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Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 09-01-2005, 12:53 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 591
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Started Elementry Japanese...suggestions on studying. ^^;;

I used to use my own print-outs for writing paper. On my printer, it prints a soft gray grid with faint crosshair lines inside each square as guides. I believe it should print correctly in most...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 08-25-2005, 09:33 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 965
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: How many Akihabara Otaku would rescue a damsel in distress?

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Skywise said:
The question is though, do these otaku watch densha otoko and have they been influenced by it? There's also the question by how they set up the scene in question. Were these...
Forum: Manga News & Information 08-12-2005, 08:15 PM
Replies: 200
Views: 2,629
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japan Info Report: Series Endings and Series Beginnings (No Spoilers Please!) v3.0

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Megs said:
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jupiterstar said:
Ai yori Aoshi ends in next issue (#17) of Young Animal (http://www.younganimal.com/yokoku/new.html).

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How many tankoubon will that result...
Forum: Manga News & Information 08-12-2005, 05:53 AM
Replies: 200
Views: 2,629
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japan Info Report: Series Endings and Series Beginnings (No Spoilers Please!) v3.0

Ai yori Aoshi ends in next issue (#17) of Young Animal (http://www.younganimal.com/yokoku/new.html).
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 07-14-2005, 11:29 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 331
Posted By jupiterstar
Google Maps Japan + Satellite

Don't know if this has already been mentioned, but Google Maps for Japan is available. It looks like Tokyo is the only one that has street level sat. images though.

maps.google.co.jp...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 07-13-2005, 10:05 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 347
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: オタク検定試験 (Otaku Proficiency Test)

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ayumu-chan said:
(I would totally fail the test, though. /images/graemlins/depresse.gif)

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Not that it's something to be ashamed of. Actually, I'd worry if you even came within...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 07-07-2005, 11:19 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 1,259
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japanese photo contest

I had to do a show and tell at work recently, so I put together a few Quicktime panorama VRs from the pictures I had. The files are pretty big, so be patient. It works better if you save the files...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 06-10-2005, 10:37 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 378
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Teaching a Japanese course to an anime crowd - suggestions?

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Kintaro said:
It's always funny to explain why the "mother" kanji has those two dots in it /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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It's definitely not the titi. haha!...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 06-05-2005, 05:04 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 1,259
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japanese photo contest

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Hailibu said:
Elevenhundred pictures!?!

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Well, I did go to two weddings. /images/graemlins/happy.gif Half of the pictures are from those two events and a lot of them are "action...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 06-04-2005, 09:10 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 1,259
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japanese photo contest

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covnam said:
Wow, that's a great photo! Is that that giant ferris wheel in the background?

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Yes, there are a few in the area. The one on the right hand side of the picture by...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 06-03-2005, 10:20 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 1,259
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japanese photo contest

Ema at Naritasan (http://www.jupiterstar.com/moscribbles/images/naritasanema800.jpg): The tangible shapes of so many people's hopes and dreams give me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Taken at...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 03-30-2005, 12:13 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,205
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: 'My Japanese sucks' - translation check?

And just to nit-pick some more, I'd probably drop the "watashi wa" part. It's an unnecessary pronoun because it's pretty obvious that you're speaking about yourself.
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 02-07-2005, 05:22 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 515
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japanese Culture Invades Kentucky

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"People ask me a lot if I am going square dancing," Simone said. She is clearly not amused.

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The first thought that would go through my mind if I saw kids dressed like that is...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 02-01-2005, 09:59 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 17,200
Posted By jupiterstar
Programming the IME/Kotoeri

Both Windows (IME) and OSX (Kotoeri) have pretty good Japanese language engines for inputting Japanese. For programmers, they also provide APIs to access that engine and use its language analysis...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 02-01-2005, 09:44 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 17,200
Posted By jupiterstar
Keyboard shortcuts for symbols

For Windows (similar for Mac):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Bja%3B883172
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 01-31-2005, 08:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 446
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: ★　Fun characters　★

<span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>Cheat Sheet from Microsoft (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Bja%3B883172)</span> (gah! the spoiler tag doesn't work for links)

From...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 01-31-2005, 02:22 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,492
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Best J > E translation software for scanned & pasted text ?

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quen said:
I have no idea what Japanese OCR software there is, but it may be expensive.


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Adobe Acrobat Professional does it (mine is US/English version, 6.0 for Mac but probably...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 01-25-2005, 09:43 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 481
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: How do I read this person's name? 似�市蔵

It's supposed to be 以� and isn't part of the name.

Here's the original paragraph when a hawk tells Yodaka, the ugly bird, to change his name. Yodaka means "night hawk" and the real hawks don't...
Forum: Manga News & Information 11-25-2004, 03:10 AM
Replies: 168
Views: 2,020
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Japan Info Report: Series Endings and Series Beginnings (No Spoilers Please!)

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AdamStephanides said:
Since vol. 19 contains Acts 89-93, this suggests that the entire series will run 21 volumes. Can any more fluent reader with a copy of vol. 19 confirm (or disconfirm)...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 09-30-2004, 07:15 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 14,648
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Avex to drop mandatory copy-protection

Sony has officially dropped (http://www.sme.co.jp/sme/pressrelease/20040930.html) their LabelGate copy protection scheme effective 11/17+ releases. Hopefully they'll see an increase in CD sales now...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 09-18-2004, 01:29 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 14,648
Posted By jupiterstar
Avex to drop mandatory copy-protection

From Slashdot Japan (http://slashdot.jp/article.pl?sid=04/09/17/120205) which refers to an Avex press release (http://www.avex.co.jp/j_site/press/2005/press040917.html), Avex is no longer going to...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 09-10-2004, 01:28 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 17,200
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Keyboard shortcuts for Japanese IME (thanks Quen)

On my XP machine (probably W2K too), while the word is underlined:

F6 or control+u - Changes word to hiragana.
F7 or control+i - Changes word to katakana.
F8 or control+o - Changes word to single...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 08-08-2003, 02:54 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 17,200
Posted By jupiterstar
Conversational Grammar and Vocabulary Practice

The Pera-Pera Penguin segment from the Daily Yomiuri has nice printouts for learning conversational grammar and vocabulary.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0002/

Mod Edit: Changed Subject Line...
Forum: Glitch Disc 08-02-2003, 06:44 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 1,188
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: DVD Disk Only Return

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kopiikat said:
Um, unfortunately I had to change my e-mail address since I sent the request for the return envelope. Do you think that if they get a "not received" e-mail, they won't send...
Forum: Japanese Language, Culture and Popular Media 04-25-2003, 09:12 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 14,648
Posted By jupiterstar
Re: Copy protected CDs watchlist

The Saikano OST isn't copy-protected, only the single for the intro/ending song is. Most, if not all anime CDs are "unprotected." It's only for certain publishers such as Avex where copy-protection...
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