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Originally Posted by masaegu
It is difficult to talk about pitch accents with words but what you stated looks good. For "underwear", the パ receives a clear high pitch accent. For the other meaning, it is kind of flat all the way.
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OK, that's what I was thinking. I think the convention is that an all-flat word is considered nothing but high pitches.
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As for an online pitch accent dictionary, I found a fairly comprehensive one many months ago and gave it to Maxwel in a thread. I failed to keep it for myself and now I cannot seem to find it.
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I was wondering about that. I recalled seeing one online somewhere very vaguely. I bet I have it written down somewhere.
I actually just did a Google search for only things that appear on Japanforum.com for threads where you and Maxful both posted on the same page and the word "pitch" appears (the specific Google query is
site:japanforum.com +maxful +masaegu +pitch).
Doing this search, I have come to a startling conclusion that explains why, twice, you haven't been able to find where you made some comment on JF. Namely,
When a thread reaches something like 36 pages in length, it starts having pages go missing. Here's a link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PJeU0ttbroAJ:www.japanforum.com/forum/japanese-language-help/25439-japanese-help-questions-translations-78.html+site:japanforum.com+%2Bmasaegu+%2Bmaxful+%2Bpitch&cd=1&hl=en&ct=cln k&gl=us&lr=lang_ja|lang_en&client=firefox-a
That's Google's cache for page 78 of this "Japanese Help Questions/Translations" thread. Now try to click on another page at the bottom—say, page 79. You'll find you get redirected to page "36" of this thread, which is
the last page, the one on which we're carrying on our most recent conversation.
So JF has a memory hole where it forgets things!
This upsets me. The site has gone down for long periods of time before, there is absolutely no way of contacting the owner (I've asked MMM and Nyororin, two MODS, and they don't know how to contact the owner, either!) to report problems, and now I find out that it throws pages away!
I'd set up a board just for Japanese language and invite everyone there if I weren't sure it'd be futile (a forum is worthless without a critical mass of people).
New thread to replace this one: http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...tml#post881825