Only one thing harder than writing in Japanese: writing a
letter in Japanese!
What with the weird structures, required formal expressions and the three thousand rules to follow lest a major cultural
faux-pas be made…
I mean, for all I know, I probably misspelled half the kanjis resulting in my letter addressing yutaka’s parents as “most honorable silaginoids” or something like that… So how could I be worrying about the overall level of politeness of my writing.
Talking about that, a Google query for “
mispelled” returns an alarming number of matches… and don’t get me started on “
inteligent” in personal ads…
Only one thing harder than writing in Japanese: writing a letter in Japanese!
What with the weird structures, required formal expressions and the three thousand rules to follow lest a major cultural faux-pas be made…
I mean, for all I know, I probably misspelled half the kanjis resulting in my letter addressing yutaka’s parents as “most honorable silaginoids” or something like that… So how could I be worrying about the overall level of politeness of my writing.
Talking about that, a Google query for “mispelled” returns an alarming number of matches… and don’t get me started on “inteligent” in personal ads…
2004-01-24 at 6.43 pm
It is enormous. You remember somewhere and increase are high. Nice！
Are you the human of the country of somewhere?
2004-01-30 at 7.19 pm
Upon further inquiry, what Atsushi meant to say with the limited help of some automated translation engine is:
“it looks like a native’s handwriting…”
which is awfully nice and flattering, but utterly undeserved (believe me, even 3 year-old Japanese write infinitely better than I do).