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How should I format my questions on JLU?
Japanese Language and Usage has a few features and conventions to help everyone with understanding each other's questions and answers. If you find them useful, please feel free to use:
Furigana ...
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What questions are not allowed on Japanese Language and Usage?
Most of the questions that we have downvoted and closed as off-topic on JLU since the start of beta have been in one (or more) of the following categories.
No Resource Questions
No Study-method ...
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Resources for learning Japanese
Here at JLU, we have been seeing a constant stream of "Do you know any books/programs/websites that would help me learn XYZ in Japanese?", even though we (and the stack exchange network in general), ...
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What notation should we use for showing the pitch accent of words?
Japanese, as I imagine most (if not all) of you are aware, has a pitch accent system, which essentially means that the pitch pattern of a word can be and is often a very important factor in ...
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What is “too localized” for our community?
In the comments of the question Who is the subject in various parts of this song?, I commented that the question seemed too localized. I have always understood the "localization" of a question to be a ...
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Glossary: Simple Linguistics Terms and Cross-Reference
This is a basic glossary of terms that new users (or users from different 'tribes' of language learning) have come across. This list serves mainly as a cross reference, so that people who are used to ...
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Building our FAQ!
A lot of the discussions so far have revolved around FAQ content (what it should contain, how it should be answered...). Amanda already got the ball rolling with a list of possible topics: What should ...
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Deciding on an “officially recommended” format for furigana on JLU
This question is closely tied to two previous questions:
What is the correct approach to romaji, kana, and/or kanji in example answers?
Is it possible to add support for Ruby tags or any other ...
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Serial downvoting and downvoting etiquette in general…
I just logged-in and noticed that every single of my contributions (questions and answers) to date had been downvoted: obviously by the same user, most likely without even a reading (there are 10 ...
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Should we have a standard notation for example sentences?
Many texts and internet resources use certain symbols to prefix correct, sometimes correct, questionable, and incorrect examples:
○ (U+25CB): correct (converts with まる in Windows IME)
△ (U+25B3): ...
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What should our FAQ contain?
Now that the public beta has started, we really should start updating our FAQ with some of the decisions we've made during the private beta. Possible additions:
Basic resources (Rikai, EDICT, ...
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FAQs worth adding
Right now there isn't much in the FAQ beyond the standard boiler plate, but I think that as we move though the beta we might want to expand it a bit with questions like the following:
How to write ...
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Do questions have to be in English?
Does a question (and by extension its answers) have to be posed in English, or are purely Japanese conversations acceptable? What about other languages?
