“Kotoba zamurai” articles are written to be “a non-systematic approach to
learning unusual, but useful words.” While these not-so-serious articles
are written with the upper-beginner to intermediate in mind, even beginners
should be able to get something out of them. If not, I may have wasted fifteen minutes
of your life… It is a hard choice, but I will leave it up to you to take the chance.
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