Happy New Year! Akemashite omedetoo. Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Shinnen no chikai tateta? shinnen 新年 New Year chikai o tateru 誓いをたてる make an oath goal, mark, objective, target (per J Breen) 目 moku 標hyoo目標 – もくひょう I am going to (stop smoking) this year! Kotoshi koso wa (kin’en) suru zo! kotoshi 今年 [...]
Language Notes
“tabla rasa” for discussion of language anomalies
Week 47 – “Like a stick” with blue veins & boots on
Week 47 Line# Expression / Word Details More 2 DATING: 3 KADUKE, HIDUKE 4 lets go dutch treat, shall we wari kan DE ikimashoo 5 let’s go Dutch atamawari de haraimashoo NI NO ASHI O FUMU =to hesitate [lit.to step on the same spot with the second foot] 6 she’s hesitating about getting married kanojo [...]
Week 44 Kaigi
Notes from Scripps Library meeting 11/9/11 HOW TO ASK FOR ADVICE/HELP can I ask some advice (from you) chotto tanomu koto can I get some advice from you? nanka adobaisu o shite kureru ka? / kuremasu ka? can I get some advice from you? chotto(or “sukoshi”) jogen(=”advice”) o onegai dekimasu ka? (sukoshi jogen o moraemasu [...]
Week 43 – Gengo – Mud – Kara
NOTES FROM 11/2/11 KAIGI: GENGO = language GENGO NOORYOKU = linguistic competence NOTE: I love these next two phrases: They mean not only the geographical semantics/meaning of English/Japanese, but the historical (rekishi no) differences of interpretation.i.e.: Konna yoo na kaigi de, irona na omoshiroi bunshoo no gengo chiri gaku o yoku awase kangaete imasu. GENGO [...]
Mark Twain
The common Welsh name Bzjxxlwcp is pronounced Jackson. …. More on Mark Twain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress. [...]
English: Affected by Effect
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:24 AM, admin@qaweb.org wrote: Hi Sensei, We misuse AFFECTED and EFFECTED around here so much, that I’m “confusulated.” Isn’t AFFECTED a verb and proper below. But EFFECTED invalid? What is the [A][E]ffect of a bowling ball dropped on an egg. [EDR0012] Upon detection of voltage the .. software shall [...]
2011 Shi Nen Akemashite Omedetou … “Wishes/Inoru” Question
Today I learned the second half of “Shinen akemashite omedeto gozaimasu…” (Happy New Year) I said this to my best friend and heard in return something I missed. Then the greeting was repeated to me “Shinen akemashite omedeto gozaimasu…”, and we waited …expecting a response from me. I said nothing. She asked with concerned surprised, [...]
Butterfly Project
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The Toma Family of Miyagi-ken Japan