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Re: basic vocab

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Sunday, September 17, 2000, 22:48
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? > > 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