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Hi...
Can any1 please translate the word Blood in Japanese character???

Thank your very much for the help. I need that for my design work :)

xo

Hi!

I have to decide a topic for my thirty page paper and since I have to ditch "Private Speech" I was thinking about "kanji." Sadly, I do not know any specifics...any ideas? Anyone write a thirty page paper before on a Japanese topic?

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http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

I found the above URL and wondered if there are any examples of this in Japanese?

Hello all!

One of my elements in determining what college I want to attend for my M.A. (if I even get there) is if one needs ANOTHER language (if not for the college's linguistics program, then their Japanese Program). ( Read more...Collapse )

I was curious about this too, so I made an entry ( Read more...Collapse )

Hello, everyone!

Next semester, I have to do a big 10-30 paper for a 3 credit class, which is not my senior project for college.

I am minoring in linguistics and creative writing and am a Japanese major.

Any ideas? I was thinking maybe doing something on "private speech," but do not know very much about it, save some articles I have read.
I have my alma mater (high school) by where I live, so I may be able to do some research there, along with some from my college.

???

Thank you very much!

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(Excuse my romaaji).

Today in linguistics class, I was at odds when a fellow Japanese language peer. We were speaking about if languages always use the stative "to be" (desu). Russian does not. ( Read more...Collapse )

Here, I was replying to a message, then saw something more:

You don't use kore/sore/etc for people, as far as I know. :/

So I put:

What if something was encoded as "inanimate?" Like a woman, even though they are not, in Japanese. Or, what if a rock was animate? Does animacy have any role?

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I'm doing an independent study in linguistics.
My topic is Abbreviated Loanwords in Japanese.
Most of my information so far has come from this article. But it seems to leave more questions than it answers.

One of the biggest questions it seems to leave is: Why do some words get material cut from the right side of the word ("terebi" from "terebizyon"), some words from the left ("baito" from arubaito") and some have parts of the middle cut out ("torapen" for "toransuperansii")?

Any insights on this or comments on anything on the subject?