Re: Enter the Linguistic Pagan! 参上！言語学の異教徒！
I myself am not certain if 参上 and 登場 are related. I will ask though. I do know that the fancier the dialog, the more kanji you're likely to see. For instance, in normal conversation, you will see aru written as ある、though in the patent docs I have translated, it has also been written as 有る or something equivalent to that, and sometimes you see a ridiculously long string of kanji, to the point that you start wondering if it's in Chinese lol. I do like your idea of having a bilingual thread talking about paganism on here. We might be surprised at the number of people showing up to participate (I knew I was absolutely FLOORED when you told me you did Japanese!). I am also looking forward to the Bizan translation thing, which I might look up soon, too.
Originally posted by Jembru
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Cool!! I'm so excited about that! Okay, what I'll do then, is pop over here and let you know when things have kicked off or new posts made, maybe with a tempting teaser to spark you interest even more!
Also, we should start a thread for discussing paganism in Japanese. I wonder if we should check with the staff how they'd like us to do it and where? It would be very rude to have a private conversation between ourselves in a language that most members can't read, but I'd be worried that if we started such a thread on the other forum, some members might be offended. I've mentioned in passing that I am pagan, and Abby, who's a church going Christian, wasn't in the slightest bit offended, but my study-buddy, who I was meeting on skype to do speaking practice with, suddenly vanished altogether and I'm a little anxious that this is why.
Maybe we could make it bi-lingual so that people can join in with English only, if we say something that interests them, or do it in blogs which would keep it off the main forum. I've never, ever attempted to discuss paganism in a meaningful way in Japanese. I've literally explained roughly what I believe and then quickly moved onto a safer topic.
Anyway, I'm going to be skanning in the first page for the reading task tonight or tomorrow night. The book is 'Bizan', by Masada Mashi, in case you want to look into it before we start. I'll let you know as soon as the thread is started!
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Wait a moment! I've never checked the kanji on the title of this and just assumed that first word was 'とうじょう', because of the '上'. I've only ever heard this word, so haven't seen written. Rikaikun caught it as I ran over with my curser just now and I see that it's actually read さんじょう. I've never come across the word 参上. I see it means 'visiting or calling on' according to rikaikun. So, is this an alternative word for 登場? Yeah, I looked up the proper writing and it doesn't even use 上! This is exactly why I shouldn't guess at words, although I do this far too often. I knew 参 from 参加, so could have guessed it was read 'san' but this is the ONLY word I can read that uses this kanji, so I guessed maybe it had other readings. ^^ Oh dear, this reading task is going to be interesting then isn't it? Haha..
Also, we should start a thread for discussing paganism in Japanese. I wonder if we should check with the staff how they'd like us to do it and where? It would be very rude to have a private conversation between ourselves in a language that most members can't read, but I'd be worried that if we started such a thread on the other forum, some members might be offended. I've mentioned in passing that I am pagan, and Abby, who's a church going Christian, wasn't in the slightest bit offended, but my study-buddy, who I was meeting on skype to do speaking practice with, suddenly vanished altogether and I'm a little anxious that this is why.
Maybe we could make it bi-lingual so that people can join in with English only, if we say something that interests them, or do it in blogs which would keep it off the main forum. I've never, ever attempted to discuss paganism in a meaningful way in Japanese. I've literally explained roughly what I believe and then quickly moved onto a safer topic.
Anyway, I'm going to be skanning in the first page for the reading task tonight or tomorrow night. The book is 'Bizan', by Masada Mashi, in case you want to look into it before we start. I'll let you know as soon as the thread is started!
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Wait a moment! I've never checked the kanji on the title of this and just assumed that first word was 'とうじょう', because of the '上'. I've only ever heard this word, so haven't seen written. Rikaikun caught it as I ran over with my curser just now and I see that it's actually read さんじょう. I've never come across the word 参上. I see it means 'visiting or calling on' according to rikaikun. So, is this an alternative word for 登場? Yeah, I looked up the proper writing and it doesn't even use 上! This is exactly why I shouldn't guess at words, although I do this far too often. I knew 参 from 参加, so could have guessed it was read 'san' but this is the ONLY word I can read that uses this kanji, so I guessed maybe it had other readings. ^^ Oh dear, this reading task is going to be interesting then isn't it? Haha..
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