Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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FYI: Hentaigana coming soon
It is long overdue, but hentaigana (変体仮名) are finally coming with Unicode 10. This is a full set of 285 characters. See here for fuller details.
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Restarting the Election Nomination Phase for 2015 Moderator Election
We sorta had a snafu with the election - namely we let the election persist into the election phase without enough candidates to actually have an election. The normal process, as happened over on ...
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Do we like hats?
In 2011, the Gaming Stack Exchange hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges):
Certain actions would trigger the ...
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Fun with numbers - JLU usage graphs
I've put together some charts that track JLU's beta health meters at Area51 on an hourly basis.
User related stats: http://webnumbr.com/.join(jlu-beta-total-users.all,jlu-beta-avid-users.all,jlu-beta-...
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Policy on banning AI-generated content
While there is no network-wide policy on AI-generated answers such as those produced by ChatGPT, judging from our moderating experience over the past months and the related meta discussion, we the ...
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Bolding in Japanese text has finally been fixed!
Bold markup finally works with Japanese! See this announcement on Meta.StackExchange:
Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
Until now, we've been working around this problem by using <...
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Please tell us what you're quoting!
Lately, we have lots of questions like this one or this one, asking about some specific text but without telling us where the text came from or what the context might be. I think that's unfortunate.
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NHK Slightly Harder News
I think I've finally reached the stage where NHK Easy News is easy (mostly). Filled with confidence in my now truly awesome Japanese skills I thought it was time to read the adult news. Big mistake. ...
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Winter Bash 2016: Hats are coming again soon!
It's almost time for Winter Bash 2016!
For several years now, Stack Exchange has run a holiday event called Winter Bash! It's a fun little event where users collect "hats" that you can wear on your ...
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"Proofreading" should be chosen as the close reason for "How does my hiragana look?" questions
From What questions are not allowed on Japanese Language SE?, proofreading is not allowed. It's available as a close reason when closing questions:
Questions asking for translations, transcriptions ...
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Reviewing posts flagged as low quality
I sometimes get confused about what I should do in the review queues when a post is flagged as low quality.
This is the example I'm currently thinking of.
Whilst the answer isn't great, and doesn't ...
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Should sequential tiny edits for old posts be discouraged?
Editing, compared to asking/answering, seems to have less detailed documentation. After I thought of asking this user to slow down a bit, I noticed that I had no specific documentation or discussions ...
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An unofficial style guide to our tag wikis
I've been updating tag excerpts with Japanese translations. The format of our tag wikis is inconsitent, so I'd like to record what format I've followed for the tag wikis I've edited, in case anyone ...
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Goodbye @lélecteur
Just noticed that this user deleted their account few hours ago. It is unfortunate that we didn't throw a farewell party before it happened :'((
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What are authoritative Japanese grammar books written in Japanese?
I know Kojien is the most authoritative dictionary.
What are some authoritative grammar books written in Japanese?
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What are easy to understand Japanese podcasts?
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I originally posted this question on https://japanese.stackexchange.com, but was informed that it is off topic and would be more suitable to this forum. Thus, without further ado:
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The best reason to close "primarily based on guesswork" questions
Recently, two questions were closed for different reasons:
Being addressed as “Anata” by a Japanese male friend (closed as "primarily opinion-based")
Tsunetero from tsundere (closed as "unclear what ...
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Can someone correct a URL?
On the page at Resources for learning Japanese
the URL for the Kyoto/Melbourne n-gram corpus lookup is broken. The (new) correct URL is:
http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/jwb/ngramcountswww.html
I can't ...
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Winter Bash 2017: Hats are coming again soon!
It's almost time for Winter Bash 2017!
For several years now, Stack Exchange has run a holiday event called Winter Bash! It's a fun little event where users collect "hats" that you can wear on your ...
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What's the difference between a translation request w/ the user's own attempt, and a proofreading question?
I just saw this question in the close review queue. At first I was going to vote "leave open", because the asker gave their own attempt (which makes it allowed, I think). But I noticed the asker also ...
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Would allowing preformatted anonymous critical comments help?
It's sometimes frustrating to get downvotes on posts without getting any feedback on what's wrong with them.
Would people be more willing to provide critical comments if they could choose from a list ...
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Improving findability: searching for rōmaji versus kana
Discoverability is a problem for this site, and I want to discuss one particular problem that I think is specific to JLU:
If you search for romanized Japanese on Google, you won't find results ...
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Where's the blue colour?
In the site design release post Japanese Language New Site Design, this colour scheme was shown:
I imagined that one colour would be for the main site, and one for the meta site, since for other SE ...
