Cool Compounds: Part 1
Friday, December 19th, 2008
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I feel that I’ve overloaded recent blogs, making us all work way too hard. There’s been too much consideration of fine distinctions between similar kanji, too many examples, too many links to click, and too much to read.
So it’s time for an extended vacation from all that hard work—from all that thinking. (It sometimes seems as though we’re never allowed to give our brains a rest, doesn’t it? So much to stuff in there and keep straight.)
I’ve decided that, over the next month or so, I’ll return to the thing that inspires me most about kanji—cool compounds. In each blog, I’ll present some great compounds, grouping them according to a theme (just to provide a reassuring sense of order) and not saying a lot more about them. OK, there’s my cue to stop talking and let you enjoy some combinations that sparkle, sizzle, and inspire with their rightness! Read the rest of this entry »