I received this email from someone close, who has a deadline to finish a
graduation thesis:

```

    期日は20日です(>д<)
    これ右端揃うかな？笑
    
```

右端揃 means "right-alignment" but I don't understand what is the meaning of the
second sentence? Is the verb "うかなう", which I can't find a definition of ? Is
it about postponing the deadline? Or is the verb 揃う ?
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Meaning of 右端揃 in "これ右端揃うかな？"
Japanese fonts are usually non-proportional. Each Japanese character
(hiragana, katakana, and kanji) is a complete square: the height and the width
are the same. This size is called 全角 'full square'. One reason for this is to
make it possible to use the same fontset for vertical and horizontal writings.
However, for the latin part, these characters are also non-proportional within
themselves but, the width is the half of its height (I believe the depth is
set to zero), and are called 半角 'half square'. So whenever you have a computer
text displayed solely in Japanese font, the width of a line is exactly a
multiple of the width of half square.

In your example, the first line has six full squares and seven half squares,
which add up to 9.5 full square width. The second line has nine full squares
and one half square, which add up to 9.5 full square width. In this sense, the
two lines (should) align exactly at the right end. (However, if your setting
is such that the Japanese part and the latin part are using different fonts,
they are not aligned.)
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From the context of a quote from [this (admittedly unrelated :D) website entry
about CSS](http://allabout.co.jp/gm/gc/24009/3/):

> 標準では文章は左端から **「左寄せ」で** 表示されますので、何もしなくても各行の **左端は揃います** 。しかし、 **右端は揃わない**
> 可能性があります。CSSを使って **「両端揃え」** を指定すれば、左右の両端を揃えることができます。

From this context, we understand that with left-alignment of text, the left
side is **justified** , which means the text is in even against the left side
(左端が揃う then is "to be justified on the left"). However, the right side is not,
necessarily. In order to have the right side be justified as well, one must
use 両端揃え (both-sided justification, what most word processors call "justified"
paragraphs).

Now that we have context, we can see that 右端が揃う is "to be justified on the
right."

In this particular usage, I would interpret the second sentence as being used
to mean **"put everything off to the last minute,"** or at the very least
_working on it_ until the last minute. Perhaps this is a misinterpretation,
and sawa's purely graphical interpretation is more accurate, however.

**Summary:** I would say that the second sentence means roughly "Maybe I
should put it all off until the last minute? lol"
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I would say that the person is saying that by making the text right justified,
「右端揃う」, that will then force the
[tracking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter-spacing) to expand, which in
turn makes it so that the text fills up more space and gives the appearance of
a longer essay. This makes it easier to meet the required amount of pages in
less time, since one has to write less words.

It's a cheap trick, like using a bigger font. However, since Japanese has no
spaces or [kerning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning), then this tactic is
ultimately futile, which is why it's just a joke (indicated by 笑).
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