Looking for a database of kanji images

tantric said:

Standard language ideology
As defined by Rosina Lippi-Green, Standard Language Ideology is "a bias toward an abstract, idealized homogeneous language, which is imposed and maintained by dominant institutions and which has as its model the written language, but which is drawn primarily from the spoken language of the upper middle class." According to Lippi-Green, part of this ideology is a belief that standard languages are internally consistent. Linguists generally agree, however, that variation is intrinsic to all spoken language, including standard varieties.

社会言語学,この芋

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Whether you take a descriptive or a prescriptive view of grammar and usage it still doesn't mean that 130 million Japanese speakers are obliged to adjust their own usage to make room for your assed up notions of Japanese usage. Saying that grammar is (or should be) descriptive in nature doesn't mean that clueless foreign speakers' utterances are correct. It is jaw-droppingly asinine to pull that out of your rear-end in an attempt to tell an educated native speaker who is taking time out of his day to try to correct your goofy-assed Japanese errors that you are in fact, correct. It is also ungracious, ungrateful, and rude.

Bouncing Buddhas! What are you going on about? When I said that language don't have rules, I was responding to:


In the sense that there are no 'must bes' in languages. It didn't concern you in any way - you dropped into this thread specifically to say something snarky in highly colloquial Japanese, presumable so as to demonstrate your mastery. I find that annoying and pointless, so I called you a hick/rube.


You pulled that completely out of your ***. I did no such thing - this is probably because you are not a part of this conversation - it's an A and B conversation - C your way out of it. (yeah, translate that).

Again, I was asking how I would use iki to say that the website was cool, and how that differs from tsu. I find the aesthetics fascinating. My degree is in classical Japanese poetry. I used to have a huge goldfish tank - the fish were named Hitomaro, Lady Murasaki, Empress Jemmu and Kobo Daishi. They got imported Japanese goldfish food - hugely spoiled. I gave the tank to a lady with chronic fatigue syndrome, to put in her workroom, and to help with her ki.

論点ずらしの繰り返し？
間違い指摘されて開き直るなんざ全然粋じゃねえですぜ、旦那。過ちは改めるに如くはなし。盆栽でも眺めてちったぁもののあはれの真髄って奴を会得してみちゃあどうです？

Anyway, you already got what you wanted initially, and the thread is going off-topic. In accordance with the forum rules and my previous 警告, thread closed.