I’m not totally certain I’m gonna have internet access tomorrow evening, so I’ll be creating the thread for Week 5 this evening just in case. So don’t panic when you see it - you didn’t lose a day of your life!
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Alrightly lovlies. House sold, house acquired, and cross country move…mostly complete. I have a hotel and two suitcases anyway. Time to get caught up on five weeks of reading! How long could it take to read…52…pages anyway?!
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Fun fact: I recently had a lesson on keigo, and so I thought I’d mention ござんす as it is frequently used by the shop owner. My teacher was like “What did you just say?” and after I repeated the word, he said that this is a very old word, probably from Samurai times or so… For me this surely added to the impression the author is trying to convey of the shop 
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Perhaps you know this already but ござんす is very probably from ござります (り > ん is a common sound change, and I guess ま just devoiced and then dropped, but I could be wrong) and listed as such in dictionaries. Actually, there appears to have been many variations on ござります, including ござんす but also ござりす, ござりんす, ございす, ござます … basically every permutation can be found if you look carefully enough, although I think ござんす was one of the more popular ones, and has retained some popularity as a present-day “old speak” type of thing.
In terms of period, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten indicates rising popularity in late 17th and early 18th century, so definitely Edo era. In linguistics terms, this is considered modern Japanese already, but I guess for us it seems like long ago. If you ask me, what betrays that is the use of ます (ござる+ます), which came to be used at the beginning of the modern period (17th century onwards). So the info seems to match. So yes, many samurais around, since it would be during the Tokugawa shogunate… but samurais at peace (in late 17th century), if that matters!
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“Zenitendou” sounds like a German trying to say “the Nintendo”
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Chapter 3 is here!
How are people finding the pace so far, now that we’ve had a two-week chapter?
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The pace seems pretty good to me.
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Hey guys!
Bit of a late start since I only started using the forum today, but I just ordered the book!
Looking forward to reading this and hopefully catching up to you guys to join the discussion.
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Welcome to the book club! I hope your book arrives soon. 
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Hope you’re able to join us before the end 
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Heads up that I’ll be on holiday on Friday, so I’m going to post the thread on Thursday evening. If I forget then you’ll just have to wait till I get back on Sunday and have a meltdown 
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Nothing important here. Just looked at the schedule in the OP and wanted to say that there’s a Chapter 7 閉店 but it’s only 4 pages long and ends on p149.
I’ll delete this post after you’ve read it. (@Belthazar 
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Be a terrible shame if someone were to… quote it…
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I might try to join (again) after the JLPT, so for chapter 5. I started reading along with chapter 1 but… Zenitendou is still a bit too difficult for me and back then I didn’t have the time to put the amount of effort into reading that was needed for me to get the ghist of the plot.
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Ah yeah, thanks for reminding me!
I was thinking we could tackle it in the grace week after the official end? The last week is already quite a long page count, so I wasn’t keen to tack it onto the end there.
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Lovely Zenitendou people!
Next weekend we will be starting Chapter 5 with just four weeks left of this pick. If you’ve fallen behind with reading, why not just jump straight back in with us at Chapter 5?
All the stories are very independent of each other, so you shouldn’t be missing out on anything by skipping ahead
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Oof, I’m so behind D::: I will probably finish this book much later, I kinda got busy with other things, but thank you for the heads up! /o/
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No worries at all! Hope you’re able to read it at some point - it’s pretty fun!
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It’s so fun that my non-Japanese-reading family keep asking me what is happening each week, because they are enjoying my summaries of the stories!
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That’s awesome, heh! I’m gonna start sharing with my partner - get my story-telling muscles working
I’m honestly starting to consider getting volume 2 just because it seems like such good practice in a tadoku sense. The fact that every chapter contains a whole story arc keeps it always interesting.
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