Good News and Great News

[montydrei]

Hello, my three loyal readers.

Some of you may know that there is a test of Japanese language ability here called the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. I had taken the most difficult level (Level 1) when I first arrived in Japan and failed. Two years later, I took it again with much better results.

Comments

[lachlanm]

---囍囍囍--- 恭惜你們！ ---囍囍囍---

[montydrei]

謝謝！

...I think.

[montydrei]

I just now realized that 恭惜 is probably a typo for 恭喜.

[lachlanm]

Ah, so it is. I have no idea how that happened, since I distinctly remember looking for the character 喜, finding it, and berating myself for forgetting that it was the same one as in 喜歡. In my defense, the radical on 惜 seems appropriate for 喜 too. That's the good news. The bad news is that, if 恭惜 has any meaning at all, it's something like "respectful condolences."

Sigh. Why do character input schemes have to be so problematic?

[montydrei]

It's just the nature of inputting language on computers. Typos are probably much more fun in languages with ideographic writing systems and limited sound inventories, though.