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[kittydesade]

I think we've mastered 'と' and 'や' so far. Onto the next one!

Making comparisons, using いちばん and ~の　ほうが ~より

Expressing superlatives, using いちばん

スポーツの中で何がいちばん好きですか。
Which sport do you like the best?
やきゅうがいちばん好きです。
I like baseball the best.


Asking about preferences

とうきょうときょうととどちらのほうが好きですか。
Which do you like better, Tokyo or Kyoto?
きょうとのほうが（とうきょうより）好きです。
I like Kyoto better (than Tokyo).


Expressing a lack of preference.

とうきょうもきょうとも好きです。
I like both Tokyo and Kyoto.
とうきょうもきょうとも好きじゃありません。
I don't like either Tokyo or Kyoto.

この　クラスで　だれが　いちばん　よく　勉強しますか。
山田さんが　いちばん　よく　勉強します。
山田さんです。

ペプシコーラとコカコーラと　どちらの　ほうｒが　おいしですか。
ペプシコーラもコカコーラも　おいしいです。　でも、　私は　ペプシコーラのほうが　好きです。

いちばん means number one or first. To form a superlative, いちばん　must be followed by an adjective or adverb. いちばん　先生　is a common mistake; the correct form is いちばん　いい　先生.

The phrase ～の　中で　means among or within. ～の　中で is omitted if the preceeding noun is a place noun.
食べ物の中で何がいちばん好きですか。
Which food do you like the best?
日本でどのまちがいちばん古いですか。
Which town is the oldest in Japan?

When a comparison is being made between two nouns, both of the items being compared always precede より。　～より can be omitted if obvious from the context.

If you want to say a little more and much more when making a comparison, respectively, use とこし　or ずっと。
エヴェレスト山の　ほうが　富士山より　ずっと　高いです。

とうきょうの　ほうが　ニューヨークより　すこし　大きいです。


Ｏｏｆ．I've discovered something I don't entirely like about this whole bento website books craze thing. A lot of it, maybe half of it, seems to be geared towards parents making kids' lunches. If I ever do have kids (and, heh, at this rate it seems like a big if, but you never know), sure, I'll probably pack them a bento box. But this is me, for an adult. I don't need to be taught how to integrate nutrition into my kid's life or about the food pyramid or things like that. I want some ideas for what fits well in a bento, and maybe some recipes, etc. That's it. I don't need "family discussion charts" or "recommended reading: Dr. Seuss." That said, the fact that The Lorax was in that book as recommended reading did crack me up.

That said, tomorrow's bento will be mango lamb curry, if the boy hasn't eaten it all, jasmine/basmati rice (whichever one we have at home, I forget which), and something else. Snacky things. Maybe orange slices, and I got nothing. I need to work on this whole getting into the bento! I also kind of want rice molds. Or funky fruit cutters. Something. I am a very silly person sometimes. Eh, I'm sure when I get home and poke around in the fridge I'll find something, we just went shopping.

I also got my Bag of Holding and my Pratchett books, and A Madness of Angels! Which is very exciting. Yay reading material! Boo not having organized my shelf space so I don't really have anywhere to put it. No, well, I do. I can double stack. But still. Boo also for not having my chip case yet, although by the tracking info it should probably be here tomorrow. It's in Durham. Don't know why, that's not the usual hub which, I think, is Winston-Salem, but, eh. As long as it's en route! And now I need to transfer most of the stuff from my purse to my Bag of Holding because holy SHIT, you guys, this really is a Bag of Holding. It's fucking huge. But on the other hand that also means I only have one bag to worry about when I go to work in the morning, and that's nice.

Oof. I feel kind of hot and kind of flushed and I don't know if that's from the marathon three hours in the dentist's chair (probably) or something happening last night to prevent me sleeping (maybe) as soundly as I might, or the fact that it's a Monday with a Monday workload (maybe a little). I can't wait to go home and be able to just lie down. Meh.