/spoken-japanese-verbatim-text-transcript-of-a-tv-interview-with-anno-hideaki/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 /spoken-japanese-verbatim-text-transcript-of-a-tv-interview-with-anno-hideaki/#comment-644 Fri, 11 May 2007 06:27:16 +0000 /spoken-japanese-verbatim-text-transcript-of-a-tv-interview-with-anno-hideaki#comment-644 >Was he smiling as he explained the word?
Never saw the actual video so I don’t know, but like you said, it seems like deliberate irony. I laughed.

]]> /spoken-japanese-verbatim-text-transcript-of-a-tv-interview-with-anno-hideaki/#comment-642 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:26:46 +0000 /spoken-japanese-verbatim-text-transcript-of-a-tv-interview-with-anno-hideaki#comment-642 i wonder if 庵野さん realized the irony in his explanation of 衒学的　（「こういう言葉を使っていれば賢そうに見えると云う・・・」）, a word that is esoteric enough to warrant a hiragana rendering after its first transcription in the text.　Perhaps that was the whole idea, and he appreciated the audience’s laughter following his joke. Was he smiling as he explained the word? Perhaps it’s just one of those words that in it’s very use backhands the one who uses it.

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