linguistics

'Nice guy' is the word girls use to describe a man who won't become a romantic prospect.

There are plenty of people who build an entire argument citing only the Kōjien, saying 'This is what the Kōjien says'.

'No, no — the smile we're looking for isn't like that.' That's a 'sneer' or a 'mocking laugh'.

'What did that guy say?' 'Russian didn't get through to him at all, so I cursed him out in Russian.'

If you could also add how to produce contracted sounds (ya, yu, yo) and the double consonant (tsu), it might be helpful.

A proposal has been made to replace 'blind person' with 'visually impaired person'.

'Going to the girls' room' is a euphemism for 'going to the toilet'.

Stories don't get used up no matter how much you tell them.

A child learning to speak isn't formally studying.

Depending on how users use them, machine-translation programs can produce significantly better results.

I got a question from a reader about free translation versus literal translation.

Understanding parts of speech is extremely important for developing a correct sense of word order.

In Chinese, when expressing 'tense,' as mentioned above, it is usually conveyed through particles, time-indicating words, or context.

It goes without saying, but the point of contact between people is 'words.' Through those words, we share our thoughts and carry on discussions.

In Japanese, the object is mainly indicated by the particles 'ni' and 'wo.'

'That' only has two cases — nominative and accusative — and doesn't change form based on case.

How many strokes does the kanji 道 ('path') have in total?

A 'modifier' serves, as the name suggests, to decorate the sentence.

Deaf people communicate using sign language.

You can't do without a good dictionary.

How can you distinguish good English from bad English?

Sometimes verbs are derived from nouns, and sometimes it's the other way around.

It seems appropriate to apply these rules to voiceless consonants.

It is true that a normal person can use language, but comparing this ability to eating, sleeping, or walking is misleading.

Midori sometimes drops consonants.

She studies not only language but literature as well.

We created a generally available English-Japanese bilingual corpus.

Regarding suffixes — 1: The suffix [-ion] forms nouns with meanings such as 'action, state, process, result,' etc.

Relative pronouns serve the function of a conjunction plus a pronoun.

Supplementary information includes adverbs and things that function as adverbs.