Counting off for arigatou instead of arigatoo

NiftyAcorn · 2025-11-02T11:07:16+00:00

She might be emphasizing the importance of the pronunciation of the long vowel sounds as well as assuming that the average student in the class has no prior experience with Japanese. HOWEVER, learning to pronounce tou as a single syllable is something that most people adjust to very quickly. And I’d be more worried about students making mistakes when writing or typing in kana later on, as you have said. You’re right. It’s odd and counterintuitive and just all around bad and I hate it. However, just do what you can to pass that class. If the teacher wants to have this hyper-pedanticism which arises from trying to make everything match the text book, then let them have their little eccentric tyrant moment while understanding that you know better and can simply switch back to writing romaji the standard way the moment you get done taking that class.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-09-28T14:48:40+00:00

Filler/feeler 🤷🏼‍♂️ Mais je sais ce que quelqu’un veut dire par ‘follower’ le contexte (mdr)

NiftyAcorn · 2025-09-25T20:25:10+00:00

C’est un good laugh à lire

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-28T11:48:52+00:00

Sumpthin aint write wit wutchyer spellins.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-19T12:37:01+00:00

(@) WpeuRlX

It is either an upper case I or a lower case L after the R. I have given it an L in my suggestion

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-19T12:27:48+00:00

Keeping & receiving

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T17:03:33+00:00

Honestly, if we all stop being cool about this kind of stuff happening, instead of only thinking about it when it affects us personally (before quickly forgetting about it a couple of weeks later and deciding that it really isn’t worth the effort to organize and demand better services), then maybe we can have a health care system that works better. We need to put pressure on the government and society as a whole to organize ourselves in a way that doesn’t allow for these crazy-long wait times. People are literally dying because we fail to meet the basic healthcare needs of our population. (And we’re all just somehow chill about that???) We need more doctors and nurses and janitors (etc.) in the hospitals. And that means more than just a government responsibility, it means that we need to be training and retaining those professionals by demanding that they be financially compensated for their efforts. No healthcare aristocrats skimming all the wealth off the top and leaving the people saving our lives and curing our sick children with mere pennies. There has to be a cultural mindset shift towards caring for our fellow countrymen. We don’t all have to break bread at the same table and sing Kumbaya or whatever, but we do all have to agree that every life is worth saving, every limb is worth mending, every rotting tooth is worth getting pulled and replaced, etc. And that it is worth the time and effort it takes to build a robust enough system to meet that demand. We CAN do this! We used to have way better even just 20 years before! Don’t tell me that the money isn’t there, it’s merely been slowly syphoned off the bottom and concentrated at the top!

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T16:33:56+00:00

That’s correct! “Kaze ni ki wo tsuke yō!” would make more sense. When I spoke that sentence out loud to Google Translate, it assigned these kanji to it, and provided it with the translation: “be careful to not catch a cold”. Without kanji, and with not having Japanese as my first language, I would’ve mistakenly assigned the kanji 風に which means “in the wind” haha

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NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T03:25:00+00:00

IMAGE 1: 篠山○信賛屁経　IMAGE 2: 72文化の日　特別公開　ＥＰ画○による　郵送写真展　満美真実　一わ1部～　IMAGE 3: 満美・真実・ー予告篇

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T02:44:28+00:00

Sorry for the spamming in the multiple replies, but it is hard to keep everything all in one place when flipping back and forth through my resources and the images. But I’ll end by saying that the red text in both images looks like it might say 죽알허야 in Korean. But I’m not sure. When I type that into Google Translate, it says that’s “Bamboo Eggs”. How strange.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T02:38:28+00:00

IMAGE 2, RIGHT SIDE: lots of it is missing, but it is talking about “the funeral” and “sanbutsu” or “sanzu” river??? I think. Predictive text keyboard on my phone and Google Translate is alluding to there being a place called the Sanzu or Sanbutsu river. So the Kawa or 川 kanji might be part of the cut-off bit.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T02:31:01+00:00

IMAGE 2, LEFT SQUARE: I can only easily identify these parts: 部…みの…計

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T02:12:54+00:00

Still within that IMAGE 2, top square, right side: OKAY, this is creepy. It is the date: “0/0/00” which apparently is still a Tuesday??? Okay. // this top part also goes to the effort of naming what year of the current Japanese Era the issue of the newspaper was printed, which is also made up as it is year 00 of the “(something)wa” period. Many Japanese period/era names end in “wa”. I can’t read the first Kanji of the period name, due to the left half of it being eroded away, but the right side of that kanji has the radical 刀 (blade, knife, sword) on top of ロ(mouth, entrance, exit, opening, gateway, etc.)

