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🦋 積ん読
(In which I am glad to rename my "Reading List" posts after a Japanese word I read about today, and thanks Martha for putting this on my radar)
posted evening of Friday, August 10th, 2012 ➳ More posts about Tsundoku ➳ More posts about Readings
From a FB commenter: «This is a mild pun in Japanese. ç©ã‚“ã§ãŠã tsunde-oku is a compound verb meaning "pile up (something) for later use", more slangily pronounced tsundoku, but then doku by itself, if written èª, is the Chinese character-root meaning "read", so swapping that into the word makes it look like a Sinitic compound noun instead of a native-Japanese compound verb.»
posted morning of August 11th, 2012 by Jeremy
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