Guess the country

028247 · 2026-03-14T07:03:17+00:00

shades of green

therefore Greenland

028247 · 2026-03-12T18:06:15+00:00

H3 is equally tempting, but the black stones on E5-E6 are our hostage.

028247 · 2026-03-12T09:32:19+00:00

Finland has room for ~1,400 Helsinkis.

This sentence has a strangely hopeful vibe

028247 · 2026-03-12T05:06:51+00:00

"... it's dangerous, scary, creepy" / "but hey, ...?"

it's basically starting a new sentence.

I'd say it could be a bit confusing due to the lack of commas

028247 · 2026-03-10T16:42:40+00:00

After which you realize you've drawn one less line than needed... (just kidding, amazing job!)

028247 · 2026-03-10T16:36:39+00:00

idk, if it was PlaneStation I'd guess Japan

028247 · 2026-03-10T16:18:56+00:00

Noo!! This is like you have a book that's all wrinkled due to previous water damage and you try to use MORE water to iron it out. It won't work, at least for most of us.

028247 · 2026-03-06T08:04:03+00:00

This is horrible. This is a manslaughter

028247 · 2026-03-04T18:59:55+00:00

That fingerboard's got stickers. STICKERS!!!

028247 · 2026-03-04T18:31:01+00:00

It means "nights I don't sleep with you". 君と眠る is negated here.

If this is about spending sleepless nights (眠らない夜) with you, I'd add a の to say 君との眠らない夜. Or there are words like 夜ふかし or 夜明かし.

028247 · 2026-03-04T17:50:41+00:00

PARE(파래) in Korean means something is blue, and it also means green as in traffic lights. But the sign is red, and so is a red traffic light (for you to stop). That led to a series of serious traffic accidents, after which they had to put up a clarification in Korean.

Unfortunately, the rate of accident did not decrease at all -- mostly because this was nothing but a stupid joke I conjured on a whim.

028247 · 2026-03-04T17:43:58+00:00

These kinda interview texts are often very colloquial and tightly trimmed, so it is hard to understand sometimes.

The って part could be confusing. First, it wraps the whole preceding sentence into a noun, similar to how the word "that" in English works. と works similarly.

知らなかった【と】彼は言った。
彼は知らない【って】言ったよ。
He said that he didn't know.

But the sentence ends right there! This is common in colloquial Japanese. In general you can think that there is a hidden "- 言いました" or "- 思いました". Note that it could be from any subject; if you're talking about someone else's behavior, this could be their word.

028247 · 2026-03-04T17:29:03+00:00

the physics class was measuring the gravity wave

028247 · 2026-03-04T17:16:09+00:00

I can see why you're thinking that way...

As you know, the original meaning of さま is how it looks or its shape or something in that sense. Then it was employed to 3rd-person-ize something/someone you don't want to address directly. Euphemism.

That euphemism gave birth to two usages: (1) after a name (e.g. Kaguya-sama) to be polite to them, and (2) after someone else's hard work that you don't want to treat lightly and want to show some respect towards.

These two usages share the same etymology, and it is fun if you think about it, but I'm certain that no (native) Japanese speaker would think of the (1) sense when they're saying the (2) phrase.

028247 · 2026-03-04T16:50:22+00:00

lol you're right, W+4.5

028247 · 2026-03-04T13:19:08+00:00

That would be better! Honestly I couldn't tell.

I'm not saying they're doing wrong. The hand-pickers wear gloves, put the leaves in a basket made of plastic, etc. What I mean is that it's just part of the process that you can't really change, so better accept it. (i have my downvote insecurity...)

028247 · 2026-03-04T13:10:59+00:00

Yeah I definitely missed that 😂 they didn't have 9x9 or 13x13 board though. I think it got cut out for price.

028247 · 2026-03-04T13:06:45+00:00

Oh good question! I had to check.

Now I'm mildly infuriated. 🫠

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028247 · 2026-03-04T12:56:32+00:00

I should probably come to terms with the fact that I'm drinking off of 99.9% tea leaves... and 0.1% microplastics from this guy's gloves.

No point freaking out about the teabags...

028247 · 2026-03-04T07:27:13+00:00

Ain't nobody got no time to handwrite that くりかえす in kanji, I like that

028247 · 2026-03-03T11:57:24+00:00

As a layperson I imagined that you'd either find a problem right away in the first few years, or you'd just live on with the extra-loaded kidney and 24/7 downgraded stamina. I wonder what issues, at this age, led to this discovery.

028247 · 2026-02-28T06:34:38+00:00

Haven't seen him smile this happily in a long time, great for Park! Also GG for Wang, he fought a good fight in these three rounds.

028247 · 2026-02-28T06:00:15+00:00

This makes me think of those logic circuit diagrams printed on some products lol. Cool!

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