I… see.
All I was thinking was that the voice takes attention away from any pronunciation/intonation mistakes she might be making (since it’s so fake that people wouldn’t try to emulate it). But maybe it really was just to make it harder to identify her.
Wait-
WHAT? You can’t just drop that bombshell on people and not provide extra info?! 
As someone who was taught grammar in school from the age of seven, and who prefers to rely on general rules and patterns when learning languages (including English, as it happened), this is one I can’t argue with. I mean, I know I’ve always justified it by saying something like ‘the adjective that’s closer to the noun is more “essential” to its nature’, and I often find I can apply almost the same order in reverse in French… yeah, it’s not really something you can pick up without exposure. It’s like how ‘apples and oranges’ and ‘oranges and apples’ ought to be the same thing, but the first is far more common as a set phrase.
かわいいいいいいい!!
Guys, is Tae Kim even Korean?
On his blog he says he’s still learning Korean and Chinese, so I don’t want to get into this English Japanese grammar guide thinking it’s a Korean English Japanese grammar guide if his native language isn’t even Korean but English, you know what I mean?
Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s more than one Tae Kim out there.
I don’t want to because it’s a Kiwi Farms thing that I only know about from second hand sources (I refuse to use that site).
But here is the modern cults website: http://www.mother-god.com/
The cult is the modern form of Aristasia. Aristasia had ties to the British National Party. Aristasia is something that Cure Dolly apparently was the head of. The BNP is “only” neofascist nowadays, but in the 80’s and early 90s (when Aristasia was active) it was an outright neonazi party.
If you are really interested, you can go to Kiwi farms, but I don’t know much more since I refuse to give that site traffic.
Had to look it on Wikipedia… Yeah, now that I know what it is, I don’t want to give it any traffic either 
Kiwi Farms should not be considered a reputable source by any means, it can be and has been used as a tool for slander and character assassination.
Haha so um did you guys know Tae Kim is korean? Crazy right?
this thread gave me all kinds of whiplash
Yes. I know. This one seems to be a bit more backed than some, but I wouldn’t take it as fact. Though at least the person doing that cult stuff sounds very much like her, and the links between Aristasia and neonazis is well document (as noted by Wikipedia). The only link less clear is with that cult and Aristasia.
Tae Kim’s guide is decent. Imabi provides more detailed explanations (but isn’t written by a native either. He’s American I think).
hehe, right, and I just wanted to point out that I can’t find anywhere any proof that Tae knows Japanese
well, it’s OK if you’re not a native speaker, but you should know a language very well in order to teach it to the world, and I couldn’t find this in Tae Kim’s biography, that’s my original concern
