I’m pretty sure this is a side effect of me having a reading history that tilts old. I should look at the publication dates of my reading material and find the average sometime 
although I think I maybe learned it initially from Dear Friends which came out in the early 2000s.
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Yeah for what it’s worth, not everyone has left it behind. I actually just learned that word a few days ago from Summer Pockets, which came out in 2018 (and in the narration which is meant to be from the perspective of a kid, so it’s not like it was used in elderly speech or something).
It’s an interesting experience at times in language learning, having to go out of my way to learn words so I can understand them while also remembering not to use those ones, heh.
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Day 10 and 11 
Yesterday I finished chapter 2 of 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん、as a part of the IBC.
And today I reviewed part 2.1 of 透明カメレオン, because I didn’t look up any words or grammar the first time I read it.
Very very very sleeeepy! Which makes me even more proud that I’m still reading everyday.
My Home Post
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It was!! Thank you for digging it up. I will consider these carefully 
Ooh, that sounds like a great setup. I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks, and best of luck to you too. 
Who knows, maybe I’ll be joining the Zero Escape club soon as well!
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I read chapter 8 of 夜カフェ today! I wasn’t sure I’d be able to, since it was 16 pages, making it the longest chapter in the book (I think). The hardest part was trying to read a very detailed description of ハナビ stenciling, cutting out letters, coloring with pencil, heating and cooling plastic sheets, etc while sitting in a waiting room where pop music was being played loudly. (The one in the waiting room was me, not ハナビ.) In fairness, having never scrapbooked, it’s possible I might not have fully understood the process in English either. (And now I also know that my eyesight has not changed and my eyes look healthy. 
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Today I translated 6 pages of よつばと！I’ve been neglecting uni for a few days in favor of Japanese, so I should cut back some (more than I’d like)
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The flowers above the “Day #” links to my post for the previous day, and the flowers below link to the next day, except for the latest day ofc, they link somewhere special 
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Today I wanted to read something fun, so I read a chapter of ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 🛵 Volume 5.
Nice words:
素茶 - just a simple cup of tea
ウケねらい - playing to the crowd
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Lol, same. Just caught up to end of 2.4 to not be too incredibly far behind the spoiler talk. On that note -
Mini spoiler talk
I also currently suspect the person that you all seemed to suspect at this point. Though if we are playing by normal murder mystery rules then anyone you suspect at the half way point definitely isn’t the murderer, so maybe it’s not him 
It is also probably not 大中 but I want him to get some comeuppance for being terrible so it would be nice if it was him (I do find it a bit odd that he hasn’t got on more trouble. Like there was some comment from 森崎 that he couldnt do anything about him because the head university guy likes him but still, he got caught by a police officer trying to break into the student dorms to get to a student he has some crush on and has had no repurcussions at all apparently??? Also how on earth does watchman guy that is always asleep drunk when people are breaking into the dormitories still have his job now there has been an actual murder on his watch?? This university is not a good university)
I also am rowing back a little from my “片山 is too competent” complaint because he was pretty incompetent at quite a few points in my reading today and yesterday, especially when questioning 大中. It’s still a lot less pronounced than I thought it would be based on the start though, and everyone else is incompetent too, except from Holmes 
In my reading today the idiom/saying 犬も食わない came up and I hadn’t heard of it before, so I also read this short kotobank article on it: 犬も食わぬとは - コトバンク
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Some of those children’s stories are really funny! My Level 0 Graded Readers are on a kid’s level, but the stories are very entertaining. Maybe because I am a retired 1st-2nd grade teacher, and my brain is on their level?!
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やった! Despite my day being pretty packed with uni and sports, I still managed to do my Wanikani, Bunpro Reviews and to read chapter 9 of よつばと!
I think I understood even less in this chapter than in the ones before, maybe because the vocabulary is (probably) usually used in action movies etc.
Ive also noticed how useful kanji can be to read a sentence correctly. it said はなから and i just could get it. When i looked at the translation it said “out of your nose” and it made perfect sense, but it would’ve been easier to understand if it said 鼻から ^^
Looking forward to chapter 10 for tomorrow :))
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Mini spoiler talk
This “university” is a joke, definitely. Morisaki did speak of corruption, though, and while I had initially dismissed the 学長 as a suspect because he was too obvious, we haven’t heard of him since, which is suspicious. And he was in favour of everything Morisaki opposed, 大中 and construction company included.
