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Japanese Language Reading
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That’s the charm of ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 and 荒木 and ディオ.

May 15, Sat :cherry_blossom: calendar post

Week 7 of Spring 2022’s additional progress

I read an intriguing chapter of ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 today, so I’ll make an exception of writing more frequently.

Vocabularies of Note

  • ずたぼろ - shattered, in pieces - 襤褸(ぼろ) = rag, ずたずた is an onomatopeia
  • タフ - tough (but I don’t get what tough means anymore… :thinking: :interrobang:)
  • ダイナマイト - dynamite (I serious think along the line of 大生意図, :laughing:)
  • 不(ふ)敵(てき) - cheeky (rather than “peerless”)
  • 眼(まな)差(ざ)し - gaze (I include this one because WaniKani failed to teach about まなこ (e.g. 血眼) and まな)
  • 汚(お)点(てん) - dirt
  • 噛(か)ます - to force into someone’s mouth; to bluff / to wedge a wood
  • 血管(けっかん) - blood vessel
  • 抉(えぐ)る - to dig into
  • 歴(れき)史(し)上(じょう) - historical; important events
  • さっさと - quickly
  • 口(くち)車(ぐるま)に乗(の)る - to be brought in by wits
  • 施(ほどこ)す - to perform a ritual - 儀(ぎ)式(しき)をほどこす
  • 名(な)付(づ)け - christening, naming after (parents / family / namesake) - 許嫁(いいなずけ) = financee, also comes from this
  • 引(ひ)っ掛(か)け - trap, trick (question)
  • 外殻(がいかく) - outer shell (without the Furigana, I would imply a wrong reading {がら}.)
  • 取(と)り出(だ)す - to bring out
  • コロッセオ - colosseum (Italian spelling, JMDict only have コロッセウム counterpart)
  • ピアス - piercing (on mouth, nose)
  • 解(げ)毒(どく)剤(ざい) - antidote
  • 好(こう)敵手(てきしゅ) - worthy opponent
  • ブラックユーモア - black humor
  • 重(じゅう)婚(こん)罪(ざい) - bigamy (having two spouses, usually prohibited by law)
    • カーズ refuses to marry him, lol.
  • 賭(と)博(ばく)師(し) - gambler
  • 駆(か)け引(ひ)き - bargaining (reverse order of 引っ掛け)
  • 知恵(ちえ)の輪(わ) - (next chapter’s title :rofl: - phrase with a special meaning) mind puzzle

Names in Katakana, but have unshown English spelling

And English spellings are also chosen officially by the author (荒木), perhaps.

I have less than 1 day left of JOJO part vol 1. I’ll see what I can do.

Regarding Furigana generator

Regarding Furigana, I feel that I don’t want to bother improving the UserScript anymore. It’s easier to read visually to put it on the same line, using a punctuation (.) to separate phrases (and I might consider putting on the bottom row as well, if need arises). Furthermore, it is easier and more copy-able to include the Okurigana this way.

There are some edits and discussion below; but the edit is for #anchor URL

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