Reading Club

[coco]

richvh wrote:
and 容貌上のコンプレックス (an inferiority complex over his appearance? How does 上 fit in?)

「○○上(じょう) の」あるいは「○○上、」という阜ｻはよく使います。
1)教育上の理由により、そのテレビ番組を見ることは勧められない。
2)経営上の判断から、その要望は受け入れられない。

1)の場合は、「教育的見地から、そのテレビ番組は〜」に置き換え可煤B
2)は「経営という視点から判断すると、その要望は〜」の意味になります。
共通するのはviewpointでしょうか。
「容貌上のコンプレックス」は、Richさんの解釈で合っていると思います。
(前後がつながれば、わざわざ訳す必要はない言葉だと思います)

*但し、「上の」は何にでも使えるわけではありません。
「政治上の判断で」は「政治的判断で」と阜ｻするのが一般的です。

[richvh]

cocoさん、教えてくれてありがとうございます。

[keith712]

私もcocoさんとRichさんの解釈をありがとうございます！

cocoさんは書いた：

[url]...「上の」は何にでも使えるわけではありません。[/url]

my translation: 「上の」is not used for anything (like) this purpose
am I close?

also if I had been patient and read a couple more posts I would have seen that Mukadesan had spotted the 気の枝　typo way before me... thank you all for being so encouraging!!!

Keith

[richvh]

keith712 wrote:
私もcocoさんとRichさんの解釈をありがとうございます！

cocoさんは書いた：

[url]...「上の」は何にでも使えるわけではありません。[/url]

my translation: 「上の」is not used for anything (like) this purpose
am I close?

I think it's closer to "「上の」 is not always used like this"

[clay]

One thing I was thinking was to use the chat to have big weekly meetups to discuss progress -- or even maybe, if you can, create a permanent Book Club room in the chat, where we can go every day to have smaller daily discussions. Because everybody's all around the world, I wouldn't make this the focus, but more of a good addition to it.

Sounds like a good idea.

I think I should create a whole forum devoted to this. That way, each thread can be about a different aspect (translation, problem passages, overall meaning and individual questions). We have a lot of forums right now, but I will put this at the bottom of the list to keep it a little neater.

If that sounds alright with everyone, we can start discussing there.

Clay

[tanuki]

Very good idea!

[clay]

Take a look at the bottom of the forums page. There is a whole section for the reading club and a starter forum there too!

If just about everyone has the book, let's get started. We can also discuss using Chat or an Email list as well.

[aKuMu]

yes, I finaly got my book too

[coco]

Clay-san, I'm afraid most moderators of 夜のくもざる(exception: Rich-san, AJBryant-san) forums don't know even what is a 夜のくもざる. or even if they know what is 夜のくもざる, they don't seem to like participation to Reading Club, so far.
If I am wrong, I say my apology.

[AJBryant]

I haven't had time to start doing the reading (a combination of a rush translation project and Holy Week have kept me from fun reading stuff.

I figured I'd start up when a new story thread was started... but should I go through the current thread?

Tony