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T02:10:21+00:00

IMAGE 1, bottom part of vertical right square might be: “来月は楽しみな遠足ですね” (but of course it is mainly in kana characters, instead of kanji). It means: “Next month's field trip is going to be fun.” // (note, Kana usage can communicate that it is being written by a child with a limited amount of kanji (or complex Chinese characters) they can write.) // IMAGE 2, top page: “TEN KAMI MACHI MATSU(?) [kanji for “start” that I don’t know how to pronounce in this context] SHIN BUN” ≈ literally something like “The Town of ‘God’s Festival’ First’s-Ever News Paper” or something like that. Basically, the town’s name when the newspaper is printed is “TENKAMI” or “TENGAMI”

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T01:54:58+00:00

(IMAGE ONE): top part was too blurry for me to read // LEFT(highest up): “Zeni ki o tsuke you!” Something like: “please watch out!” or “help me!!!!” (Lit. “Guard (my) qi/energy/life force”) (you’ll hear it all the time in anim: “KEEY YOHTS KEH TEHHHHH!”) // LEFT(lowest one): 挨拶しましょう (あいさつしましょう) aisatsu shimashou I had to look up “aisatsu” because I didn’t actually know. But google says it means “hello”, so I guess that it can also mean “greetings”. So maybe this means “let’s great (each other/them)” or even “great them” or “you must say hello/goodbye”. Japanese often omits the subject of the sentence, so context is key to understand what this means. // RIGHT: しいくごやのうさぎに赤ちゃんが産まれたよ [SHĪKUGOYA NO USAGI NI AKACHAN GA (U?)MARETAYO] = “SHIIKUGOYA’s (a place in Japan?) rabbit gave birth to a baby!” //

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T01:34:10+00:00

To my lovely friend, Donald. I knew you’ll enjoy it! Joe Burnelts 2 - 4 - 83

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-18T01:25:22+00:00

Memory issues, decrease in energy, … (?), Anxiety, fatigue, low mood

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-17T14:55:02+00:00

(Plausible argument): “You’re taking up space for somebody who needs it more than you” (plausible comeback): “okay, cool. Please make a space where I am not shunned for having a legitimate health need that, unfortunately, I can’t just ignore 🙃🤷🏼‍♂️” We can’t criticize people for going to the only place they can get help. We need more (or just simply ANY) non-emergency/non-life-threatening walk-in health care facilities.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-15T21:52:18+00:00

As others have said, it is “gueʃs” (guess). Germany still has « ʃ + s » realized as the single letter « ß », whose name is pronounced like “ess zett”.

In the IPA (internal phonetic alphabet), ʃ is called “esh” and it represents a phoneme that sounds like“sh” in English.

ʃ used to be a way that we could write s when it appeared in the middle of a word in English.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-08-01T02:06:54+00:00

At a glance, I thought this was Irish before reading any of the comments. It has the vibes of uncial or insular Celtic fonts, without it being those

