This is the Beginning of the discussion for chapters 4-6! Here is a link to the main thread for this book club . How are you doing? poll I did not pre-read the chapter this week, so the vocabulary list is blank. Please help me fill it in! There’s only a tiny bit of Shougi this week, but at least …

Hmmm so it seems 異母の糸 is a reference to 揖保乃糸 which apparently is a rather famous soumen brand. Both 異母 and 揖保 are pronounced いぼ, and の’s original kanji is 乃. [image]

I have a grammar mystery/ question [IMG_20201003_213301] I thought maybe the たって in どれくらいたってだっけ is derived from 経つ-- as in , but why is it in て form, and what is the だ there for? Could it be a typo? (Should be た instead of だ ?)

[image] Wildjinjer: I thought maybe the たって in どれくらいたってだっけ is derived from 経つ-- as in , but why is it in て form, and what is the だ there for? Could it be a typo? (Should be た instead of だ ?) I believe the だ is part of the expression だっけ, that basically means that one is trying to remember som…

[image] 2OC3aOdKgwSGlxfz: だっけ That’s really weird that it’s in jisho as an expression. It’s a grammar particle…the particle is actually っけ , it only has だ before it when it follows nouns or na adjectives. After verbs, it usually just follows the past tense plain verb: [Screenshot_20201003-2243…

My apologies. I jumped too quickly to the conclusion that it was just だっけ. Certainly the grammar feels strange in that sentence. Sadly I can’t seem to find any explanation of why the て-form would be followed by だ there :thinking:

I definitely love how over-the-top the cats are :grin:

[image] Wildjinjer: Could it be a typo? I’m inclined to say so. I’ve only ever found a handful of actual typos in my Japanese reading (more often than not it’s just something I misunderstood), but it makes perfect sense if you look at it as たってた rather than たってだ. I was on the fence about it …

This is the beginning of the discussion for Chapter 5. Here is a link to the Main Thread , with the schedule. And, here is a link to the Vocabulary Spreadsheet . …And here is a link to my Guide to Shougi Pieces , to help you read the Shougi parts. So, how are you doing? poll

That was a nice chapter. When Nikaido first appeared in the anime

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Nikkaido is my favorite character. He’s so gung-ho and romantic about his Shougi.

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