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August 4, 2012 at 8:42 am #34046
Has this ever happened to you?
You go reading your native Japanese material or take a look at a list of words of Japanese words you need to know, saw a certain word and said to yourself, “When am I ever gonna use this?”. Or perhaps you saw an interesting word you wanted to learn but doubted its usefulness?
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For example:
When I was looking up 小豆島 on wikipedia, I saw the word 衛星 which you can see on the right side of that page and was like “LOL WHEN AM I EVER GONNA NEED THIS WORD”. Then a couple of days later when I got Death Note in Japanese for a $1 each at the NYC BookOff…..
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The time when I came across the word 淑やか and I had to learn it as a result of doing J-J Anki cards, (淑やか by the way, is one of the definitions of 慎ましい, the other definition for that word is 控えめ → http://tinyurl.com/d76e9ez ) and wondered if I would ever come across it again. A couple of weeks later….
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August 4, 2012 at 1:29 pm #34049
AnonymousNothing to see here, move along.
August 4, 2012 at 3:02 pm #34051I’ve seen the future and it is here.
August 4, 2012 at 3:20 pm #34053
AnonymousThis isn’t the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
August 4, 2012 at 5:07 pm #34054Being able to post pictures in the forum has paid off pretty quickly
August 5, 2012 at 7:35 am #34065この情報が警察に渡れば警察は あっという間にキラ=夜神月の見解に辿り着く…
I guess 辿り着く is not all that uncommon, but I hadn’t seen it anywhere other than Death Note…
Then I saw/heard it again a day after adding the previous sentence to anki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqLKCg-UgA (3:05)and I must say, it felt good.
Also たかが名前を確認するだけじゃないか… again from death note, this time たかが
and saw it again here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMmtfDgUSQ (1:28)
Hmmm I’m sensing a pattern… For some strange reason, after seeing “x” word more than once (in the wild) I start noticing it more (in the wild).
EDIT: again, it’s not like these words are rare or useless, maybe just slightly uncommon. At least something I didn’t expect to see anytime soon
btw, did I win?
August 5, 2012 at 8:43 am #34068Yes it has.
August 11, 2012 at 12:06 am #34275The non geeky meaning of おたく.
お宅
おたく
Polite form used when speaking of someone else’s home :pAugust 11, 2012 at 12:09 am #34276
AnonymousKoma, what’s your display pic of?
August 11, 2012 at 8:51 am #34280I really, really wish I knew >.< I think I stumbled upon it accidentally while hopping around Google. No idea if it’s just some kid’s Deviant-Art creation, or if this is a main character of a multi-season anime, haha.
August 11, 2012 at 10:46 am #34288from a google image search I found something called “garry ib”, no idea what that is.
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