JAPANESE  . Zenaku wo saiban suru tame no Virtue See also:

• VICE

vice-judging See also:

• SAKE

sake of mochiitaru yuitsu no hyojun we used unique See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard jiai no koi lade benevolence of conduct only kore nomi . this alone . It will be observed that in the above See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence there are two untranslated words, wo and wa . These belong to a See also:

• GROUP

group of four See also:

• AUXILIARY (from Lat. auxilium, help)

auxiliary particles called te ni wo ha (or wa), which serve to See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark the cases of nouns, te (or de) being the sign of the instrumental See also:

• ABLATIVE (Lat. ablativus, sc. cases, from ablatum, taken away)

ablative; ni that of the See also:

• DATIVE (Lat. dativus, giving or given, from dare, to give)

dative; wo that of the See also:

• OBJECTIVE, or OBJECT GLASS

objective, and wa that of the nominative . These exist in the Korean See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language also, but not in any other See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue . There are also polite and See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary forms of expression, often so different as to constitute distinct See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages; and there are a number of honorifics which frequently See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge the See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty of pronouns . Another marked peculiarity is that active agency is never attributed to neuter nouns . A Japanese does not say " the See also:

• POISON

poison killed him " but " he died on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the poison;" nor does he say " the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war has caused commodities to appreciate," but " commodities have appreciated in consequence of the war." That the language loses much force owing to this See also:

• LIMITATION, STATUTES OF

limitation cannot be denied: See also:

• METAPHOR

metaphor and See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory are almost completely banished . The difficulties that confront an Occidental who attempts to learn Japanese are enormous . There are three languages to be acquired: first, the ordinary colloquial; second, the polite colloquial; and, third, the written . The ordinary colloquial differs materially from its polite See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, and both are as unlike the written form as See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian is unlike See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Latin .

"Add to this," writes See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor B . H . See also:

• CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
• CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)

Chamberlain, " the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of committing to memory two syllabaries, one of which has many variant forms, and at least two or three thousand See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese ideographs, in forms standard and cursive —ideographs, too, most of which are susceptible of three or four different readings according to circumstance,—add, further, that all these kinds of written symbols are See also:

• APT

apt to be encountered pelt melt on the same See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page, and the task of mastering Japanese becomes almost Herculean." In view of all this there is a strong See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement in favour of romanizing the Japanese script: that is to say, abolishing the See also:

• IDEOGRAPH (Gr. i&Ea, idea, and 'yparked', to write)

ideograph and adopting in its See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

alphabet . But while every one appreciates the magnitude of the See also:

• RELIEF

relief that would thus be afforded, there has as yet been little substantial progress . A language which has been adapted from its See also:

• INFANCY

infancy to ideographic transmission cannot easily be fitted to phonetic uses . Dictionaries.—F . Brinkley, An Unabridged Japanese-See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary (See also:

• TOKYO (or TOKIO, formerly called Yedo)

Tokyo, 1896) ; Y . Shimada, English-Japanese Dictionary, (Tokyo, 1897) ; See also:

• WEBSTER
• WEBSTER, ALEXANDER (1707-1784)
• WEBSTER, BENJAMIN NOTTINGHAM (1797-1882)
• WEBSTER, DANIEL (1782-1852)
• WEBSTER, JOHN (fl. 1602-1624)
• WEBSTER, NOAH (1758-1843)
• WEBSTER, THOMAS (1773-1844)
• WEBSTER, THOMAS (1800-1886)

Webster's Dictionary, trans. into Japanese, (Tokyo . See also:

• LIGHTNING

Lightning . Exhalation . See also:

• ELECTRICITY

Electricity . Telegram .

Electric See also:

• LIGHT

light . Negative electricity . See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

Positive electricity . Thermo-electricity . Dynamic-electricity . See also:

• TELEPHONE (Gr. rjXs, far, and dxwvr7, voice)

Telephone .