc5 I deleted your previous post because it doesn't help at all. This doesn't either. If your post was deleted it was for a reason. Also URL s...
headphone_child General discussion 21 4,731 2013-05-02, 7:57 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

HonyakuJoshua Wrote:headphone_child Wrote:HonyakuJoshua Wrote:have you got a better translation for it please? have more context? 合わせて can be pretty broad. yeah - 【ルームタイプ】は、シーンに合わせて選べる5タイプ。 im guessi...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-04-30, 12:45 pm
    Thread: How do you get out of a rut?
Post: How do you get out of a rut?

Onara Wrote:But I don't see why I shouldn't learn on and kun readings? I mean... Isn't it easier to know them instead of being limited to just ready-made words? It's not that you shouldn't learn 音 and...
headphone_child The Japanese language 20 5,510 2013-04-30, 12:10 pm
    Thread: Request/help Cowboy Bebop Transcripts
Post: Request/help Cowboy Bebop Transcripts

tools > encoding > shift jis
headphone_child Learning resources 6 1,174 2013-04-29, 10:28 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

HonyakuJoshua Wrote:have you got a better translation for it please? have more context? 合わせて can be pretty broad. found an example via google: 様々なシーンに合わせて制作したサンプル作品です (from here) in that context, it...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-04-29, 8:56 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:howtwosavealif3 Wrote:no 付く ismore popular but probably the kana is popular than 付く though 付く is the most popular kanji for the word つく, but I don't believe it is ...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-04-23, 7:26 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:か‐ね [連語]《終助詞「か」+終助詞「ね」》 1 疑いや不審を抱きながら、念を押す意を表す。「それは本当のこと―」 2 質問をする意を表す。「元気―」 3 (「どうして…かね」などの形で)詰問や非難の意を表す。「どうしてそんなことをやるの―」 ◆主として目下の者に対して用いる。 That covers the grammatical part ...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-04-21, 9:53 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Yeah, it's "No one could oppose his proposal" and not the other way around. Check out some examples on alc. howtwosavealif3 Wrote:yep.. here's j dictionary entry on that 3 (下に打消しの語を伴って)例外なく全部である意を表す。...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-04-13, 9:39 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

TheVinster Wrote:「裏側には、自分の頼みごとが断られるわけがない、とういう確信じみたものも隠れていて、私は好ましくは感じなかった。」 This is the latter half of a sentence, and while I am confident in my understanding of it I'd like someone to give me their ...
headphone_child The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,570 2013-03-28, 5:22 pm
    Thread: Confused by english multiple meanings
Post: Confused by english multiple meanings

Stian Wrote:If you've started learning vocabulary, you can also use the Japanese words to help you recall the kanji. Yes, this. This helped me with the harder kanji more than anything else by far. And...
headphone_child Remembering the Kanji 10 3,022 2013-03-27, 5:50 pm