日会話 (Japanese Discussion Thread)

[Nordengrund]

これ は すぱるた です！

[WolFina]

Does anyone have a favorite period in Japanese history? I would have to say that mine is the Kofun period, it captures my imagination with it's Haniwa dolls.

[The of Japan]

Does anyone have a favorite period in Japanese history? I would have to say that mine is the Kofun period, it captures my imagination with it's Haniwa dolls.

I would say a mix between the Sengoku Jidai and the Imperial period

[KiraKira Land]

Does anyone have a favorite period in Japanese history? I would have to say that mine is the Kofun period, it captures my imagination with it's Haniwa dolls.

難しい質問ですね！色んな時代が好きです！

多分、平安時代でしょうね～

服装とか、長い黒髪とか素敵です！

もちろん、昭和時代も懐かしくて好きですね。

＊＊＊＊＊

古墳時代の男性の髪型って可愛いですね！私もやってみたい！

[The Islands of Versilia]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

[KiraKira Land]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

Yes of course, I was once creating an Altaic-based language (Japonic is similar to Altaic and might be part of that family).

You can create your own writing system if you want! That would make it more unique. You can make it a syllabary like Kana.
Also, kana does have a vu character:
ヴ

[The Islands of Versilia]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

Yes of course, I was once creating an Altaic-based language (Japonic is similar to Altaic and might be part of that family).

You can create your own writing system if you want! That would make it more unique. You can make it a syllabary like Kana.
Also, kana does have a vu character:
ヴ

Hm, I see. Versilia is located near Kamchatka and Japan, up in north-west Pacific Ocean, so a sort of mix between native Kamchatkan and Japanese might work. The original settlers came from Neolithic south-east Europe, so they would pick up a lot of things on the way.

I'm unsure how to create a writing system, and I'm reluctant to try because I have yet to find a way for custom writing systems/alphabets to be used on a computer or phone text.

Ah, I see.

[Gigaverse]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

I cAn PrOvIdE sOmE aSsIsTaNcE wItH tHaT i GuEsS

[The Islands of Versilia]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

I cAn PrOvIdE sOmE aSsIsTaNcE wItH tHaT i GuEsS

That made my inner grammar freak cry.
Why do you gotta bully the grammar freak?
I'm not Satanchia...

[Gigaverse]

I cAn PrOvIdE sOmE aSsIsTaNcE wItH tHaT i GuEsS

That made my inner grammar freak cry.
Why do you gotta bully the grammar freak?
I'm not Satanchia...

seriously though would you prefer that your language was Japonic or not

[Souseiseki]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

as kirakira said l/r and b/v usually just use the same character, so that's not an insurmountable obstacle. though, of course, there are many times when it is bery confusing and hald to dear with.

[Gigaverse]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

as kirakira said l/r and b/v usually just use the same character, so that's not an insurmountable obstacle. though, of course, there are many times when it is bery confusing and hald to dear with.

But I trust when used to write a language with phonemic (i.e. distinguished) R and L though, that would be a problem.

[The Islands of Versilia]

That made my inner grammar freak cry.
Why do you gotta bully the grammar freak?
I'm not Satanchia...

seriously though would you prefer that your language was Japonic or not

はい、ください。
(Hai, kudasai)

[Gigaverse]

seriously though would you prefer that your language was Japonic or not

はい、ください。
(Hai, kudasai)

lol i can read hiragana you know

hmm, perhaps we should continue this in tg or elsewhere to avoid cluttering this up too much don't you think

[The Islands of Versilia]

Would it be possible to create a semi-Japonic language? I am trying to make Versilia more East Asian, and Japan is the closest landmass to Versilia, so it would be possibly culture was exchanged between the two, especially language and such.

Also, I'm having the problem with a writing system. Kana does not included any L or V characters, so that cannot be used unless one helps me find a workaround.
Cyrillic could work, though it is highly unlikely.

as kirakira said l/r and b/v usually just use the same character, so that's not an insurmountable obstacle. though, of course, there are many times when it is bery confusing and hald to dear with.

