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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (January 03, 2025)

  • January 3, 2025

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4 comments

  1. Hey everyone. I wonder if someone here can clear something up regarding Japanese IMEs/Keyboards.

    Microsoft’s IME lists two shortcuts that seem to do the same thing:

    1) CTRL + ` on an English keyboard or Hankaku/Zenkaku key on a Japanese keyboard: Turn on/off Japanese input

    2) Shift + Caps Lock on an English keyboard or Eisu key on a Japanese keyboard: Toggle between Hiragana and Alphanumeric mode (though it also works with Katakana)

    I’ve been running a couple of tests and can’t figure out what’s functionally different between these two. I tried both while using romaji input and kana input and didn’t notice anything at all.

    Does anyone know?

    Thanks in advance!

  2. 彼女は通りがかりの人に救われたよ

    (She was saved by a passing stranger.)

    From Kaishi 1.5k what is the が(ga) particle for or doing?

  3. how do you translate なければならない in this basic form?
    勉強しなければならない i want to know how to translate it in its basic form
    i would translate it to “if i dont study then it wont do” but whats throwing me off is the ならない part which translate to “it cannot be help”.
    so if i go by that it would translate to ” if i dont study then it can’t be helped” is that also acceptable?

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