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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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AnonymousNothing to see here, move along.
I’ve seen the future and it is here.
AnonymousThis isn’t the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
Being able to post pictures in the forum has paid off pretty quickly
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?
Yes it has.
The non geeky meaning of おたく.
お宅
おたく
Polite form used when speaking of someone else’s home :p
AnonymousKoma, what’s your display pic of?
I 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.
from a google image search I found something called “garry ib”, no idea what that is.
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