Re: basic vocab
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 17, 2000, 22:48 |
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Nik wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > Surely he learned something and didn't realize it? Or did
> > he really not pay attention?
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> How can you not pick up on the significance of dozens of words for "I"
> and "you"? Or the various honorifics and the like?
That's what boggled me. I would think that the cultural significance of
things would be Really Easy to see in Japanese for an
English-speaker...and heck, even I could see the tu-vs.-vous thing in
French, which is a lot closer to English. <puzzled look>
YHL