I don't know how you ended up here, but I haven't updated this blog in years.
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2005/11/16
Evaluate your Japanese...
１．日本語はとても上手ですね。- Your Japanese sucks... really bad. I would tell you to stick with English but I don't need to because you don't speak any Japanese.
２．日本語は上手です。 - Your Japanese sucks but at least you've made an attempt at learning it instead of ignorantly blurting out "konnichiwa" like Michael Douglas.
３．日本語はうまいですね。- There are lots of things you don't understand but you can hold a regular conversation and get by.
４．日本語はうまい！ - You've exceeded the level that foreigners are normally not expected to achieve. Though your pronunciation is not perfect, you know Japanese well enough to take Japanese people by surprise. Oh my god, you mean foreigners can actually master this language???
５．日本語は普通です。 - Congratulations! You've finally reached the level where the double standard no longer applies. You are near-native level and it may take a while for Japanese people to realize that Japanese is not your native language. With all your hard work you have managed to go from "very good" to just "normal".
２．日本語は上手です。 - Your Japanese sucks but at least you've made an attempt at learning it instead of ignorantly blurting out "konnichiwa" like Michael Douglas.
３．日本語はうまいですね。- There are lots of things you don't understand but you can hold a regular conversation and get by.
４．日本語はうまい！ - You've exceeded the level that foreigners are normally not expected to achieve. Though your pronunciation is not perfect, you know Japanese well enough to take Japanese people by surprise. Oh my god, you mean foreigners can actually master this language???
５．日本語は普通です。 - Congratulations! You've finally reached the level where the double standard no longer applies. You are near-native level and it may take a while for Japanese people to realize that Japanese is not your native language. With all your hard work you have managed to go from "very good" to just "normal".
2005/11/09
The thing that piss me off the most...
...is spending hours for a bug fix when the fix itself only took 2 minutes and involves changing one character in the code. Arrrggghhh! Why in the world did I set "0" and not "1"?
Another thing that pisses me off is the アトピー that's taking over my body and changing my skin into lizard-skin like that villian from Spiderman. Why are only Asians burdened with this curse??
Another thing that pisses me off is the アトピー that's taking over my body and changing my skin into lizard-skin like that villian from Spiderman. Why are only Asians burdened with this curse??
2005/11/05
Hmm... maybe I should study English more...
Everytime I think I learned another useless word for the GRE, I see another GRE vocab actually being used by actual people. For instance, while reading this, I saw the word "perspicacious". "Hey," I thought, "I just learned that yesterday!" (Well, actually I had learned and then forgotten it yesterday) What is up with that? How did I breeze through all these words without realizing that I didn't know what they meant? I noticed that with Japanese too. Well, actually not anymore since I haven't learned a new word in who knows how long. Oh yeah, I learned 「カンジタ症」 and if that word pops up in a coversation, I'm no longer in that conversation.
My GRE Poem
Profligate, pellucid, perdition, oh my!
Probity, prosody, peregrinations, I see.
Penury, putative, panegyric, proselyte, provident, oh dear,
I think my hypothalamus just exploded.
My GRE Poem
Profligate, pellucid, perdition, oh my!
Probity, prosody, peregrinations, I see.
Penury, putative, panegyric, proselyte, provident, oh dear,
I think my hypothalamus just exploded.
Covering the shorter causative...
Lately, I've been wavering back and forth between whether I should cover the shorter causative form, namely: 聞かす、待たす、言わす、食べさす、etc..
I've been seeing it used here and there watching tv and reading comic books so I figured I should add it but how useful is it really? It's not nearly used as often as the more conventional せる／させる form. When is it ok to use? Why would you want to use it? And why don't textbooks cover it (at least the ones I've seen)?
The biggest thing I want to avoid is to create the impression that you can use the shorter form for causative anytime instead of the regular form. The せる／させる is so much more predominate, I think I should figure out exactly how the shorter form comes into play before I cover it.
何回も言わすなよ。 - Hmm... sounds ok.
