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Also, for those of who are learning or who speak Japanese, what is the most difficult part of Japanese grammar (never mind the writing system, let's focus on the grammar side)? For me the most difficult part in the grammar has been that there are so many like "small pieces of grammar", li...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 5:52 pm It is no longer trivial to watch from the US (I do not "pay" for "streaming services") but I've already forgotten all the other entries and don't care.

They broadcasted it on NBC Peacock. Is this something that's not available to you?

Oh, and in case anyone's interested, I've made another Eurovision quiz:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/25 ... ntest-2023

Heh, what do you say now?

One time in a class at college, someone raised his hand and said something to the teacher. He had to repeat that two more times before she understood him. (I still had no clue what he said after the third time.) He spoke Scanian dialect, and at one point he asked if it was because of his dialect. Sh...

I have a question about mean , as in "gohan means rice". I've noticed that some immigrants, when speaking Swedish, will sometimes use the reverse order and say things like "rice means gohan". This is ungrammical in Swedish; you have to express it like "rice is called gohan&q...

I'm watching BBC News and this is on the TV screen: England teaching unions to team up on strikes 31-Year-Old Colorado Woman Who Became Pregnant With 13-Year-Old Boy’s Baby To Avoid Jail Time Under Plea Deal Huh, that one took a while to figure out. "To" is not marking purpose here, right?

Here's a headline in Swedish: KRISTALLRIKEN

First I was like crystal what...? Because I read it as:

kristall-rike-n
crystal-realm-PL

But what they actually meant was:

kris-tallrik-en
crisis-plate-DEF.C

The article was about how people's eating habits have changed with the inflation.

Hi! I think you need to post some examples, because I have no idea what you're really asking for.

I'm thinking about how to translate the sentence "the land is difficult to cultivate". I'm thinking about something like: {cultivate V land DO } VP NZ COP difficult But there are two problems with this. One is that so far I've only used the nominalizer directly after a verb, not after a VP...

There are two details I can't make up my mind about. One is the masculine suffix. Again. I thought about maybe making it -nik, which is used in Russian and some other Slavic languages. But it seems like this suffix has some other uses besides being just a simple masculinizer. And it's not used just ...

I've never had sarsparilla, but root beer doesn't taste anything like the flavors of mint that mouthwash typically come in to me. Now I'm kind of intrigued to taste your fluoride wash. Well, it's not mint flavored, because I use a mild one. And it's only for fluoride, not for killing bacteria. The ...

I'm trying to come up for a word for "present (V.)" in Omni-kan. I was going to construct it like "front-show", but I already made the word for show be i pota , lit. "make see". So attaching the prefix meaning front to either i or pota is awkward. Because it'd either b...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:51 am名前は「咲葩(イミシメ)」。
Son nom est Imishimé.
"Its name is Imishimé.[/i]

ああ、そうだった。
Aa, sō datta.
Ah, that's it.



ヤルさん：手話はどう？
Yaru-san: Shuwa wa dō?
@jal: What about sign languages?

I have a question for the Americans here. I bought this sarsaparilla drink . I was thinking "now I finally get to know what sarsaparilla tastes like". When I opened the bottle I was taken aback by the smell of dentist clinic. And it tasted like flouride wash. Or a little bit like chewing g...

I'm trying to come up for a word for "present (V.)" in Omni-kan. I was going to construct it like "front-show", but I already made the word for show be i pota , lit. "make see". So attaching the prefix meaning front to either i or pota is awkward. Because it'd either be...

LingEarth wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 10:05 amI'm wondering if any natlang has anything like this, and if the feature has a name?

Interesting system. I don't know of anything quite like this, but that makes sense for an alien language.

ただ 書き言葉を ただ 学ぶことが好きじゃないと思っている？ ( Kakikotoba wo tada manabu koto ga suki janai to omotte iru? The placement of tada was wrong, but I don't know if I know Japanese well enough to be able to explain why. Also, I think it's wrong or unidiomatic to use to omotte iru here. Better to just use suki janai? ...

足りる時が無いと思っている。( Tariru toki ga nai to omotte iru. ) N'ayant pas assez de temps, j'imaginerais. "Not having enough time, I would imagine." I think it would probably be better with jikan instead of toki , because toki refers to a moment or period, while for like the concept of time you'd us...

Lol, it was more the choice of verb and what it implied.