I just looked over that excerpt and the romajii burned my eyes.

kazelee Wrote:

cb4960 Wrote:(And the rest of the book uses only romaji - where's the Japanese?!).

It was lost within awesomeness that is the western alphabet. It does that sometimes, the western alphabet. It's so awesome and flawless it just can't help it.

Every day I like reading your posts more and more.

Also: I nominate that in solidarity with the linguaphiles discussing Dan Brown on livejournal we use "Jesus Christ. Let's try the kanji." as our new moniker for getting smacked in the face with the captain-obvious-bat.

QuackingShoe Wrote:

JimmySeal Wrote:I've never seen Dan Brown as anything more than a hack, though I'll admit his stories have an appeal in a cheap, hack-ish kinda way.

Whenever someone actually acknowledges this, my heart gives a little fluttter. Thank you.
Especially in light of the new movie. God damn.

The Constitution Conundrum

Its like a script for Lost*. (except there are not enough time jumps)


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*I presume it is. I don't watch Lost, but each time I have seen part of an episode it seems to have the same formula.

I think you're reading too much into the post; "struggled with kanji for 17 years" could mean almost anything, and there's certainly a lot more to kanji than is taught by Heisig. I bet most native speakers would agree with the statement "I've struggled with kanji for X years)," where X = their age.
If we're collecting Dan Brown reviews,
The Dan Brown Code
excerpt:

Quote:I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this...

Talking about worst prose stylists...

welldone101 Wrote:Also: I nominate that in solidarity with the linguaphiles discussing Dan Brown on livejournal we use "Jesus Christ. Let's try the kanji." as our new moniker for getting smacked in the face with the captain-obvious-bat.

Yes, but you have to capitalize the K. Let's try the Kanji.