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Judo and Japanese

August 15th, 2004 | Filed under Life of a Starving Genius, 日本語

昨日は日本が柔道で二つ金牌を勝った。
日本に来た時、日本語を全然喋れなかったと思った。でも子供時、ヨロッパで日本語を勉強したの！
フランスで柔道をしながらいっぱい日本語の言葉使った：”初め”や　”それまで”、”待って”、”技あり”、”一本”。これは全部柔道の競技で使う。

2 Responses to “Judo and Japanese”

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Grod Says:
August 18th, 2004 at 05:44 am

See, as a kid, little dr Dave could not be bothered much with sports… particularly the kind that required you to build some form of “team spirit” and where smashing your opponent’s head in the concrete was not considered the principal objective… if said sport involved the use of a ball, then I downright hated it. Don’t ask me why, I just couldn’t stand soccer, basketball, handball, to say nothing of hell-spawn cricket.

substitute baseball for cricket and that could described me.

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dr Dave Says:
August 18th, 2004 at 04:40 pm

Rest assured that, had I grown up in the US, baseball would have easily replaced cricket for me too. Actually, it eventually did when I moved there. As for NFL, well, it managed to make me regret soccer (or football, as the rest of the world likes to call it).

I am convinced there is a very direct link between unusually bright and intelligent kids and an instinctive hatred and contempt for anything that requires pushing/throwing/catching/running after some kind of ball, especially when done along with a dozen other people…

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