Re: Need help choosing a novel to read
From: Paul Blay (ranma_at_saotome.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/12/05
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:19:24 -0000
"Chris Kern" wrote ...
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:59:09 -0000, "Paul Blay"
> <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> posted the following:
>
>>I /liked/ the Harry Potter books - but I don't know that they'd be that good to
>>learn from because the Japanese is probably the 'wrong sort of odd'.
>
> As
> usual with fantasy-type books, the vast majority of the vocabulary is
> normal, everyday words, and the "fantasy" stuff are usually either
> katakana loan words or kanji compounds which you can guess.
Hmm, yes but it's not the vocabulary that's the "wrong sort of odd".
It's more like this (paraphrasing) ...
Me : So what do you think of it?
Japanese teacher : The Japanese is rather odd.
Me : Odd like the English version is odd with olde English and such?
Japanese teacher : (Does the "Doesn't want to seem to be directly
disagreeing with you but actually is" look.)
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