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Where have all my socks gone?

 

Here's my question: are the rest of you getting these weird squiggly lines showing up on your monitors? I've got a set associated with this very thread here.

 

I see no squiggles.

 

Squiggles for me, so can't make fun of the title.

 

The squiggles are supposed to be 37 in Hiragana Japanese. I know nothing about Japanese or its many forms of writing, so perhaps I was a bit brave.

 

They look like characters in an East Asian language (didn't know it was Japanese) to me:

 

If you did not identify ti as Japanese straight off the bat then you have had insufficient anime exposure.

 

I have had zero anime exposure. And I suspect that's sufficient. For me.

 

Yes, but you're over thirty years of age.

 

There needs to be a serial thread rule that anything other than arabic or Roman numerals in the title must be accompanied by a translation.

 

that's not how you spell 三十七

 

I copied it from the table "Hiragana Numbers in Japanese, 1 – 100" about a 1/3rd of the way down this page. Is this really wrong?

 

I mean most english speakers would write 37 instead of thirtyseven

this is the same kind of deal

(also my new spiel is to berate on japanese stuff that deviates from chinese)

 

Most English speakers would use thirty-seven, not thirtyseven. (Compound numbers between twenty-one, or 21, and ninety-nine, or 99, are spelled with hyphens in English.) 37 would be more common than both. There are stylistic guidelines for when to spell out numbers, and a fully spelled out thirty-seven would be perfectly adequate for many situations.

In English, "to berate" uses a direct object; "on" is extraneous. In addition, it is almost always directed toward a person, rather than the thing a person has done. You berate someone for doing something, rather than berating something. I recommend instead the verb "to bemoan", which also uses a direct object and is usually used for the thing a person has done. Thus, your new spiel is to bemoan Japanese stuff that deviates from Chinese.

 

Bemoan is underused.

 

I've been going to bat for gainsay.

Shakespeare had "beweep" in one of his most famous sonnets: I all alone beweep my outcast state.

"Bewail" is out there, but we don't hear it terribly often.

I'm going to bewail the underuse of "bewail"

 

I use it sometimes.

 

Way to miss the point completely.

It should be a rule for ALL serial threads, and we shouldn't have to wait for the fifth post or until enough people complain. It should either be part of the title or at the very least it needs to be in the OP.

 

I feel a useful guideline is whether google provides an immediate, obvious, intuitive result.
This is not the case here. (It was for the Greek numerals in earlier installments.)
So that's burdensome.
Conversely: Anglospherians compulsively complain and demand rule enforcement whenever there's an well known quote, line from literature, etc. just in the original language, and google would have immediatly told them as much.
That's also burdensome.