What the heck is Decameron?

10 daysね.

Ah I never knew that! Thanks for lesson lol.

Future reference: Try Google. It's the first hit: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e..._Decameron

"The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Some believe many parts of the tales are indebted to the influence of The Book of Good Love. Many notable writers, such as Geoffrey Chaucer, are said to have drawn inspiration from The Decameron (See Literary sources and influence of the Decameron below).

The title is a portmanteau of two Greek words meaning "10" (δέκα déka) and "day" (ἡμέρα hēméra).[1]"

I also think the definition is mentioned in the RevTK stories... ;p

Oh yeah I did look up the definition on google. I thought it was a about a book or series so I didn't care to read through it all, didn't know the definition was somewhere in there lol.
Rtk did say something about a group traveling for ten days of Decameron but I had no idea that it meant Decameron actually means 10 days.

Jenkoi Wrote:Oh yeah I did look up the definition on google. I thought it was a about a book or series so I didn't care to read through it all, didn't know the definition was somewhere in there lol.
Rtk did say something about a group traveling for ten days of Decameron but I had no idea that it meant Decameron actually means 10 days.

hehe. It's not like it's a 'real' word, it's just a title. The 'meaning' stems from the famous text more than the portmanteau components.

Heisig explains the meaning in the story for decameron as well, it's right there in the book 'a block of ten days'.

Heisig explains many things. He says 里 is a computer and 田 is brains.

buonaparte Wrote:Heisig explains many things. He says 里 is a computer and 田 is brains.

Not quite. He says that instead of using the more abstract meaning of those items when they appear in other kanji, to instead use more visually stimulating images. I can imagine things happening to an old IBM computer (getting burned, being filled with dirt, becoming an android, etc.) than I can with a distance that's about equal to 4.1 km.

That aside, there are spreadsheets that offer some more basic meanings to kanji which helps zone in them. Sometimes the keyword is enough, but not always.

buonaparte Wrote:Heisig explains many things. He says 里 is a computer and 田 is brains.

What I meant was: he actually explains what a 'decameron' is.

I thought it was funny.

Though I agree... when one first reads the Decameron description, you don't really know if Heisig is just making it up or not if you aren't familiar with the term. or at least I had my doubts about when I first read it.