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Can someone or the author please clarify? | Can someone or the author please clarify? | ||
=== MY ADDITION === | |||
A good way to check if it is part of another word or not, is to use a decent Japanese-English translator such as [http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Babel Fish] to do a translation to English. Japanese words meant to be together will often produce a single English word while the Japanese words meant to be separate will often produce separate English words. | A good way to check if it is part of another word or not, is to use a decent Japanese-English translator such as [http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Babel Fish] to do a translation to English. Japanese words meant to be together will often produce a single English word while the Japanese words meant to be separate will often produce separate English words. | ||
Using the above as an example, the translation of 隊 gives Party/Team and 軍隊 gives Troop. | Using the above as an example, the translation of 隊 gives Party/Team and 軍隊 gives Troop. | ||