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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > necoandjeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > >Back when I first started studying it didn't take me long to understand that > >I should steer away from Tuttle. They hadn't taken the time or trouble to > >update any of their books from the occupation era. I guess I'm thankful now > >for having such a diverse vocabulary but I did not need to be learning words > >like 蓄音機 or 女中 during my first year of studying Japanese... > > A wee bit unfair. They did publish Nelson, S&H's The Kanji Dictionary, > The New Nelson, Heshall, etc. Very much post-occupation, although the > original Nelson did have far too much pre-war vocabulary. > > Of course the Tuttle of today is a different beast from what it was > a few years back. I won't say much in public, but I wouldn't touch them > now with the proverbial barge-pole. Then maybe it was just that my local bookstore stocked only their trash because I can't think of one good Tuttle book from when I was studying in the late 80s. Jeff
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