Join the よつばと! Reading Club! よつばと! Volume 2 (Chapters 8-14) Discussion Thread Current Chapter: 14 ( Jump to Discussion ) [image] Reading Schedule Start Date Reading Jump To Discussion January 14 Chapter 8 link January 21 Chapter 9 link January 28 Chapter 10 link February 4 Chapter 11 link …

marcusp: But no worries, we can start chapter 9 in just a day or two! Hah. I was just about to post exactly that.

I was under the impression that だ was the informal of です but for informal speech it was often omitted. This is from the human Japanese app on iOS.

I learned it that way too from class. だ is the informal version of です, but informal speech will often require omitting だ. Perhaps the key is to recognize that you cannot simply replace all instances of です with だ when converting formal to informal.

Human Japanese does a bit of a history lesson and apparently だ used to be である but over time was shortened to だ. It explains why the past tense of だ is だった (from であった)

である still exists as the copula in formal writing. The である writing form also includes a bunch of words and grammar structures which are pretty much unique to it.

Discussion of Chapter 9 starts here. Opening Post Chapter 8 Bottom of Page

Oh, already. Sooner than I expected. Finished my first read-through! Love how the TV doesn’t speak with furigana, since it’s not intended for Yotsuba’s hearing. Or something. One question, though, and one I’ve been wondering for a long while, with manga in general: page 44, frames one and two, wha…

[image] Belthazar: Oh, already. Sooner than I expected. It’s already 11:19am, Sunday here in Oz…

[image] Belthazar: Finished my first read-through! Love how the TV doesn’t speak with furigana, since it’s not intended for Yotsuba’s hearing. Or something. Every character seems to speak with kanji corresponding to their levels of education and understanding, like to indicate nuances between…

I read the whole volume when I was on vacation in November, and this chapter was great. So random and hilarious.

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Discussion of Chapter 9 starts here.

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