Re: Revision of A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese

necoandjeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
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(B>Back when I first started studying it didn't take me long to understand that
(B>I should steer away from Tuttle. They hadn't taken the time or trouble to
(B>update any of their books from the occupation era. I guess I'm thankful now
(B>for having such a diverse vocabulary but I did not need to be learning words
(B>like $BC_2;5!(B or $B=wCf(B during my first year of studying Japanese...
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(BA wee bit unfair. They did publish Nelson, S&H's The Kanji Dictionary,
(BThe New Nelson, Heshall, etc. Very much post-occupation, although the 
(Boriginal Nelson did have far too much pre-war vocabulary.
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(BOf course the Tuttle of today is a different beast from what it was 
(Ba few years back. I won't say much in public, but I wouldn't touch them
(Bnow with the proverbial barge-pole.
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(B-- 
(BJim Breen
(Bhttp://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
(BComputer Science & Software Engineering,
(BMonash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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