Adam Shaftoe

A woman looks impishly at the camera, resting her arms on the beefy shoulders of two dudes. One dude is looking at her. The other dude's eyes are locked on the other guy. Are these people about to fuck? What is the nature of the dependence that evoked this image when I searched for 頼る？ Are you reading this in Werner Herzog's voice yet? Language studies have always dripped with innuendo. Today is no exception to that establishment.

Another entry in what is now going to become a running series of google image results for Japanese words going in an unexpected direction.

The word: 頼る - to depend upon, to rely upon

The image

That and a lot of sad dogs, and I'll take kaiju over sad dogs any fucking day of the week.

All I wanted was an image to convey ずっと and this is what I got.

When someone still has the nerve to ask me, "Why learn Japanese" I like pointing to things like this and saying, "To understand why"

Hmmmm. That does scan when you explain it that way. Thank you for the fresh eyes.

What am I missing where one can't use のに to say, "Despite studying a lot the exam was very difficult?"

I don't see why しても is more correct.

The classic blunder: not taking the extra second to think about which way お母さん is scolding 息子 in the dialogue and picking 勉強するな instead of 勉強しなさい

Come on, Adam, Bruce Lee taught you this one.
考えるな、感じろ。

All this time I thought it was just me who thought this.

We set out for an engineering project, we literally had a meeting two weeks ago while the DM was sick to do the math.

And instead we shot up an Imperial starship.

And now we've jumped to the fucking Morlana system, which is not where we needed to be at all.

a space ship with a blue light coming out of it 's side ALT: a space ship with a blue light coming out of it 's side

So naturally....

Meanwhile, aboard one of our ships, the young Quarren the party is escorting to a bunch of historic sites falls into a trance and we all know, as if by magic, that if we can do even a little damage to the hyperspace motivator of the Interdictor its grav wells will drop.

The reality: smash together a few jacuzzis and because, oh shit, an Imperial Interdictor just showed up and blockaded the system.

Cut to: My character parlaying his outer rim celebrity into a gentle escort for our 3 ships, 1 fighter and two heavily armed transports into the interdictor's hanger

Tonight in Star Wars RPG:

We were trying to get these mermaids off Yavin 8 because some imperials were doing research on a bad force thing that was poisoning the local water supply.

The plan: covert a ship to haul 100 mermiads to a new home.

Aaaaanyhorse.

Here are some of my attempts to internalize this grammar.

今、私の猫が眠がっている。
長い会議あとで、部長が詰まらながっていった。
長い会議あとで、私の部長がいつも詰まらながった。
ルームメイトだ田中さんは新しい本が届くときうれしがる。
そのスターウォーズのオタクは「アンドー」が好きじゃながる。

So...

Two 日本語 revelations for today.

1) Somehow I got to this point thing that 欲しがる/ほしがっている/たがる/たがっている were literally the only things you used the がる suffix with.

2) Why I struggle with adverbs: 90% of my reading is newspapers and periodicals.

So many bear attacks.

毎日、もっと少しずつね

I think I see how we are getting there. But I'm also still feeling like a bit of a dunce from this one.

。。。

I think B's response is something like

仕事は　たいへん　なら　たいへんな　ほど　終わったとき うれしいです

Which doesn't scan naturally to me but is probably something close to: If work is hard, I'm very glad when it is done....or something like that.

In other monuments to failure, today's JLPT prep invites a genuinely painful composition question.

I also do stats and data analysis for my day job. And baseball is nothing if not an endless font of free data points.

And it's also this deeply human monument to failure, toxic perfectionism, and byzantine rules and regulations that no sane person can keep in their heads.

I am not a sports person.

I am an artist.

Baseball is human art.

God damn Yamamoto has an arm.

The shit posts we will get if a white boy called Will Smith wins the world series.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

That was not the kind of Springer Dinger we wanted.

LET'S FUCKING GO