Heh.
Alright.

as kirakira said l/r and b/v usually just use the same character, so that's not an insurmountable obstacle. though, of course, there are many times when it is bery confusing and hald to dear with.

But I trust when used to write a language with phonemic (i.e. distinguished) R and L though, that would be a problem.

I plan to keep the leader's name 'Akeldama', though I doubt the L could be said as an L in a Japonic language.

[The Islands of Versilia]

はい、ください。
(Hai, kudasai)

lol i can read hiragana you know

hmm, perhaps we should continue this in tg or elsewhere to avoid cluttering this up too much don't you think

Sounds good.
(And I was just making sure, because my Hiragana isn't very good...)

[Souseiseki]

as kirakira said l/r and b/v usually just use the same character, so that's not an insurmountable obstacle. though, of course, there are many times when it is bery confusing and hald to dear with.

But I trust when used to write a language with phonemic (i.e. distinguished) R and L though, that would be a problem.

it depends on how he wants to play it i suppose. to use russian as an example, sometimes letters have different sounds in different words and there are accent marks that show this, but as far as i know almost nobody uses them because native speakers already know which words use which sounds. so it'd be a problem, but only for people not already familiar with the language.

[Khalisako]

Yes, I can imagine it now...

Poor location chosen to store nukes
natural disaster(s) strike,
nukes somehow go haywire or go boom,
eyes melt skin explodes everybody dead, etc.

On a side note, Japan's and the US' history with nukes seems to have at least some link with their portrayal of nuclear accidents in popular culture. In American comics, for example, nuclear accidents create superheroes; in Japan, you get Godzilla.

THen there's the property damage. Who's gonna pay for all that mess?

http://www.bankrate.com/financing/insur ... insurance/

[WolFina]

Does anyone have a favorite period in Japanese history? I would have to say that mine is the Kofun period, it captures my imagination with it's Haniwa dolls.

難しい質問ですね！色んな時代が好きです！

Does it count as cheating I had to check jisho to fully read this?

[Nordengrund]

I've completed both hiragana and katakana, but what is the best to go about learning kanji? Is there a way other than rote memorization and remember stroke order?

[KiraKira Land]

難しい質問ですね！色んな時代が好きです！

Does it count as cheating I had to check jisho to fully read this?

いいえ、大丈夫ですよ

むずかしい漢字使ってすみません！

[Kitatani]

I have a few questions.

Firstly, what would the romaji for this be?:
キタタニノーチスボード

Secondly, does 北谷 have any macrons (ā, ī, etc), in its romaji?

Thirdly, for someone who is from Kitatani, it would be 北谷人, yes? And as an adjective, it would be 北谷の.
Am I correct in that assumption? I was using the native words for one who is Japanese and the adjective. I admittedly google translate...

[KiraKira Land]

I have a few questions.

Firstly, what would the romaji for this be?:
キタタニノーチスボード

Secondly, does 北谷 have any macrons (ā, ī, etc), in its romaji?

Thirdly, for someone who is from Kitatani, it would be 北谷人, yes? And as an adjective, it would be 北谷の.
Am I correct in that assumption? I was using the native words for one who is Japanese and the adjective. I admittedly google translate...

1. Kitataninootisuboodo, in the Nippon-siki style
2. No
3. Yes, yes

[Kitatani]

I have a few questions.

Firstly, what would the romaji for this be?:
キタタニノーチスボード

Secondly, does 北谷 have any macrons (ā, ī, etc), in its romaji?

Thirdly, for someone who is from Kitatani, it would be 北谷人, yes? And as an adjective, it would be 北谷の.
Am I correct in that assumption? I was using the native words for one who is Japanese and the adjective. I admittedly google translate...

1. Kitataninootisuboodo, in the Nippon-siki style
2. No
3. Yes, yes

ありがとう〜！
What would the spaces be in the romaji of the first question?

[KiraKira Land]

1. Kitataninootisuboodo, in the Nippon-siki style
2. No
3. Yes, yes

ありがとう〜！
What would the spaces be in the romaji of the first question?

I am not sure about that.. As it's a made up word (I think?)