文章. The art of combining words and sentences into larger units.
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Learning Japanese rhetoric and composition
One aspect of studying Japanese that has greatly frustrated me is my university's lack of writing classes. Learning kanji, vocab, grammar and an academic or other style is important, but Japanese rhetoric at its core is also structured differently…
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What are the major prescriptive style guides for Japanese prose?
What are the major prescriptive style guides for writing regular Japanese prose (as opposed to e.g. technical writing)?
I suspect that this question will have a fairly short list as an answer - if you were to ask the same about American English,…
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Can a city or a place be described as 便利?
I know 便利 means something convenient or handy but can it also be used to describe a place?
Ex. 1 If City A is close to city B, can I say that city A is 便利 (because it is easy and fast to travel to city B)?
Ex. 2 If city A has lots of supermarkets,…
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文章の話題語の変化はどう解釈されていますか？
日本語では、話題語がとても重要だと考えられていると思います。文章で話題語がなければ、ほとんどの人には不自然、もしくは不快に聞こえると思います。
しかし、文章が一文より長い場合、話題語の選択は私にはかなり難しくなります。話題語をいつ変えればいいかがいつもよく分かりません。普段、直感的に選びますが、母語話者じゃありませんので、かなり危険なやり方だと思います。したがって、ある種の指針を求めています。
実例を用いて説明します。
前半では、主人公が龍を倒す。後半では、龍が復活し、また勇者に倒される。
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Does "sekiro" mean one-armed wolf? how?
At first I should say that I know nothing about the Japanese language but I find it fascinating. A few years ago I started playing the amazing video game "sekiro:shadows die twice". Since then, there was always this question in my mind: What does…
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Implicit topic switching
I'm wondering -- is something like
ジョンが迷っていると気づいたら、何とかしないと、と。ジョンなら絶対に出来る、と言った瞬間、突然ハンドルをつかんで引いた。 その痛烈な性格の変化は今でも鮮明に覚えている。
considered sloppy writing, or is it acceptable?
These are the intended…
Darius Jahandarie
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