Singularity on the Plane

By accident, I found out that I have a folder “War” inside my “Readings” folder. That’s weird, since I don’t remember saving web pages or books about war.

Inside, there is exactly one file, named “fuzzy_book.pdf”. “Fuzzy” as in “fuzzy logic”? What was it doing inside a “War” folder?

So, I double clicked it. Alas, the file was damaged!!! Opening it with Notepad, I couldn’t find any meaningful content.

My best conjecture is that I was in a warnet (net cafe) and downloaded a book about fuzzy logic, saving it in a folder named “War” (for WARnet). I then forgot to move the file to its correct place, while the download itself was corrupted.

The previous 8 posts (this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this) are worth 2 weeks of study. During that period I learned 173 kanji and 1005 words. Now my kanji count is 1086 and my word count is 5954.

Wow, I passed 1000 kanji. Quite a milestone :). 嬉しい出来事！ The view is quite nice here, but I’m probably still halfway to the summit. That is indeed a wonder of the mountain called “literacy”. The higher you climb, the clearer the view below becomes.

Preparing the word dump reports is very tiring… Probably more tiring than learning the kanji itself…

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The story continues… I’ve managed to finish the last 47 minutes of act 1! Will probably continue to act 2.

18 kanji:

幼忘邪悔掟冠錆牢芝塗償居誓将砂性城罪

And 105 words:

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This year Morning Musume turns 10, so Tsunku made a commemorative unit, “Morning Musume Tanjou Juunen Kinentai” (can’t he choose a shorter name?!?). It consists of Abe Natsumi (1st gen), Iida Kaori (1st gen), Goto Maki (3rd gen), Niigaki Risa (5th gen), and Kusumi Koharu (7th gen). Yes, only the odd-numbered generations. It’s very great that Niigaki Risa is chosen, because she usually never gets the spotlight.

The song is a very nice ballad with an Asian theme (both its musical instruments and its lyrics). Definitely a worthy song for a commemorative unit.

I gathered 7 kanji from this song:

讃絆昏轟魅惑励

And 33 words (14 real + 19 side effects). The stats:

• Previous “average new words/song”: 21.95
• New words in this song: 14
• New “average new words/song”: 21.57

The words…

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This is the coupling track of Morning Musume Tanjou Juunen Kinentai’s Bokura ga Ikiru MY ASIA. A song with an enka feel (bleh…), and lots of references to Morning Musume songs.

7 kanji:

唄降浪漫嗚浮呼

And 36 words (8 real + 28 side effects). The stats:

• Previous “average new words/song”: 22.68
• New words in this song: 8
• New “average new words/song”: 21.95

And the words…

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From Morning Musume’s 31st single. I don’t really like the overuse of “Na na na” and “Sha la la” in this song. It’s as if Tsunku was being lazy. The PV however is very nice, walking at a farm and spending the night at a campsite.

10 new kanji:

若距離贅抱澄貸義聴褒

For this song, there are 15 new words. However, when I learn a kanji I try to learn some of its compounds. Therefore I end up learning extra words not in the song. There are 33 such side-effect words. This totals to 48 words.

As with previous song dumps, here are the stats. Note that the side-effect words are not counted.

• Previous “average new words/song”: 23.11
• New words in this song: 15
• New “average new words/song”: 22.68

About the “side-effect words” stuff, I’ll probably dump them separately in the next dumping period.

Anyway, here are all the words…

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Aozora Bunko is the Japanese equivalent of Project Gutenberg. It is a digital library of copyright-expired books!

I finally managed to learn all kanji in its front page! やったっ～! My next plan is of course to pick one book and study it through. It should be torturing fun.

29 kanji:

秀棚臨虎企雄巻届尋網収熊滅纏覗塵殖紛援塚携準提支過修応増能

And 197 words…

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I am now delving through the dialog boxes… Still not yet done.

18 kanji:

効範含露頻容概挿質奨隔憶請推裏限基致

And 131 words…

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Hard kanjification means traversing my word list from the beginning and entering the kanji for kana words which actually has a kanji. When a new kanji is needed, I will learn that kanji.

I learned 49 kanji:

蕎薇葱缶叭臍薔喇袋狡凄瑞綴槌杖狸脱扉床濡塀豚瓶姫婦脳秘机値腹触獄婚怪武劇済弁警洗縮似背禅濯為是狭臓

And 217 words…

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Words and kanji from various sources. Notable sources are Hello! Morning and Michishige Sayumi’s radio show.

35 new kanji:

干密臭既暴乃牙超幕賛珍影奥懸塾潜佳猛汗叩占補押留境環独制適接枚策逆尾尻

And 238 words…

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