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Skeptic calling out to all Heisig fans July 15, 2007
Posted in Learning & Resources, プチポスト.
65 comments

Chobi: Not sure if this is righ, but 私がつまらない sounds like something that would be use in this type of situation (you...
Jonathan: I just wanted to suggest a great app for iPhone / iPod touch that might benefit your readers. It’s...
Gustavo Valdez: Can you tell use more about the “Chomskyan concept of the null subject ” please? Thanks...
Alex: 退屈だ！ Going into a bit of linguistics may help students of Japanese. The Chomskyan concept of the null subject...
Beowulf Lee: Hey Tae, the best explanation I’ve seen of は and が was from Jay Rubin’s book “Making...
g..k..s..t..r: Maybe instead of つまらない use たいくつする to say that someone is bored, not boring?
Rob: Pffff I have reached this blog quite late, but whatever. I think there are loads of uses of ‘いい’ that...
Sara: Oh, i forgot.. if someone is searching for reading resources, this site http://nihongo-dekimasu.blogsp ot.com/...
Sara: Tae Kim.. Thank you so much for the grammar guide. I’m feeling pretty comfortable with は and が in fact,...
Micah: Right, what I meant was that, although Xamuel said that 「つまらないよ！」was like “Boring!”, that word...
Florian: No need to add anything. 「うらやましい」 works perfectly fine on its own. As Tae Kim said, “It is important...
Micah: Xamuel, that might work nicely for 「つまらないよ！」、but what about 「うらやましいよ！」？ “Jealous!” sounds a bit...
Xamuel: Incidentally, it’s worth mentioning that if you want to say the party’s boring, it’s not...
Xamuel: Maybe there’s something deep and profound hidden here… people who are bored tend to be boring,...
taekk: Won’t really make a difference. Commas are hard to see in conversations.
Denys: I think what you are saying is very important! Tae Kim, is 私は、つまらない (with a true stop) more precise or would...
Nick: 私は未だ分からない As for me I still don’t understand. haha, no but really I’ve been studying for a year and...
Leonardo Boiko: And if someone is reading this and is still confused: don’t worry, just keep studying Japanese....
taekk: Interesting. Shows up fine here. I’m not changing it…
Leonardo Boiko: Haha, for some reason the “fullwidth colon” character after ‘A’ or ‘B’ at twitter displays as an...
taekk: Thanks, I updated the rules with the user name.
Xamuel: Have replyers put “@XamuelA” in their reply (replace “XamuelA” with the Tae Kim...
taekk: I connected it to my personal account in buzz. Not sure what that does though.
taekk: Good idea, maybe put all meta discussion in a hash code.
Stephen: What if you added a # to your tweets, like #kimchi物語. then everyone can follow all the related posts!
taekk: I can still see replies of people I’m not following.
taekk: That could be true, I’m still new to twitter. I can probably retweet any interesting replies, I think.
Elliott: but we won’t be able to see other people’s replies to you unless we are following them?...
Andini Rizky: なんですか、それ。初耳です。新しいものが次々と出てきてますね。ついったーやフェースブックとかまだ使いこなせてないのに。一応アカウント名だけ取得します。やってみて、面白くなかっ...
nacest: Also, it looks like you’re not following anybody… maybe I’m a little confused about how you...
nacest: I like the idea, but how do people know if someone else they’re not following tweeted the continuation...
David: Are you posting (linking from twitter) too in buzz?
Gustavo Valdez: Twitter is great for posting small random ideas, like something you wanna say but it’s not long...
taekk: It’s jut a fun experiment I wanted to try, nothing major.
Micah: Crap, does this mean I have to make a twitter account now?
Funbit: Ahh… you too I hope you’ll continue posting here too, because I personally hate twitters.
Topaz: Tae – I love this series. I have been thinking about making something like this for a long time, but as...
Ken: So how do you order extras? Is it something like ’shio ramen, negi tsuki’? I’ve never been...
Dan: I just tried a Google image search for “spiral fish cake” and I also got quite a few positive hits.
Tim: What’s the Japanese for the different broth types? I absolutely hate the Japanese-style fish broth but I...
Leonardo Boiko: I’m not much of a lamen man… I like soba too much, and udon second, so I rarely order lamen. At least...
laiya: How about http://www.flickr.com/search/? w=all&q=naruto+fish+cake&a mp;m=text for ナルト?
taekk: It’s supposed to have built-in a sort of page rank for twitter to filter out the chaff.
Xamuel: I’m trying to understand what exactly makes this different from Twitter– ie, what new value does...
Paul: Nah, not necessarily Jonadab. Its not a matter of how much more quality they are, restaurants in Japan just...
Jonadab the Unsightly One: > You’re not obligated to say much… You do however > need to understand a...
jack: A much later response than you’d prefer, I’m sure, but this is a good question. 出来る is considered...
jack: Great topic. One thing I would make sure to mention is that often the above phrases get put into volitional...
taekk: Unfortunately, no.
rswood: Do you have an iPhone, Touch or other iPod that can use “Mikey”? http://www.bluemic.com/mik...

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