I don't understand what the -化 suffix in the following sentence means for a word like カリスマ, or why fearing it can lead to early retirement. Can anyone shine some light?
52歳の若さではあったが、カリスマ化を恐れて早々に身を引き、...
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3"Charisma" has some connotations of influencing/leading lots of people, so it might mean "I was 52 years young, but I was still concerned about going on the road to charismatification (and the responsibilities it would entail) and promptly retired..." (If "charismatification" isn't a word it should be BTW :P)– user797Nov 5, 2011 at 10:47
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Let's examine 化 and some compound words it forms:
化(suffix) - action of making something
悪化する - worsen, deteriorate. Lit: to make worse
Corresponding noun (without する) : deterioration一体化する - unify, integrate. Lit: to make into one body
Corresponding nouns: unification, integration一般化する - generalise. Lit: to make general/ordinary
Corresponding nouns: generalisation, popularisation
Now for カリスマ化する, the literal meaning would roughly be "to make charismatic", and its corresponding noun would be as glacier puts it "charismatification". Not a real word but it's supposed to mean "the process of being made charismatic".
For the translation of the whole excerpt I think glacier has done a pretty good job in the question comment.
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Now this is the kind of flexibility that a hacker appreciates in a language! Nov 5, 2011 at 17:26