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By: Helen Fields » Blog Archive » DotW: Sanseido’s Concise English Dictionary

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:07:42 +0000

[...] readers of Dictionary of the Week may remember it as one of the first dictionaries to be featured: Langenscheidt Japanese. It was a great dictionary for a beginner, but, as I said in that entry, eventually I got sick of [...]

By: Helen Fields » Blog Archive » Langenscheidt

Helen Fields » Blog Archive » Langenscheidt — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:51:51 +0000

[...] Three observations on Langenscheidt, the publisher of two of my Dictionaries of the Week thus far (German) (Japanese): [...]

By: Helen Fields » Blog Archive » DotW: Langenscheidt Universal German Dictionary

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:42:07 +0000

[...] obscenities: Yes! Interesting – the other Langenscheidt dictionary I’ve written about, this one, didn’t. My mother asked why I include this in the dictionary stats, so here’s the [...]

By: Bill R.

Bill R. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:43:36 +0000

Hey Helen,
My Dad used to tell me a WWII true story about the passwords that our allies used to trip-up the Japanese during that war.
The Japanese have always had a hard time pronouncing the letter “L,”, since “L” is not in their vocabulary — hence allies used “L” in their passwords such as”lollipop” or, especially, “lollapalooza” to identify them.
The Japanese would wind up saying either “rorripop” or “rorraparooza”,– and get caught!.
Thus, today, when we used to say “that’s a lollapalooza”, it probably expressed positive excitement about something.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:07:00 +0000

Why, I can’t tell you that. It’s a secret! Also, I’m not sure yet.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:08:40 +0000

I never knew exactly what each of the three types of characters did until now. I learned something new! Yeah! I like this DotW feature. What’s up next?

By: Helen Fields » Blog Archive » DotW: Langenscheidt Japanese M CIKU 词库

Helen Fields » Blog Archive » DotW: Langenscheidt Japanese M CIKU 词库 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:59:06 +0000

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