Things you just don't get

[patrickBOOTH]

Wow, that is amazig.

 

[Kid Nickels]



Why in Japanese there has to be different ways to count objects based on their shape.

Not just shape, there are different counters for different types of things as well and the counter may change depending on the actual number. Also the word for the number may change depending on the industry it is being used in.

Chinese has the same forms of qualifiers and "grouping" words (classifiers). I am only superficially familiar with Japanese (which, I understand is more complicated in this regard) but this "practice" or "method" if you will actually gets into the logic of the culture.... how the language represents the worldview and the way(s) in which it developed. I actually have "learned" or more correctly adapted to think differently in Chinese...

 

[L'Incandescent]

One of the students I failed for plagiarizing last semester is retaking the class in the current summer session. She has a permanent scowl on her face and is clearly angry at me. Why the hell is she angry at me? She's the one who copied and pasted her whole damn paper. What was I supposed to do, give her a B?

 

[Liam O]

Not just shape, there are different counters for different types of things as well and the counter may change depending on the actual number. Also the word for the number may change depending on the industry it is being used in.
For example,
1 animal ip-piki
2 animals ni-hiki
3 animals san-biki
4 animals yon-hiki
5 animals go-hiki
6 animals rop-piki
7 animals shichi-hiki (nana-hiki)
8 animals hap-piki
9 animals kyuu-hiki
10 animals jup-piki
Base form of some other counters
hon Long, cylindrical things
mai　 Flat things like paper
ko　general small objects
hai Liquid in containers
satsu　 Books
kai　The floor of a building
There are more.

Had the same **** in mandarin. Except its usually specific to a noun. biggest pain in ****** in the whole language.

 

[Liam O]

One of the students I failed for plagiarizing last semester is retaking the class in the current summer session. She has a permanent scowl on her face and is clearly angry at me. Why the hell is she angry at me? She's the one who copied and pasted her whole damn paper. What was I supposed to do, give her a B?

obv. yes, der.

Do u no how hard she had 2 luk 4 that paper?

WTF who u thnk u R? Dissrespeckin her like dat, she don got 2 rite no paper 2 prove she smart.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



One of the students I failed for plagiarizing last semester is retaking the class in the current summer session. She has a permanent scowl on her face and is clearly angry at me. Why the hell is she angry at me? She's the one who copied and pasted her whole damn paper. What was I supposed to do, give her a B?

Would you have given her a passing grade if she gave you a beege?

 

[Kid Nickels]



Would you have given her a passing grade if she gave you a beege?

 

[indesertum]

korean has the same thing. my mom would always correct me when i used the counting word for things cuz i would always get annoyed at trying to think of the proper counting word.

 

[Liam O]

Would you have given her a passing grade if she gave you a beege?

That'd depend on the earned grade of the beege and whether he thought she plagiarized her technique from another student.

 

[deadly7]



Would you have given her a passing grade if she gave you a beege?

I thought I remembered him saying he bats for the other team, so probably not.

 

[Liam O]

I thought I remembered him saying he bats for the other team, so probably not.

Beege is beege. Football helmet?

 

[deadly7]



Beege is beege. Football helmet?

So you would like a gay man to blow you, even though you're straight?

I can't say I understand the sentiment...

 

[Thomas]



One of the students I failed for plagiarizing last semester is retaking the class in the current summer session. She has a permanent scowl on her face and is clearly angry at me. Why the hell is she angry at me? She's the one who copied and pasted her whole damn paper. What was I supposed to do, give her a B?

Easy answer: tell her to drop or be failed again.

 

[Liam O]

So you would like a gay man to blow you, even though you're straight?
I can't say I understand the sentiment...

only if he wore a WNFL helmet.

 

[acidboy]



Easy answer: tell her to drop or be failed again.

or give a ****