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FYI: Corpus linguistics
Some of you may be interested in a free online course in corpus linguistics that is being taught by Lancaster University. It begins on September 28th. Fuller details available here. I am not ...
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Can we ban the "writing" tag?
We had a tag called "writing", which contained 16 or so questions about orthography, handwriting, composition and name and other tags in a good mix. I don't think a word as general as writing should ...
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Tag proposal: "particle-choice"
While browsing through the particles tag, I noticed there were a lot of comparisons, and that some of the questions were tagged word-choice, so I thought I might propose to add a "particle-choice" tag,...
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How can I look for questions at my skill level?
Many of the questions here are not quite within my skill level. Apart from looking at each question manually, what techniques can I use to find questions at my skill level?
Meta tags are considered ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Please help us to answer this question on History SE!
After a discussion on History meta, we have decided we need to take steps to broaden the range of questions that are asked at our stack. Many countries, such as Japan, have a very long recorded ...
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User Experience: Discovering the Formatting Syntax Documentation
For a contributor who is in the markdown editor, and is trying to understand how to take advantage of JLU's unique formatting engine, I feel the experience is poor. I see the user experience go wrong ...
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4,000 questions reached!
Glanced over at the statistics and noticed the landmark (well, technically 4,002). Based on posting times, it looks like In the japanese The legend of Zelda (e.g. Ocarina of Time), why is navi ...
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Is the "learning" tag misleading?
After taking a look through posts that had this tag, I found that quite a few of them either get closed or migrated to meta. Except for users who have been here for awhile, this tag seems to suggest ...
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Heisig Book 2 spreadsheet for anyone who wants it
This isn't a question or a discussion point, it's just about a possible learning aid I've made that might be of interest to people who use this site.
I initially used the Heisig system for ...
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Markdown editing help doesn't mention ruby
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/editing-help doesn't mention how to do ruby. Is this something that can be changed per stack exchange, or is it fixed for all sites?
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Building our FAQ!
A lot of the discussions so far have revolved around FAQ content (what it should contain, how it should be answered...). Amanda already got the ball rolling with a list of possible topics: What should ...
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Allow limited resource questions in meta?
Since resource based and general learning questions are a major point of discussion right now, what about having a handful of questions here in the meta that we can point people to in the FAQ along ...
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Etiquette on deleting answers
I just wrote an answer that, on reflection, was misleading/wrong. I know the OP had seen the answer because they commented asking for further details. I then added a comment apologising and explaining ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Which language varieties are on-topic and off-topic?
It seems to be accepted that questions about Japanese dialects are on-topic here and questions about other languages are off-topic. But let's look at the grey areas:
Questions about Kansi, Hiroshima, ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Broken furigana parsing in questions page
This post has furigana in the title. It renders fine when looking at the post itself, but when you see it in the questions page the kana and braces are shown in-line with the main text. I'm sure this ...
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What are resources that list contractions?
I often have difficulty understanding certain mangas like one piece for example. There are many weird contractions and slangs. I can easily look up slang using slang dictionaries. Looking up ...
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Is closing this as a translation request an over-reaction?
I was looking up how the grammar of こと works for "I like verbing" style sentences, as I wanted to have a valid example before putting it into my Anki. I came across I like to do 'Verbs' , ...
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Ideas for how to polish fiction novel/short story translation skills
Note: I am posting this question here since I know it doesn't belong on the main Japanese Language forum, and was hoping someone from this community could offer some advice.
After many years studying ...
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Identify this accent - on topic or off topic?
Is asking about the accent or the like of a film/tv character on topic or off topic? For example, if I filled in the blanks, would the following question be suitable?
In Happy Feet 2, the elephant ...
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Give Japanese names for the badges?
Could the names of badges be made Japanese? For example, student could be gakusei, and teacher could be sensei.
Badges are meant to be an optional incentive, rather than something serious like ...
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Should the tags "sentence-structures" and "syntax" be merged?
I think syntax is the technical and linguistic term for the more popular sentence-structures tag used here. The Wikipedia article on syntax seems to verify this:
In linguistics, syntax ... is the ...
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Should we merge the "reference" and "resources" tags?
The tags reference and resources seem to cover the same fields and be used by the same kinds of questions, and about half the time both tags are used on the same questions.
Vote to merge or clarify ...
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Seeing deleted posts -- a couple different use cases
I am curious if there is any facility for finding deleted posts.
One use case is to view deleted posts by a specific user, to see if there is a clear trend. C.f. this user, who appears to be making ...
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Is there a way I can type classical Japanese (文語) relatively easily?
I was taking some notes for classical Japanese, but it's hard for my to type simple words because my IME (Microsoft's default Japanese IME on Windows 11) doesn't show the proper kanji for their ...
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