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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. Interesting comment, and I'll leave it right there, but, as a pleased owner of the New Nelson, and a few other very nice Tuttles, I'm sorry to hear that they're not what they were. Hmm, too many commas in that sentence, but what the hey. Dan
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