resolve Wrote:wrighttak: Re the sources of sentences in the green goddess: From http://old.jat.org/jtt/gg5review.html :

Quote:The strongest point of the new GG is its example phrases and sentences. While some examples have been carried over intact from the previous edition, most were newly written or revised for the new edition by native Japanese editors chosen for their knowledge of and feeling for Japanese. It is not easy to create short yet typical and illustrative examples of word usage, and many times I was struck by the naturalness of the Japanese examples. The examples were translated by native speakers of English, and our translations were checked for accuracy by Japanese editors. As one of those editors remarked to me, thanks to its wealth and variety of examples, the dictionary is valuable not only as a look-up tool but also as a book to be browsed and read at length.

That's interesting. Do you have a copy of the book or did you get an online version? I'm quite interested in finding out whether the sentences were written by the editors or whether they were taken from various sources and if so, which ones. If anyone has a copy of the book then I'd imagine it would say so somewhere in it.

Why don't you mail the author of that article? http://www.gally.net/contact.html