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    Thread: I'm stumped by this sentence...can someone take a shot at it?
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I understood it as Quote:I began to wonder whether other people were just greedy nit-pickers.
leecha2 The Japanese language 14 2,924 2014-07-09, 7:04 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
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My interpretations: quanticism Wrote:今日も今日とていい天気。 「とて」 has a meaning similar to 「さえ」 or 「でさえ」, i.e. 「今日も今日とて」 has a meaning closer to "today as well, even today, ...", strengthening the 「も」. quanticis...
leecha2 The Japanese language 8,332 1,454,232 2014-05-16, 6:19 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

yudantaiteki Wrote:Right -- the あらん is an archaic conjunction that expresses either volition or something that will happen. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~houmei/kobun.htm#s64 for details (set Shift_JIS ...
leecha2 The Japanese language 8,332 1,454,232 2014-05-13, 2:48 pm