Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Er, yeah....sorry 'bout that.
Did I say "prickly little hairs"?
Sorry, I meant to say "hairy little ...", oh never mind ...
Just kidding
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Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Er, yeah....sorry 'bout that.
Yokohammer wrote:Did I say "prickly little hairs"?
Sorry, I meant to say "hairy little ...", oh never mind ...
Just kidding
Mike Oxlong wrote:And where erai means "to be tired". Not like those freaks in Hokkaido saying kowai all the time after a long day.
6810 wrote:Indeed, here too on the Aichi-side of the Kiso, to be erai is to be tired, in fact Chubu has some major ~ben drift across the borders with proximity to Kansai and what not...
Yokohammer wrote:Did I say "prickly little hairs"?
Sorry, I meant to say "hairy little ...", oh never mind ...
Just kidding
Saria wrote:--waaaarrgaaaarblllll-(Go have a look at the Mitsubishi logo, or the origin of the JR Suica card, those are the best ones I can think of at the moment)--waaaaarrrrrgarrrblllllllll
Saria wrote:As mentioned before, I am not here to tell you that you were wrong, but rather that you are a bunch of narrow-minded kids (mentally), that jump any opportunity to pick a fight if their pride is hurt.
omae mona wrote:Well, you spelled "practicing" the wrong way.
Saria wrote:...you are a bunch of narrow-minded kids (mentally)
Saria wrote:As mentioned before, I am not here to tell you that you were wrong, but rather that you are a bunch of narrow-minded kids (mentally), that jump any opportunity to pick a fight if their pride is hurt.
BigInJapan wrote:Nope, "practising" actually is the correct spelling (for me, and an whole lot of other non-Americans out there).
FYI - http://www.world-english.org/practise_practice.htm
Saria wrote:There is never one answer to liguistic issues. If there was, we would still be practising Prescriptivism as we did 300 years ago.
I am not here to argue with a couple of Americans that probably lived in Japan for some time and believe they have a better command of the language than a native speaker.
As mentioned before, I am not here to tell you that you were wrong, but rather that you are a bunch of narrow-minded kids (mentally), that jump any opportunity to pick a fight if their pride is hurt.
yarichin01 wrote:Calling me a prescriptivist is the most laughable shit I've heard in a long time.
First, I have a BA and MA in Ling. from a functional camp. I have forgot more about linguistic analysis than you have ever known. I studied directly under Talmy Givon. If you don't know who that is, you don't know shit about linguistics.
Second, I have done syntactic-semantic and phonological analysis on literally hundreds of languages and more often than THERE IS one answer to a linguistic issue. Let me guess, you have a few years of Japanese under your belt and recently took Intro to Linguistic Analysis. So now you're fucking expert. Am I close?
BTW I gave my analysis of your example only after consulting my wife who is a Japanese instructor by trade. I only commented on the syntactic structure, nothing else.
Finally, I, like many posters here, have lived a life intertwined with Japanese society for more than decade and have put my rose colored Wapanese glasses down a long time ago. So go back to Gaijinpot and project your insecurities on the assholes over there. Thank you.
Coligny wrote:I haz readed a book without picshure once, we can be friendz ?
Mike Oxlong wrote:When you boil down her last rant to its bare essentials, she basically called us all "FGs". I take it as rather a compliment...
yarichin01 wrote:That depends, with or without benefits?
IparryU wrote:Sankyuuu!
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Well, I'm not a cunning linguist, but I agree with what Yarichin said....
Samurai_Jerk wrote:As a cunt and a linguist and masturbater I have to agree with Yarichin too.
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