A sort of silly moment

I wrote this about a year ago, in, I think, a fit of cranial hemorrhaging. I apologize in advance, but it popped into my head this morning, god knows why, and through the wonders of the internet I managed to track it down again.

It's even on topic!

The Japanese language is very different from English. For instance, English verbs conjugate differently depending on the subject. As in I am, you are, he is. One of the first things an Anglophone will notice if they take a Japanese class is that the Japanese language does not conjugate like this. Instead, Japanese verbs conjugate only for tense. As in I run, I will run, I ran.

Another important distinction am the use of particles. The English language do not has particles, instead it rely on the structure of the sentence, the placement of the subject and the object and the verb relative to each other. As in Johnny went to the store. But Japanese go about this differently. To mark a subject it use the particle wa, and the particle ga if the subject is secondary. To mark an object, it-wa has the particle o. The particle ni-wa indicate time-o. If you-wa am going somewhere, your destination-ga am marked by he. But if you-wa am already somewhere, your location-ga is marked by de. As in Matt-wa went to the store-he at 2:00-ni. At the store-de he bought an orange-o. Other particles-wa am for giving examples (toka)-toka, the conjugate and (to)-toka, and the word too (mo), which replace wa-to ga-o.

But the Japanese language-wa am even more confusing. Even though there am particles-ga, the language-wa still have a sentence structure-ga-mo . That structure-wa am subject-time-place-object-verb. Matt-wa 2:00-ni store-he went. Store-de orange-o bought. Adjectives-wa like un-particle-d objects-ga act. Matt-wa untalented am.

I-wa this-ga the fact that hard am-ga know. You-wa it-o can do.

Needless to say, the admins over at Megatokyo quickly locked the thread.