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Well hello again. It’s that time of year once more, and Caught*Red-handed (through a genuine dislike for the 25th day of December) is completely bypassing the subject and moving directly onto New Year! And with that, as advertised tirelessly on Twitter over the past month or so, Caught*Red-handed launches the first of (hopefully many) New [...]
So, occasionally, I allow the geek in me to freely roam the streets. It’s a ‘not-very-often-occurrence’, mostly as Mrs Grumbleweed at No 26 gets real scared as he walks passed, so he’s usually kept under close lock and key. Today though, he was permitted to pull together his favourite kanji of the moment. Sad, he [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my introduction to Japanese came from a desire to learn a language comprised of symbols. Nothing more, nothing less. Before stumbling across Japanese, having always been the avid student of romance languages, I had thought that alphabets were ace and symbols were stupid. How could a [...]
Language is fascinating. It’s organic, living, breathing, tangled, misinterpreted, overused, misrepresented, joyous and troublesome. Looking back into history, it seems that most languages have sprawled out from their epicentres, and, wherever people have gone, they have followed, like ivy left to grow of its own accord, assimilating and overtaking everything in their wake. Languages are [...]