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Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. To be honest, I know of no such examples, but I am not particularly knowledgeable about Chinese tones. The Chinese readings of individual characters themselves in Japanese do not carry pitch information unless the Chinese reading of a character can stand ...

I figured I'd post to say that on Reddit, I was told it really is just "[number]番のロッカー" but the user also explained that there's a nuance difference from "[number]番目のロッカー", that the the former may be more likely to actually have a number on it while the latter may be more likely to refer to a locke...

I think you're misunderstanding the basis of my argument. The primary basis of my argument is verbs like 帰る káeru and 入る háiru , which have the accent on the third-to-last mora even though they belong to an accent category that normally places the accent on the second-to-last mora in the dictionary...

Maybe my argument was flawed, so let me try explaining in a different way. From what I read, GrandPiano's premise is that, of the 25 possible two-vowel sequences in Japanese, 21 (or 22) are to be considered "as two monophthongs in hiatus", while the remaining four (or three) (/ai/, /ae/, and /oi/, a...

Here are a few of the "bad scripts" from the "how to design your own script" thread: As you can see, I'm not really concerned with how efficient the Illustrator geometry is, as long as it produces the visual result I'm looking for, since I'm just going to rasterize it anyway. http://www.vgfun.net/le...

Here is an example of my Nandut script. I'll explain some of what I did. First of all, just applying a calligraphic brush and calling it a day can often make it look a little boring (not always). In this case, I wanted more variation in the width of certain strokes, so I layered paths in certain pla...

One might bring up apparent counterexamples like 考える kangaéru "to think, to consider", 老いる oíru "to grow old", and 強いる shiíru "to compel". Based on these verbs, it seems like, at least for the purpose of accent assignment, the -eru and -iru of ichidan verbs are treated as morphemes (and not -ru as ...

I might be able to contribute some of my own stuff as examples if you want. I'm not an expert, exactly, but I often make glyphs in Illustrator.

When Japanese people go somewhere to pray for something, is generally going to be a Buddhist temple of Shinto shrine, since very few Japanese people are Christian. And since the word kami is not used in Buddhist tradition, we can safely assume it refers to Shinto gods. Keep in mind also that the vas...

Probably just an idiomatic translation. Translations between Japanese and English frequently need to take a lot of liberties to get natural text in the target language. Plus, kami-sama can be used to refer to the Abrahamic God anyway. The plurality in Japanese is ambiguous.

Moyoosu is not a word I tend to use or have much familiarity with, but another website lists them the same: moyoòsu vs. tòosu . I can also say definitively that naòsu and nào have different accents, as indicated above, and tòosu matches nào , on the first mora. Also, kind of a tangent here, but mor...

I'm having difficulty coming up with any four-syllable/four-mora words that cannot be further analyzed. Accent is not general bounded, although it's more likely to be towards right right. A lot of words with far-left accents are loanwords レストラン rèsutoran "restaurant" パンフレット pànfuretto "pamphlet" インス...

Also, I suspect that dogs probably don't care nearly as much about splashback.

To be honest, I don't really know a whole lot about inuyarai anyway, because they're not common at all, so you could easily be right.

Very interesting.

I guess London's are ningenyarai, then.
(human palisades)

It should also be noted that because they are especially associated with old, traditional areas, particularly Kyoto, there is now definitely also a decorative or aesthetic aspect to their continued existence.

They're called inuyarai . They perform the following functions: - as you said, prevent damage to buildings from foot traffic/bicycles/etc. - prevent dogs from peeing directly on buildings, to prevent rot - protect the walls of buildings from splashing rain and mud, also to prevent rot - prevent thie...

Sorry for failing to respond for so long. 1. I haven't seen your document, but if it has acknowledgements and links, I think that's good enough. 2. As far as legality goes, one of my images is scanned straight from a book I own (I mention this). The Devanagari and Hieroglyphic images were taken from...

Sorry, uhegao was a typo; I did search for ahegao. It sounds like ahe is probably onomatopoeic for the sound the person makes when making whatever face that is (sorry, I really know very little about this anime subculture stuff).

Mizuho is actually mizu.ho (and the name Iha is surely i.ha), so the /h/ is morpheme initial, meaning it is not (necessarily) subject to the p > w/Ø sound change (but cf. Fujiwara < fuji.hara). This allows words like Yokohama , Chihiro , kaihatsu , tsunahiki , shifuku , taihen , ehon etc. to exist....

Japanese does palatalize consonants before /i/, and it also causes lip compression before /ɯ/, since /ɯ/ also has lip compression. This is why /hɯ/ becomes [ɸɯ], and why /wɯ/ can't occur, since /w/ is almost the same thing. It's also these features that allow for the standard dropping of /i/ and /ɯ/...