Life In 19x19

I would take any amount that compensated me for the worry about losing, and the trouble involved in making the bet- say $105.00 and up. I think five bucks is about right for me.

This is only because losing $100.00 wouldn't affect me very much. I couldn't generally tell you my checking account ...

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That's not a bad strategy, I think, if you modify it a bit. ...

I will try not to get emotional in my response as I have in the past, but it offends me when you word things like this,

To be honest, I can't see anything particularly offensive about the way I worded that. I try to avoid ...

In my opinion, you should not care about the specific form you use. You are expected to make mistakes as a foreigner. As you practice speaking with people more, your mistakes will become fewer naturally.

Well, I'd agree that if you are a complete beginner at Japanese you're probably fine using ...

I know I'm kind of bringing this thread back from the dead- I hope that replying to a thread that's two months dormant isn't considered rude here. I did want to toss my two cents in here though.

First off, it really is important that you not _emulate_ anime speech when speaking Japanese, if you don ...

While I think this result is both interesting and maybe a bit obvious I'm not sure you can generalize from it to how people react to winning and losing at board games. Money represents the resources you have to have to continue to live comfortably, and anyone who stops caring about money is going to ...

I'm not a very good Go player- I've known the rules for a long time, but I've played very intermittently, mostly before online Go was available. I've only recently started playing again, and I've been told I am about 10 kyu (not sure what rating system,) so I'm a much weaker Go player than you are ...