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BTW -- looks like there is a book that covers exactly that!
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Word-Pow ... F8&s=books

Looks nice, I'll try to get it from a library...

Thanks.
And you are right that for a beginner like me it is better to speak with adjectives and avoid expressions I don't feel confident about in general, but I still wanted to understand how these...

Thanks a lot for the explanations, MOGさん.



So a Japanese person who has never ever heard the word 本葬 before would still be able to understand and recognize it in speech, correct?



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Thinking about the recent example with 失楽園, one thing I have always wondered about in Japanese language was the usage of different kanji prefixes. Apparently 失 is not one of them :) but there are...