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[meidei]

Thanks for the answer.
Yeah, I should have recognized 來 as a variant of æ

[Callid]

A quick way to tell if a text is Japanese is to see if Hiragana or Katakana are used. Chinese would be Kanji only. A complete japanese sentence needs at least one of the two Kana sets.

And if it's Korean, you have circles 

[meidei]

And if it's Korean, you have circles  ;D

By the way, handwritten Hangul is almost as cool as Katakana in a Gothic typeface.
Too bad that I can't figure out how I'm supposed to read the Korean characters.

[c-square]

A quick way to tell if a text is Japanese is to see if Hiragana or Katakana are used. Chinese would be Kanji only. A complete japanese sentence needs at least one of the two Kana sets.

It's possible for Japanese to have kanji only as well.  You're right, a complete Japanese sentence needs at least one kana.  However, it could have been a name or a noun, both of which can be represented purely with kanji.

Here's an extreme example of a Japanese kanji-only word (though not something anyone would write on the beach)

Spoiler:

Here's my understanding: 
1) If you see hiragana or katakana then you know it's Japanese
2) If you see lots of kanji and no hiragana or katakana, then most likely it's Chinese
3) If you only see a few kanji (usually five or fewer) and no hiragana or katakana, then it's more likely Chinese, but it could be Japanese as well

[meidei]

Yeah, you are very right indeed. I originally wrote "A complete japanese sentence needs at least one of the two Kana sets, with the exception of organization names" having a similar case in mind but I decided to drop it for simplicity.

Oh, and there is also the really old system called Man'yÅ

[Holmes]

Someone who has seen Tengen Toppa and knows Japanese could tell me how to say the phrase under my avatar please? I always forget 

[meidei]

Someone who has seen Tengen Toppa and knows Japanese could tell me how to say the phrase under my avatar please? I always forget  Sad

"Who the hell do you think I am!?"

"ore, dare da to omotte yagaru?!" (俺, 誰ã

[Holmes]

Yoh, thanks mate. And it´s actually the one used in the anime.

[c-square]

[quote="meidei"]
"ore, dare da to omotte yagaru?!" (俺, 誰ã

[meidei]

AFAIK, yagaru is an auxiliary verb which is used to express anger towards the action of the main verb.
Grammar: attaches after an i-stem or ~te form.

I have a Kansai dialect question.
What does Hattori's ã

[Tanner-kun]

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[c-square]

AFAIK, yagaru is an auxiliary verb which is used to express anger towards the action of the main verb.
Grammar: attaches after an i-stem or ~te form.

Thanks, I've learn some new Japanese today!

I have a Kansai dialect question.
What does Hattori's ã

[meidei]

Thanks, I've learn some new Japanese today!

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[meidei]

I have a question again. It's about kon'na, son'na, an'na ("like this/that/that").
I wanted to say "I don't know anything like this", with this referring to a certain category of websites.
My first thought was "Boku wa kon'na saito wo shitteimasen". Then I thought: Since I don't know about it, wouldn't by weird to use "kon'na"? And I went for "Boku wa an'na saito wo shitteimasen".
Seems like both were wrong, 'cause I was told I should use son'na in that case. Why's that? 
Kon'na is for something near me, so it seems logical to me. But an'na seems to fit better because I was talking about a concept unknown to me. Why both are wrong and I should use son'na? It was supposed to be used about something close to the listener and it certainly wasn't. 

[Tenken]

so if a guy used -kun toward another guy....what does that mean?
I don't see men using -kun with each other often...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_honorifics