Talk:Mokusatsu

message: Here's a google search to back support the article. I first came across this in an NHK/CBC docudrama entitled "Hiroshima". The four-hour documentary mixed a dramatic presentation, period news footage, and recent interviews with Hiroshima bomb survivors.
NHK did not broadcast the production as originally schedule, because of the taboo surrounding the imperial family and of the controversy surrounding the Showa emperor (Hirohito) who figures prominently in the film. Mom sent me a tape of it five years ago or so, and I finallty saw it on NHK in August 2003, but broadcast at 2:00 AM. Vincent 04:15, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 07:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: The article claims that the Potsdam declaration was "transmitted to the Japanese government diplomatically via Swiss intermediaries". However, the Wikipedia article on the Potsdam Declaration states that "The Declaration was never transmitted to the Japanese government through diplomatic channels." This is an obvious contradiction here; it would be great if someone could look into this and sort it out. --86.101.112.68 (talk) 17:13, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potsdam Declaration "being transmitted to the Japanese government diplomatically via Swiss intermediaries" - is it true? 

message: Is the lead section correct? :wikt:もくさつ translates "もくさつ" (=mokusatsu) as "ignoring", not "ignore", which is "もくさつする" according to Wiktionary. This document adds "suru" too. Apokrif (talk) 17:45, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You're reading the hiragana entry of the Wiktionary, the correct entry is here: :wikt:黙殺. The word is a noun, but can also be a verb with suru. --Thibaut120094 (talk) 14:40, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: My point is: is the word - as the article currently states - a verb without "suru"? Apokrif (talk) 18:50, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead statement is totally unequivocal, well-sourced, obvious, and, while giving a ref to Butow's definitive account copied by all, I've also removed the tags which are dated. Nishidani (talk) 19:27, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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message: The English translation provided for Suzuki's words does not match the Japanese text provided for Suzuki's words. The Japanese appears to cover only the middle bit, and even for that, the English translation is not ideal.  Do we have full text of the Japanese statement that corresponds to the English one?  Bueller 007 (talk) 01:09, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That is fixed simply by bracketing.Nishidani (talk) 14:53, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious translation 

message: *(1)  i love that your reading skills are basically zero. he says "most", you say "consensus". please do take a basic literacy class
:(a) 'i' is never in the lower case, except when illiterates write.
:(b) I wrote orginally ‘The consensus of modern historians is that the Allies had understood the word correctly.’ You rewrote_'this view is not universally held.' Chalmers  wrote ‘most informed commentators believe’, which cannot be transformed into ‘not universally held’ (implying though almost universally held, some dissent’) the opposite of the intended meaning. 
:Secondly it is illiterate to assert that consensus is not the adequate term for  ‘most informed commentators’. The word consensus means  generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people.
:I.e. precisely what Chalmers’ words mean. ‘Most’ is a strong  ‘consensus’. This is obvious and you can't see it.
*(2)  dude. your English is deplorable. "advanced through the mediation the Soviet Union"????? please stop
:Since you were reverting so rapidly, I missed writing 'of'  ('advanced through the mediation (of) the Soviet Union), an easy correction. That slip is deplorable, if understandable in the circumstances. But what adjective would you adopt to describe your  introducing the solecistic  ‘intermediated’ to describe the Soviet Union acting as a mediator?
:Intermediation involves the "matching" of lenders with savings to borrowers who need money by an agent or third party, such as a bank.
:To mediate means to act as a 'go-between'. The force of the Latinate 'inter' is 'between' as in inter nos. So  that remarkable creature, a pleonastic neologism ('to go between between'), to put it politely, is a moronically tactless screwup which, had he sighted it, James Joyce would have called sprachgefoolery
A general comment. I wrote with great specificity, citing page numbers where available. You have erased the precise page (and footnotes) I introduced to buttress my citation of these texts, leaving the reader without a clue. Despite some minor improvements, your rapid editing here has been erratic, and I suspect the only way to fix it is to go back to an earlier version, and edit it slowly, using the talk page. Nishidani (talk) 16:06, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  On 'illiteracy'