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@imgn But can I respond there from my account on mastodon.online?

May everyone have a day where your toast is done perfectly, your coffee is precisely as you like it, and you and the universe are rolling along in harmony. 😁 (Tough goal, I know, but hey! Let's give it a shot...)

#science for those of you who were asking about how to keep your brain healthy--a friend of mine wrote a book on the topic!! (spoiler alert: Exercise, sleep, and diet...) 😄
https://news.gsu.edu/research-magazine/staying-sharp-as-we-age-vonetta-dotson

@tagomago Nonsense. I am always right. 🤣

It is amazing how many weird ideas I come across online where when I try to figure out why someone would say that, I track down the thinking to a Russian source or Fox BS. Surprising, and disheartening.

Morning all. It's spring, isn't that the best time to go to war... SIGH... 😥

@tagomago I did! It was actually rather interesting--it was two presenters, one a writer/historian of anime (sort of?), and one an anime series creator, and after they both talked it became a three-way discussion with a professor of something relevant at a university in I think Tokyo--they were all either Japanese American and/or living in Japan. So the history was very cool, for me, and the discussions about the effects of the audience outside Japan on anime was a little sad but good to know...

Anybody else joining in on this? #japanese it's starting in a few minutes, theoretically...

Japanese Pop Culture: Connecting the World through Manga and Anime

Date & Time:
Tuesday, Februrary 15 at 7 pm EST

Viewing Link on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/tUxkOpYMKlc

Dear god in heaven... 😂 On one of the recent episodes of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown, Sean Locke (filmed before he died last year, natch) described an Impossible Dictionary, where you looked up words based on their 4th letter--but it was the fourth *unique* letter; and words like donut are found under "e" for "baked goods", and other impossible rules. It was hysterically complicated.

But then we have here, How to use a Japanese Dictionary:

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/how-to-use-a-kanji-dictionary/

I have no words. 🤣

Huh. I'm now the co-editor of a major neuroscience journal. 😱 I think I may need a new fediverse account for professional bizness, since I'm going to be expected to toot horns and raise awareness of new articles, etc. 😁 (can't have that getting mixed up with anime reviews and personal commentary...) #science

@tagomago Just a pipe with a pinhole leak, of all things! Random failure as far as anyone can tell, no obvious cause.

@tagomago It does! Heck of a way to end the day... 😥 Though luckily nothing was destroyed except some walls--we were traumatized years ago by a roof that leaked so bad we lost most of a bookshelf of books before we could get it fixed.

Well that was fun (/not): Yesterday evening around 8pm a pipe in our front wall sprang a leak, apparently. My sweetie noticed it very quickly because they were working in that room, and we both went on high alert--they were evacuating the room, saving the electronics and books, I was trying to find a 24 hour plumber. 😱 We did turn off the water, but it still took the plumber three holes in the ceiling to find the source of the leak. So no water until they can fix the pipes later today. 😥

@tagomago Well DL's approach leverages our natural tendencies to see patterns and make stuff up to explain them. 😂

@tagomago I completely did not code that. I'm sure I did it in the lessons, but I don't remember that as a point that made me scratch my head... Sorry for leading you astray!

@tagomago Yeah I don't think of them as separators so much as markers. Want to know what's the main noun of the sentence (usually the subject in English)?, look for wa. Want to know what the main noun for the verb is (if it's unclear), look for ga. Want to know who/what's being acted on, look for wo. In English we do a lot of it by word order and pronouns (I wrote him a book) but in Japanese they lay it all out for you--assuming they say it at all, which with pronouns they often don't. 😁

@tagomago oh look at that! I didn't realize you could replace wo with wa.

@tagomago Not as I understand it--I think wa is the topic marker and wo tends to be the direct object marker?

@tagomago What's the grammar like? If I understand correctly, they tend to drop the "is" word out of the sentence--"My brother chemist" instead of "My brother is a chemist"--is their word order also backwards from English, like Japanese?

@tagomago oh yes? how so? Enquiring minds want to know... 😁