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    Tue, 21 Feb 2006

    Fun with Kanji

    I learned something new this weekend. Which is kind of sad, it really shouldn't be news to me. First, some background.

    In japanese, the word for delicious is "oishi", written in kanji as "美味しい". I was watching a japanese TV show called "Kuitan", which is about a private detective who likes to eat a lot. But that's neither here nor there. During the show, he visited a place called "The valley of the beautiful women". I know that "beautiful woman" is "bijin" in japanese. What I didn't realize is that it's spelled like this: "美人". That's right, the same character is used for "delicious" and "beautiful".

    Okay, I know. I'm easily amused.

    posted by Sir Phobos on 21 Feb 2006 at 10:20

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    Sat, 11 Feb 2006

    Blog Title?

    In case you're not Darth Illegitimus, the title of this blog refers to the common miswording of the phrase "for all intents and purposes". Intensive purposes now seems to be, at least from what I've encountered, more common than the proper way to word it. At least it makes marginally more sense than the newest variant: "for all intents of purpose", which just makes me want to slap your English teacher.

    posted by Sir Phobos on 11 Feb 2006 at 10:09

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    Fri, 10 Feb 2006

    Testing Kanji Support
    みんなさん今日は。

    posted by Sir Phobos on 10 Feb 2006 at 14:03

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    Thu, 09 Feb 2006

    JLPT?

    Okay, one of my goals for this year is to take the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) this december.
    The test is structured in four levels, with JLPT-1 being the hardest, and JLPT-4 being the easiest. I'm told that JLPT-4
    should be very easy, so I'd planned to tkae JLPT-3 last december. Unfortunately, due to some personal issues,
    I was unable to sign up for the test. Which leaves me the following quandry: should I continue as planned and
    attempt JLPT-2 this year, or go back and get JLPT-3? The test is only offered once per year, and you have to
    sign up by september, if I recall correctly. If I try for JLPT-2, and don't pass, then I get nothing and have to wait
    another year for my next shot. At this point, I'm leaning towards taking the JLPT-3.

    posted by Sir Phobos on 09 Feb 2006 at 08:21

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