タバコをやめさした。 - Uhh... ok???
Let's google for "japanese causative form", see what I can find out. Oh goody, I get my own page. That's a big help.
I've been seeing it used here and there watching tv and reading comic books so I figured I should add it but how useful is it really? It's not nearly used as often as the more conventional せる／させる form. When is it ok to use? Why would you want to use it? And why don't textbooks cover it (at least the ones I've seen)?
The biggest thing I want to avoid is to create the impression that you can use the shorter form for causative anytime instead of the regular form. The せる／させる is so much more predominate, I think I should figure out exactly how the shorter form comes into play before I cover it.
何回も言わすなよ。 - Hmm... sounds ok.
タバコをやめさした。 - Uhh... ok???
Let's google for "japanese causative form", see what I can find out. Oh goody, I get my own page. That's a big help.
2005/11/01
the precise moment of coming so much...
I just submitted this to Engrish.com. It's from a catalogue of pair rings/necklaces and it reads, "THE KISS is a phenomenon that happens to lovers at the precious moment of coming so much." Amazingly, the grammar is completely correct.
Ahh... I love that precise moment.
2005/10/28
2005/10/26
Where's my money??
Holy Shit! My blog is worth $1,129.08!! Where's my money??
Update: Holy shit! My blog just went up over a $1,000! Where do they come up with these numbers anyway? And WHERE IS MY MONEY? You can have this blog, it's crap anyway.
Update: Holy shit! My blog just went up over a $1,000! Where do they come up with these numbers anyway? And WHERE IS MY MONEY? You can have this blog, it's crap anyway.
2005/10/25
GRE=やばいやばいやばい
そろそろ12月が近づいているので、しょうがなく、GREの予約をネットでやっちゃいました。受験日は11月の半ば。
「やばい」という言葉を英語で説明したことありますが、改めて日本語でも説明させていただきたいと思います。日本語を日本語で勉強するのもありだと思うので、どうぞご参考までに。
やばい：（形）GREを受けるのに全然勉強していない状況。特に英語単語の記憶がバラバラで数学がまともにできない場合。
私は、まさにやばい状態であります。
Random: Why does the GRE cost $140 to take? I can buy a gameboy with that. Does writing up the GRE take as much engineering and research as making a gameboy? Huh? DOES IT?
「やばい」という言葉を英語で説明したことありますが、改めて日本語でも説明させていただきたいと思います。日本語を日本語で勉強するのもありだと思うので、どうぞご参考までに。
やばい：（形）GREを受けるのに全然勉強していない状況。特に英語単語の記憶がバラバラで数学がまともにできない場合。
私は、まさにやばい状態であります。
Random: Why does the GRE cost $140 to take? I can buy a gameboy with that. Does writing up the GRE take as much engineering and research as making a gameboy? Huh? DOES IT?
2005/10/18
Hard Gay, 100x better than Bobby
Hard Gay has been cropping up all over TV lately. Here's a funny clip you can check out for yourself. You'll need a bit torrent client to download.
Enjoy.
Anyway, yeah, he's funny. Give me HG over Bobby and Bob Sap anyday. Someday, I hope America will have a Japanese comedian where his act will consist of his horrible, horrible English. God knows, there's plenty of candidates on the NHK English learning programs.
That's why I feel good everytime I manage to gyp NHK out of their extortion money. Next time they come around, I'm just going to shout, "I'm not here, go the hell away!" Damn them and their POS channel.
[Update]
From the forum: 600megs of HG!
Enjoy.
Anyway, yeah, he's funny. Give me HG over Bobby and Bob Sap anyday. Someday, I hope America will have a Japanese comedian where his act will consist of his horrible, horrible English. God knows, there's plenty of candidates on the NHK English learning programs.
That's why I feel good everytime I manage to gyp NHK out of their extortion money. Next time they come around, I'm just going to shout, "I'm not here, go the hell away!" Damn them and their POS channel.
[Update]
From the forum: 600megs of HG!
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