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Thanks for clearing that up.

Just noticed this, and wondered if it's a mistake or if I'm just interpreting it wrong (both from the Visitor's Guide): If you get lost, offer a child a few coins to lead you back to your inn or to a local landmark, such as the main temple. Don't pay anyone to lead you anywhere, especially late at n...

I remember when I was told that my Japanese sounded a bit feminine... because I sometimes hung around the Japanese girls at school while I was learning Japanese and picked up some things from them; this was before I was aware of the fact that boys and girls spoke differently in Japanese. Funny -- m...

Weird in Japanese is an "adjectival noun" -- has some properties of nouns and some of adjectives. So no, not a verb, although to say "I'm tired" you're literally saying "I tired"; lots of other examples of an English adjective being a Japanese verb, but I can't think of any others off the top of my ...