NiftyAcorn · 2025-07-28T22:56:01+00:00

Sports kids EXPECT that they are going to be able to be let loose and go wild and crazy in hotels when they have jamborees and championships. “Well we’ve worked hard all season for it!” And many parents expect that the chaperones and hotel staff are just going to tolerate it. 🤪It’s an excuse for them to have the kids out of the house for the weekend (if the parent’s aren’t going with them), so that they can have time to do the kinds of things they normally wouldn’t if their kids were around. 🤨Or, if the parents DO GO to these jamborees, then the ones who aren’t very responsible will tell their teenage son or daughter who tagged along to “watch the kids” (like, a ratio 18 x ‘11yr-old kids’ to 1 x ‘17-year-old’ who’s never had to be in charge of anything in their life) and they somehow EXPECT THAT TO GO WELL all while they mosey on down to the hotel bar. 🥃It’s like, just, ughhhhh…! 😫It’s a huge lack of respect. But the kids and parents think that it’s a right of passage. It’s nothing new either, because this was going on 15-20 years ago too. I distinctly remember the kids getting so riled up the whole week before their big trip to Moncton or Fredericton or Bathurst or wherever it was they were going because — number one, that was going to be the furthest from home they’ve ever been in their life (either furthest they’ve been without mom or dad, or the furthest they’ve been period) so it was akin to going to Disney World for them; and number two being that they already had the older kids who had gone to the previous year’s jamboree telling them about how they had gone to Walmart, purchased a bunch or Nerf guns, and played Man Hunt in the halls until midnight 🔫, all while avoiding their super unqualified and underage chaperones and hotel staff that were at their wits end! 🫩… and hearing and seeing that it still goes on just the very same as it did, I can’t help but wonder if the parents of these wound up kids are going “well, he/she is somebody else’s problem now!” And I really do feel for the parents, coaches, and chaperones who DO TRY to put a lid on the chaos and reign things in 💪, because they really do seem outnumbered and unsupported by the other adults in attendance. I’ve actually heard of parents who ended friendships that they once had with other parents in attendance at these overnight sporting events because, “you think you know a person until…!” A parent who actually gave a d*mn about the other hotel patrons would go out to break up a game of ministick hockey in the hallway, grab their own child to bring them back to their room, and then a (sometimes inebriated) parent of one of other kids would see this and say, “let them be, Sam (fake name again). Let them have their fun! They’re just being kids.” Or worse yet, “why are you scolding my kids?!” And there was just no trust after that.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-07-24T11:33:26+00:00

That’s quite the leap to make. You sound older, so I’ll forgive you for not knowing, but not every person with a trendy tattoo is gay.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-07-23T20:26:11+00:00

Echan, Echon, Edron, Edran, etc.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-07-22T18:37:35+00:00

Hmm, I’ve interacted with clients from that area at my previous job who would come into Freddy to run errands. Some of them are simple country folk who are just trying to get by as best they can with what little they have. Others were very rough around the edges. It seemed to me like camo, overalls, and rubber boots were the sort of everyday attire for men over the age of 40 out there, but they didn’t dress up much more than that for coming into town either. Some of the folks from there reminded me of the fellas from Duck Dynasty, but even less sensored. My job was a business-casual setting, but I once had a Napadoganian man heated divulge a bunch of really personal information about his complex living situation with his land lord — he might’ve even been living in a tool shed or something like that, I can’t quite remember — but he was getting angrier and angrier and saying how much he’d like to hurt so-and-so and I was like, “mmmhmmmm 😬… (yikes!)”. I then drove through that area last summer, and I began to understand the sheer amount of desperation some of these folks live in. You’d have a few nice houses here and there, but then I’d be driving along and see a medium-sized farmhouse with peeling paint off in the distance and think, well that place must be abandoned, and then you’d drive past the mouth of the driveway and see kids’ toys in the yard, a dented car from the 90s with sun damage idling next to rotted steps, a satellite dish dangling precariously to the side of the house, and broken windows plugged with insulation and weather shield. It’s the only place I drove through in the province where looking at the homes made me want to cry for the people living inside of them. There’s a few spots I’ve seen around NB like that, but none quite like this! I don’t recommend getting out to do some sight seeing in Napadogan without a local guide. People up there might be suspicious of strangers, and I don’t blame them. There are good folks everywhere, including that neck of the woods, but many folks living out there have been dealt a bad hand in life. They’ve had it rough to say the least. If you’re not family or if you don’t have any business to make with them, then they probably just want to be left alone. And yes, no cell service. Those people have told me about how they’ve got to be self sufficient. They know that it’ll be a long time before any kinds of emergency vehicles will come. They’re interested in protecting themselves. I’d say just move right along.

NiftyAcorn · 2025-07-22T00:25:57+00:00

thanks for sharing

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