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Chikai ja nai.
This is not, in fact, how one writes the kanji for “chikai”: My bad. … …so I kind of… yeah… So I kind of *completely forgot there was a quiz today*, okay? I don’t recall this working out too well in...
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I misuse furigana constantly.
I was erasing a lot of the furigana I wrote on my Japanese homework yesterday, so as to force myself to actually memorize stuff, and I realized I’d written down the hiragana for *the number four*....
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(This text was originally posted on LiveJournal. It has been reformatted (awkwardly) for use on WordPress.) I finished Torikaebaya Monogatari/The Changelings/If Only I Could Exchange Them a while back....
View ArticleSabotage!
Either one of my so-called “friends” got into my translation project – or I got very, very, very tired at some point. In a place where there ought to be complicated kanji technobabble, I find instead...
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Microsoft!
(This text was originally posted on LiveJournal. It has been reformatted (awkwardly) for use on WordPress.) For the last few months, when I type a new kanji into the RTF files I’m doing my translation...
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Successfully acquired rice cooker off Craigslist for 1000 yen. (Not from the guy before, from another guy.) The rice is soaking, and shortly I shall test it. Went to Koishikawa Kourakuen. In January,...
View ArticleI’m better now!
Yes! I’m assuming it was the detergent. The hidden part of this post uses the word “suppositories,” and is precisely as unpleasant as that word’s presence would imply. I also had hemorrhoids really...
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1) If you’ve seen Mushishi, do you find Ginko’s VA incredibly smarmy, especially when he’s talking to young women? 2) Regardless of your answer, have you spent any time around Japanese guys?
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I have been doing so many kanji flashcards they have taken over certain other vital neural processes, including quantifying time and the sensations of pain and heat. I think I had a dream about...
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FINALLY found Barbara Ikai
Yes, I could have bought it off Amazon.co.jp, but where’s the challenge in that? Anyway, I now own volumes 1-4. I also bought my back-to-Japan plane ticket yesterday. Procrastination is magic – the...
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