Intro
For background/how to use this series, see the first post.
I'm working on a couple of longer pieces right now, but wanted to get something up in the meantime to keep the momentum going. Here's a tweet I came across the other day and liked.
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どなたかのツイートで『「小説」が庶民に流行すると、殺人事件が減ったという。驚くべき事に、小説を読んで初めて「自分以外の人間に感情がある」と知った人間が多く存在したのだ』と読んだ事がある。小説・映画・漫画・アニメは100%分かり合えない人類を30%くらいは分かり合えるようにできるのだ。
— クロマッサン＠或図13サークル参加 (@kkrrmmttssuu) October 6, 2019
Vocab List
| Kanji | Reading | English Gloss | Frequency | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| できる | to be able to | 1949.53 | ||
| 自分 | じぶん | oneself | 1010.73 | |
| 多い | おおい | many, numerous | 630.11 | |
| 知る | しる | to know | 542.19 | |
| 人間 | にんげん | human being | 446.79 | |
| 以外 | いがい | other than, outside of | 172.99 | |
| 読む | よむ | to read | 170.88 | |
| 初めて | はじめて | for the first time | 154.27 | |
| 存在する | そんざいする | to exist | 151.54 | |
| 映画 | えいが | movie | 94.34 | |
| 驚く | おどろく | to be surprised | 92.77 | |
| 感情 | かんじょう | feelings, emotions | 74.97 | |
| 小説 | しょうせつ | novel (fiction book) | 50.97 | |
| 人類 | じんるい | humanity | 41.36 | |
| 減る | へる | to decrease | 37.33 | |
| 殺人事件 | さつじんじけん | murders, murder incidents | 25.77 | compound, 殺人 is 25.77, 事件 is 184.65 |
| 漫画 | まんが | manga | 23.35 | |
| 庶民 | しょみん | commoners, common people | 13.06 | |
| くらい | about, around (estimate) | 12.65 | ||
| アニメ | anime | 10.09 | ||
| どなた | polite form of だれ?/who? | 9.53 | ||
| 流行する | りゅうこうする | to be popular | 6.96 | |
| 分かり合える | わかりあえる | to understand one another | 0.72 | |
| どなたか | someone (polite) | 0 | compound form | |
| ツイート | tweet | 0 | too new to show up in available corpora |
Grammar List
- の
- で
- non-question marker か
- が
- に
- conditionals
- という
- past tense
- べき
- て初めて
- basic "to be" verbs
- defining and describing
- the explaining の (see also)
- past tense + 事がある
- は
- potential forms
- を
- くらい
- nominalizers
- other uses of よう (as/like)
Translation
Kuromassan @ Participating in Aru Toshokan nite 13 Club
(Aru Toshokan nite looks like a doujinshi event of some kind)
I once read a tweet that said, "When novels are all the rage among the common people, the murder rate decreases. It's surprising to hear, but there were many people who realized that people other than themselves had feelings only after reading a novel for the first time. If you didn't understand 100% of humanity before, novels, movies, manga, and anime can help you understand 30%.