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Old 2011-11-09, 10:08   Link #7044
LyricalAura
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Originally Posted by zorahk View Post
The fact that it was reduced in usage for modern Japanese is some consolation, but its still easy to get a Japanese sentence to seem like a paragraph if not a novel. The Tale of Genji makes Ryukishi's wordiness almost seem non-existent.
That's not really the same thing though. What we're talking about is Ryuukishi's tendency to explain things two or three times in different ways, even when the original explanation was adequate. It's more the redundancy than the word count.
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