Letters From the Far East
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Most of these languages have an unhappy power of building up elaborate verbal forms, particularly gerunds, with the result that, though they may be excellent as a means for simple and direct conversation, they are apt to become intolerably complicated for literary purposes. It is with diffidence that I criticize a language of which I have only a smattering, like Japanese ; still, even a smattering of Chinese enables one to see with what force and point its pregnant monosyllables may be marshall...ed, and it is equally clear that this conciseness and significance are missing in Japanese sentences. The genius of the language is far lighter and more pla3rful than that of Turkish, but this makes it, not shorter and clearer, but JAPANESE LITERATURE 166 simply less logical and more pleonastic, diffuse, and sprawling.
This is not a grammatical treatise, and I will not pursue the subject further, except to invite any reader whom it may interest to examine some of the literal translations in Chamberlain's 'Handbook of Collo- quial Japanese.' He will find, I think, that the sentences are monstrously long, imperfectly co- ordinated in their various parts, and split up into little phrases in a way which interferes with their continuity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Most of these languages have an unhappy power of building up elaborate verbal forms, particularly gerunds, with the result that, though they may be excellent as a means for simple and direct conversation, they are apt to become intolerably complicated for literary purposes. It is with diffidence that I criticize a language of which I have only a smattering, like Japanese ; still, even a smattering of Chinese enables one to see with what force and point its pregnant monosyllables may be marshall...ed, and it is equally clear that this conciseness and significance are missing in Japanese sentences. The genius of the language is far lighter and more pla3rful than that of Turkish, but this makes it, not shorter and clearer, but JAPANESE LITERATURE 166 simply less logical and more pleonastic, diffuse, and sprawling.
This is not a grammatical treatise, and I will not pursue the subject further, except to invite any reader whom it may interest to examine some of the literal translations in Chamberlain's 'Handbook of Collo- quial Japanese.' He will find, I think, that the sentences are monstrously long, imperfectly co- ordinated in their various parts, and split up into little phrases in a way which interferes with their continuity.
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