They were only briefly active in Korea before SM shipped them off to Japan (so they have 1 Korean album and 2 Japanese albums), and then they've been inactive since 2009, mostly. There's a subgroup called Dana and Sunday, and then one of them, Stephanie, released a solo single with Game/NaNaNa.

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Jez could pen a piece about women fanfic writers coming to being actually published and discuss why so many of them seem to be "bad" or have controversy surrounding them. This, 50 Shades, the other Twilight fanfics-cum-novels that I've forgotten the names of. It's an interesting thing to look into, but maybe that's…

Probably not. Even in the post-kinja age of "elevated discussion" a bunch of fans screaming that it's a non-issue wouldn't make for good comments. Then again it'd make for good clickbait I guess.

Most people aren't teaching in developing countries though. The ones most people pick are South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. They're just... Fulfilling a need really. The schools want to better their students' English and so need more fluent English speakers. It'd be great if everyone had the job they had because they…

I don't quite agree. Most of the people who I know that have gone on to teach abroad have done so for economic reasons. Being out of work for over a year with absolutely no luck submitting hundreds of applications a month, feeling like a failure for having to move back in their parents, and just general lack of other…

Some bands or singers do different arrangements for concerts. There's a couple songs by one of my favorite singers I'm kinda eh about the CD versions, but the concert versions are completely amazing.

Also isn't it a bit weird to comment on what should be maintained as Korean cultural customs as if it's one single-minded thing? A lot of young Koreans and Korean-Americans are getting tattoos. It's gaining in popularity, it's something they evidently want to change in their culture. So saying she should shut up and…

I don't think so. Most of the guys who like the new show whom I've met have an absolute burning hatred for the older shows and toys. Though I'm sure there's a couple who were into it before.

Maybe the name got lost among the shuffle of the tons of other names he had to learn through history classes? I didn't remember who Emmett Till was until I looked him up just now, and then I was like "Oh I remember learning about this".

It is isolating, so so much. Also, as the Only Female Computer Science Major the people in your class know, you end up being the Measurement of All Women Programmers to them. So you end up afraid to admit struggling because then you get "man girls suck at this" and you feel like if only you were better you might…

Fire Emblem does this too to an extent. Most of the lead characters are Lords, one of them is actually is given land and a title to switch to the Lord class. Princess, Prince, Queen, and Empress also feature as classes across the series. 9/10 especially did this (there was a Lion King class!)

Sorry if I came across as critical of anglicizing words, I just meant that the argument didn't make sense because she says people can say it fine, but they don't. I don't either, I say it as "crah-sant", most people here do, because they /aren't/ trying to be French. It's been adapted, which you can't really do to a…

Also... "Quvenzhané" isn't French, comprised of French words, nor does it follow French pronunciation conventions. I really really don't get where being able to pronounce French is relevant; if you pronounced her name according to French conventions you'd be saying it wrong. Is it because of the accent on the é?

It's bombed pretty badly here, to the point we didn't actually get the last game (New Mystery of the Emblem) and a lot of the fans thought the series was done in the west. That we got Awakening at all was quite a shock to fans, honestly.

I think it's easy to forget sometimes that at the set of Chinese characters are picture representations of their meaning, because some of them are so complicated... But they do bring up interesting thoughts in regards to social media, such as the case of emoticons/emoji.

I actually find emoji fascinating from a linguistic point of view. They originated from Asian social media (the name is Japanese e + moji, picture + letter). So, Japanese uses kanji (character representations of words/things) in their language, so for them having a laughing face at the end of a message isn't too…

Not all the time, people can be pretty bad with conveying meaning via words or sometimes they might read into something you say way too much ("I can't believe you did that!" could be taken as praise or scorn, for example). Plus sometimes it's weird to say something like "Oh I am so shocked!" because it sounds somewhat…

Because text on a screen lacks many cues that we use in spoken language (inflection, stress, tone, etc, not to mention visual cues like facial expression and body language) and so people try to make up for it by using emoticons and emoji?

I have a couple friends that now live with boyfriends/girlfriends they met through MMOs. I think it's become more commonplace.