Tuesday, September 2, 2008

散文的

sanbunteki

prosaic, prose-like, in a prose style

I love the fact that the characters for prose literally mean 'scattered text'...

蝕む

musibamu

to eclipse, cover over, to occult

監獄

kangoku

prison

the second character is used more commonly in the compound for hell:

地獄 zigoku

謳歌

ouka

song of praise, eulogy, glorification

心中

sintyuu

true motives

but what I found interesting was that these same characters, when read sindyuu instead, mean:

lovers' suicide...

奇しくも

kusikumo

mysteriously

奇異

ki'i

odd, strange