Quick Manga Question
Jun. 14th, 2007 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So the compilations of weekly or monthly manga serial issues are called tankoubon in Japanese.
Is it appropriate to use that term for the English compilation volumes?
So the compilations of weekly or monthly manga serial issues are called tankoubon in Japanese.
Is it appropriate to use that term for the English compilation volumes?
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Date: 2007-06-14 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-16 03:08 am (UTC)That's what I thought ... I mean, when the terminology exists, it often comes over more or less intact ... .
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Date: 2007-06-15 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-16 03:10 am (UTC)Well, I worry about sounding like I'm trying to prove I know more than I actually do ... . ;-)
So how's by you? Your exams are all finished now? You're free for a couple of months, maybe?
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Date: 2007-06-16 10:47 am (UTC)I still have U.S. History and Physics to go (Tuesday and Thursday, respectively), but I've finished up English and Math B, which weren't so bad. Free for a few months, I am. Maybe now I can write something.
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Date: 2007-06-20 08:29 pm (UTC)I finally wrote something else too! It's being beta'ed ... . I've outlined like 6 stories, and hadn't been able to get around to doing anything with them because I was trying to finish another project first.
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Date: 2007-06-20 11:13 pm (UTC)You outline! Finally, someone else who does!
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Date: 2007-06-21 02:34 am (UTC)XD
It's probably doing it too much honor to call it outlining, but I can't think of a better word for it. Basically I ramble on descriptively about what happens in the story, with an occasional bit of dialog if I've already thought of something that sounds right. It's like what would happen if I were to summarize a story I'd read, complete with my favorite lines of dialog, without worrying about spoilers.
Before I get even that far, I've usually daydreamed a good deal of it while walking to or from the Metro station or while waiting to fall asleep. And I'll continue to do that afterward while I'm "incubating" the idea, until I feel like actually writing.
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Date: 2007-06-15 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-15 06:16 am (UTC)How do I always end up so off-subject. It's all your fault Chomiji! You're so likeable!
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:22 am (UTC)b3n-chan, you say it "vahl-yum"? Did your family come from farther south originally? It sounds like you have a little Appalachia in there ... I had a friend from the Lynchburg area who spoke like that (she called her hometown "Lenchburg").
I have a little NYC in my speech despite always living in the Washington, DC area (except for 4 years of college in Charlottesville, VA) because both my parents came from the Bronx. For instance, the hot, dark brown caffeinated stuff I drink in the morning is "caw-fee" not "coh-fee."
I love accents and regional speech variation and that kind of stuff.
I'm always wandering off onto other topics and so I'm not surprised when the stuff on my LJ does the same. There's no on-topic requirement in this headspace!
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Date: 2007-06-18 06:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-20 08:31 pm (UTC):-D I'll do my best!
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:14 am (UTC)Heh, if you say it's kosher (talk about mising terminology!!!), I'll risk it!
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Date: 2007-06-18 06:58 am (UTC)