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  1. No problem. If you're into reading online Japanese and use Firefox, try getting the Rikaichan extension which gives you an awesome mouseover dictionary.

  2. It's not つ that doubles the following letters, it's small tsu (っ), which is used primarily for this purpose. So つも is not mmo but tsumo - mmo is っも. Incidentally you can only use small tsu after another letter, because in Japanese you can only have double letters in the middle of words. Incidentally sometimes small tsu is placed at the end of utterances, especially in things like manga, but this is a less formal convention and indicates a glottal stop, which occurs at the end of some emphasised utterances in Japanese.

  3. I just watched season 1 of BSG and can't help thinking of number 6 as "Ashley." :heh:

  4. Login as someone who can... :wink:

     

    It's just admins and jayseven I think.

  5. Login as someone who can... :wink:

  6. Good for you. :wink:

  7. Yep, they're generally silly though. The split-infinitives one is particularly so - around the 17th century, it became fashionable in England to publish grammars of English, which tended to compare it to Latin grammar (which everyone learnt at school), and generally the more "logically deduced" prescriptive rules there were, the better the grammars sold, so lots of things got made up. For instance, in Latin, you can't split infinitives (because the Latin infinitive is just one word, e.g. amare, "to love,") and at some point it was arbitrarily decided that this should also be the case for English, even though it's got two word infinitives. Which of course makes no sense.

  8. So as not to derail the thread - genuine rules of grammar don't need to be told to native speakers, as they know and follow them already. For instance, nobody has to tell English speakers to put the before, rather than after, nouns. Rules that have to be enforced are therefore not real rules, and are at best style guidelines and at worst pointless (like the beginning sentences with conjunctions one).

  9. I guess Christchurch is the John's of Oxford then... :heh:

  10. Did you hear about Magdalen changing the name of their JCR to Gryffindor? Link here if not. Someone pointed out that this makes Cambridge Durmstrang...

  11. Depends how complex you want the pun to be. Given the way Japanese names works, there are tons of names that could be used, the simplest of which is just juu (十). Note that 10 is juu, not ju, so jun is unrelated however you spell it, and you can also have other readings of 十 that aren't anything like juu, such as to - for example, akito (昭十) which is bright+ten. There are countless others on top of these - what kind of thing are you looking for?

  12. Haha, I've seen ghoti for fish before, but this one is better.

  13. The purple is good, but I'm not convinced by the green...

  14. I was of course just giving myself practice at deleting messages. Yes, that's what I was doing...

  15. :kiss:

     

    (argh, messed up the conversation thingy the first time :heh:)

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