As for Katayama, ha, I wouldn’t go as far as to say he’s competent, but he’s at least functional around dead bodies and women, and I expected him not to be. 
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April 11th!
I read chapter 48 of Yotsuba today, which was the final chapter of Volume 7.
It was an especially cute chapter since it had lots of animals.
The panel on page 197 where everybody was applauding the cow really made me laugh. And the whole of page 191 where she’s befriending the cow was super sweet.
I also read 3 chapters of Shirokuma Cafe. I’m enjoying the sound-alike puns even though they are almost always vocab I don’t know yet.
Ooh, this looks adorable! I’ve added it to my to-read list!
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more 三毛猫 chat
Yeah! I’m actually a bit unsure how much were meant to be like “oh wow this place is terribly run” and how much of it is just part of the general kind of farcical humour/tone of this book where everyone is a bit of a blundering cartoon character (which I am enjoying 
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ooooh yeah, I’d done pretty much the same thing and then forgotten him when new shiny suspects turned up, but I would be surprised if he doesn’t come much more into play in later chapters (I’m not sure I suspect him of the student murders but he has to be on the suspect list for morisaki for sure)
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aaand even more 三毛猫 spoiler chat (spoilers up to 2.4)
Yeah, the student murders seem to be more of a mystery, because in my mind we probably haven’t seen the killer yet - who do we even know that the students wouldn’t recognize by sight?
Morisaki on the other hand had his share of enemies, at home and university both. Now why would someone go to all the trouble of staging a closed room mystery is the question. 大中 must be at least indirectly involved in this - his ridiculous distraction was way too well timed.
Also, what is it with Morisaki reportedly pushing people away? I mean, I wouldn’t necessarily take 富田 at his word, but Morisaki did seem intent to push Yukiko into Katayama’s arms.
And what is her role in all this, exactly?
And of course there’s Hayashi’s mystery, and Harumi’s mystery. Too much for a small cat to solve (because I’m sure no one else will). Can it be that it is all connected? Maybe the key to the mystery will be Katayama’s お見合い?
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Day 10-11 / Calendar
Didn’t write a post on the 11th, because I basically fell into my bed and then it was morning already, so I’m combining them.
Didn’t get much reading done, barely read a page or so spread across both days, so there’s some reading to catch up with. But 仕方がない eh?
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I’ve heard that one before and honestly have been tempted to bring it into English.
Spoiler talk reply 三毛猫ホームズの推理
I personally don’t suspect 林 and am waiting for an ultracurveball of someone no one expected, but that’s just me. I want it to be like some jilted ex-professor or something. TBH even where I’m at now (almost 70% done) there’s not been much movement on that particular case although other pieces of intrigue have unfolded. I think it’s (kind of predictably) being saved for the very, very end.
Edit: Also I didn’t reply to the rest of the spoiler talk…because I’d spoil it 
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I’m reading every day it’s just that I don’t have time to post. Today I read 50 pages and finished the first volume of The Quintessential Quintuplets. It took a long time but I found some characters in a manga I can relate to. Lol it would be awesome having four twins sister we could learn japanese together and go to the JLPT and fail it together.
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It would sound perfectly natural I think, no one would question it at all. Let’s start using it!
I’m choosing to believe that it’s based on the fact that a dog - unlike most cats - will eat anything, and not on the fact that some people used to (and still do) feed dogs the most disgusting leftovers no one else would touch.
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Read about 6600 characters today, so not bad! Not a lot to say – it took ages but I got distracted by a friend asking me about other stuff written in Japanese so I wasn’t totally wasted time, haha. I actually managed to go back and read a lot more last night so even that shorter day didn’t end up being so short 
He has a point here!
Two new wonderful words today. First off, 肩車 (かたぐるま), giving someone a ride on one’s shoulders. It’s shoulder car! 
The second is 石鹸 (せっけん) which is just soap, but… look at it. They put a whole soap dispenser in the kanji. Very nice of them.
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