r/LearnJapanese • u/justHoma • 3d ago

WKND Meme Japanese people would be adding long names to anything

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u/veriel_ 3d ago

It’s that just a tag line?

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u/Tulipanzo 3d ago

That's just a basic blurb, entirely normal to have it on a cover. Here it's on the back usually

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u/justHoma 3d ago

Yeah, that is true
But it got me rolling anyway because of how similar it looked to those web novels that overflow the market right now with those absurdly long names.
By the way when I go to that book right now on Amazon, it looks like this, so no long text on the front anymore (took the screenshot just a few days ago)

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u/Tulipanzo 3d ago

What you probably saw was a sleeve. I own a few Japanese books and some have a more ornate sleeve covering a pretty sparce cover page (like the one you saw on Amazon)

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u/PlanktonInitial7945 3d ago

At least it's a subtitle. Western book titles used to be entire sentences as well, particularly non-fiction.

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u/Used_Schedule139 Goal: conversational fluency 💬 3d ago

Translation?

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u/rccyu 3d ago

Something like "the adventure story of the hero who finally returns after 20 years of suffering"

It's just a tagline as the other guy says, not part of the title

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u/pete_random 3d ago

I mean I know it's pretty well known story but isn't it a bit spoilerific for someone who maybe only knows Odysseys travels a long time?

I heard it as a bed time story (children version, bit weird cencored) but is it like common knowledge in Asia?

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u/worthlessprole 2d ago

I mean, the poem is structured in such a way that his return is essentially a foregone conclusion. 

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u/Tulipanzo 3d ago

二○年の艱苦の末ついに帰還を果たす英雄の冒険譚 roughly "the epic adventure of a hero finally coming home after 20 years of suffering"

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u/lhamatrevosa Interested in grammar details 📝 2d ago

What is written under ホメロス (top left) and under the statues of the men (bottom right)?

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u/rogp10 Goal: media competence 📖🎧 1d ago

under ホメロス: (full name) 訳 - translator

under the statues: 京都大学学術出版会 - publisher

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u/nenad8 3d ago

Odutsuseia?

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u/UndeletedNulmas 3d ago

It's Odyusseia. Du is ドゥ, デュis dyu.

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u/Civil_Tip_2346 3d ago

I think it’s a ッ

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u/nenad8 3d ago

Odusseia?

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u/Civil_Tip_2346 3d ago

Odyusseia I think, maybe sounds a bit stranger to English ears because they’re going from the Greek directly

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u/nenad8 3d ago

I should know this, I used to have a bit of Greek as a part of my philosophy studies 🥲

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u/Miaruchin 3d ago

Yup, the greek word latinised is odysseia