Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6622 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 105 of 333 10 June 2012 at 9:20am | IP Logged |
Watching TV shows counts as movies in the Super Challenge, so you're not ignoring it completely.
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5984 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 106 of 333 10 June 2012 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
Very true. I didn't even pick up that the rules had changed with respect to books until I saw it on your blog!
I think I was being a bit too rigid in my approach. Having the blog actually makes me feel less inclined to do things because then I have to take the time and effort to write about them afterwards. I don't think writing English book or film reviews will help my Japanese to improve that much. I would do better to spend the time watching/reading more Japanese. I think I might stick with the challenge, but retire my blog.
I have made a list here of all the TV shows I can remember watching in the last couple of weeks and I'll log them on Twitter later. I shall also count Paradise Kiss (I think this is acceptable as a fifth of a book).
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 107 of 333 10 June 2012 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
Not being disrespectful to any bloggers out there :) I don't have the time to subscribe to --let alone keep current with-- every blog out there, even if relevant. Since presumably comments like
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are written fairly recently after seeing the actual information, I think it would be nice if, from now on, we enrich such comments just a little bit further with links like this:
so that casual readers can immediately check and find out --instead of spending a good ten minutes on it-- that it's a change in some HTLAL challenge rules and not some frightening spelling reform we're talking about ;)
Edited by mrwarper on 10 June 2012 at 3:22pm
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5984 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 108 of 333 10 June 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
Apologies, I will be sure to provide links more readily in future (but I am quite surprised that this log would pick up any casual readers at all!)
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 109 of 333 10 June 2012 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
Apologies for what? My post was to be taken light-heartedly; by 'casual readers' I meant that it's so long between passes that I really have to dig for anything older than three posts earlier -- I was really like 'what blog? what rules? what are you talking about?'. My apologies if I sounded too harsh, seems one smiley isn't always enough ;)
Edited by mrwarper on 10 June 2012 at 4:55pm
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5984 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 110 of 333 10 June 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged |
I guess I should have added a few smileys to my own response to relieve a little tension ;)
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6622 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 111 of 333 10 June 2012 at 10:00pm | IP Logged |
I've never really thought about casual readers either. I think I would be surprised if I had many readers outside of team い. I was reading some other people's logs for a while, but now I hardly even have time to read our teams' logs, so I don't read others very often. (Unless I'm procrastinating. This is a great place for that.)
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6087 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 112 of 333 11 June 2012 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
I've gotten a kick out of reading the logs written in other languages lately like schönewälder and emk for French. Cathrynn was posting in Japanese for a time but that was about a year ago (?) Have you guys considered writing your logs partially in Japanese/another language? It would take more time, but we'd get some kanji practice.
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