Comments on: Crap Words

By: claytonian

claytonian — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:56:33 +0000

Nicole, my anki used to break when I exported decks, but now that it's a new version, I may be willing to give it a go if you wanna email me. claytonian's last blog post: Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge

By: まゆみ

まゆみ — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:46:44 +0000

Thank you for introducing my site again, Deas. We are around 90 now in the Today’s Top 100 Podcasts for education of the United States. Yay!

I haven’t read it but I knew 問題な日本語 had picked up the word 全然. All right, when some people started to use it as a positive proverb as well, I felt strange. However, as a native Japanese I’d like to say “How many years have passed since then?” もういいじゃん！(もおええやん！in Osaka dialect) haha

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:38:22 +0000

whoops. no. i guess i clicked around - ended up at the hopelessromantic's got on my anki-train of thought and ended up posting it here. apologies. but still. answer my damn question. Nicole's last blog post: Some Snippets & Japanese Jots

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:07:13 +0000

Misplaced comments in the time-space continuum? "That shockwave created a subspace fracture." "Take that, subspace!" Alex's last blog post: Out of Service

By: Deas

Deas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:01:53 +0000

Greg – I know. The refried beans thing threw me for a loop, too. It was a belief that I held for ages. Ha ha. What a way to start your day.

Nicole – Um…Anki? Which post did you comment on? Is this a comment hiccup?

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:58:27 +0000

Ha ha – I suppose you guys are enjoying a bit of schadenfreude at my expense now, huh?

By: Deas

Deas — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:48:58 +0000

Clay & Alex – No! You’re ruining my haughty assumptions about Japanese! My world is collapsing! I reject your reality and substitute my own! (But seriously, I thought I read that in a book! Just goes to show you that you can’t believe everything you read.) Who’d have thought that the day would come when a Wikipedia citation would leave my shameful fraud-of-an-academic carcass on the floor. So much for 2-kyu certification. Woe is me!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:47:59 +0000

am a big fan of the Anki. I have been searching online and can't find any premade decks for 2kyu. I suppose part of the learning is actually MAKING the decks yourself, but... bleeeech. Has any kind soul actually put them out there? Nicole's last blog post: Divorce Can Be Difficult

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:30:44 +0000

>>”I hear the zenzen thing used to be positive anyways. [citation needed]”

According to ja.wikipedia, it was originally used as a positive and negative adverb, but in recent years using it as an affirmative has been labelled incorrect.
“全然（ぜんぜん）は日本語の単語のひとつ。本来『全くを以って然るべき』の意で公用される副詞で肯定にも否定にも用いられるが、近年肯定に用いるのは誤りであると称してたびたび話題になる。”

全然という言葉は、肯定用法でも否定用法でも全然大丈夫だそうです。

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By: claytonian

claytonian — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:14:02 +0000

He would be enjoying feelings of schadenfreude if he indeed was. Yabai is just like bad. Bad ass. Bad grades. I hear the zenzen thing used to be positive anyways. [citation needed] claytonian's last blog post: Avocado coal walking manga irrelevance!