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Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (April 24, 2025)

  • April 24, 2025

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  1. Hi. Is おや referring to both parents? Google translate is telling me this means grandmother lol I’m confused. 

    Ex. 私のおやは中国からアメリカに移住した。

  2. I’m about halfway through the 2k/6k deck. I want to begin immersion, but studying this deck daily is already such a time-consuming thing to do. When I do immersion, should I stop studying my Anki deck entirely? I know that word mining is helpful for learning, so maybe it’s good to just study Anki for the words I’ve been mining?

  3. Hi. So I try to learn by translating CD track titles, but one has me absolutely stumped.

    [Track 17 “千刀楽”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ksKh4zqaI) of [Katanagatari Vol.1 (track list)](https://vgmdb.net/album/21831)

    At first I thought it was just thousand-sword-楽 as the show has the 千刀流 (thousand-sword style) for example, but it also reminded me of how you’d write the name of a performing art.

    I folded and looked at existing translations online and seemingly everyone else is as confused as I am as I found:

    – Thousand Katanas at Ease : Which is interpreting 楽 as “at ease”
    – Orchestra of the Sentou : Which is interpreting 楽 as referring to music

    It feels like there is some kind of context I’m not picking up. After a bit of research I found these pages [1](https://www2.ntj.jac.go.jp/dglib/modules/kabuki_dic_en/entry.php?entryid=1181) [2](https://www.japanesewiki.com/culture/Senshuraku%20%28the%20last%20day%20of%20a%20performance%29.html) about 千秋楽 and it seems to me that maybe 千刀楽 could refer to some kind of sword performance?

    Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I feel like I’m missing a piece of context and it’s really not obvious how to interpret 千刀楽 even with the context of the show.

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    Edit: Track 20 “蒲公英の詰め合わせ” also appears to be some kind of play on words. Correct me if I’m wrong but ordinarily you wouldn’t use “詰め合わせ” to mean “bouquet”? Given the track plays when a character is combining their Dandelion attack with another technique called “詰め合わせ” it appears they are going for some kind of double meaning, but I’m honestly not sure why the technique is called “詰め合わせ” to begin with as it essentially is a Wolverine-style retracting claw attack.

  5. How do you read counters larger than 10?
    For example, 32つ、15個、16羽?

  6. hey guys, i was searching up for rules behind verbs pitch accent and i came across this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIQejCK1qg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIQejCK1qg) . at the start she explain the two categories of verbs and how the dictionary form of the pitch changes. so for all the verbs that i know (not much) it work exept for 帰る that is HLL. can someone explain me why? there are some expeption for this rule? +where can i find out what category the verb belongs to?

  7. I always read and hear “something something かなって” I never get that かなって. For example ●●さんになら、お願いできるかなって. What does this mean?

  8. もちろんけど、テロリストは知事の許可を得たですか？彼らはそうしないと僕が遊ばないです、ごめん✌️😔

    Is there anything wrong with this sentence grammar or order wise(there probably is)?

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