preface

On-Yomi: ジョ — Kun-Yomi: つい.で、ついで

Koohii stories:

1) [FudoMyo] 13-3-2007(308): The preface to all human history was written beforehand in caves.

2) [rtkrtk] 29-1-2008(45): Rename the "beforehand" part to be glove (because you have to wear gloves beforehand if you want to wield the halberd, which is why this primitive is an incomplete halberd). The story: a winter morning. A textbook author is holed up in his tiny office, a veritable cave. He wants to start his masterpiece textbook by first writing the preface. But he can't get started. He sits and stares at empty paper until evening. It gets cold and he puts on gloves, shivering, but still unable to start his preface.

3) [harusame] 10-6-2009(41): In the preface to his latest edition of RTK, Heisig tells us that until he invented his brilliant kanji-learning method, he was living in a cave beforehand. Luckily, the publishing of the book gave him enough money to move out of the cave into an apartment. He could also finally afford to put a handle on his halberd.

4) [lankydan] 30-11-2007(9): Read preface on the cave beforehand or you'll be sorry…

5) [Viking101] 24-1-2010(7): I suck at tennis so I picked up a book by Roger Federer. The preface tells how he was so awesome that he managed to defeat a cave wall in a one-on-one tennis match. The cave wall eventually gave up and collapsed. The rest of the book was about boring tennis strategies.