Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (August 05, 2022)

5 comments

1. Kindly correct.

   批判的なタイプが必ずいます｡ “*There will always be the kind that criticizes.*”

2. My city’s winters and autumns are very misty. Fog isn’t quite the appropriate word as visibility isn’t that minor. Based on some searches on goodictionary and Japanese Wikipedia I read that there’s the same distinction of different visibility between 霧 (きり) and 靄 (もや). That said, きり is designated as a common word on [jisho.org](https://jisho.org) (as other 20 000 words) but もや isn’t between those. I was wondering if maybe きり is used for both fog and mist in daily language (as opposed to meteorology-specialized language)?

3. currently know N5 content and tiny bit of N4. Was immersing and noticed this. From what I understand:

   冷やさねば

   ひやす＝cool down ねば＝need to

   but what grammar point is this and how does the conjugating work?

4. Is there any sub/sites that is like r/NHKEasyNews/, but translating from English to Japanese?

   It could be meant for Japanese learners, or native Japanese speakers trying to learn English.

   I do write journals and stuff, but in a way, it’s limited very much to what I want to say, what I know, and want to challenge myself to write more beyond my usual ‘repertoire’.

5. Can someone help me with this sentence from a song ?

   天使でいられるのに

   I think that いられる is the potential form of いる, But I’m not sure what does で do here, I think it’s like である for saying is, like I can be an angel, But I’ve never seen でいる.

   My second question what’s のに here ? Is it like “although” or a nominalizer followed by the particle に ?, I don’t know what function would these do it this context

   Here’s what comes before this sentence

   キミから笑いかけてくれたなら

   天使でいられるのに

   After that is just music