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Here is the place to have a blast!!!!
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I'm so sorry everyone. I wasn't myself. I shouldn't have tried to build a thread even when the previous one was used up. I think I was controled by someone else. My fingers moved on their own accord, no matter what my real intention. How can I make it up to you? I know! I'll do better next time! So please forgive me.
Let's get the right template for the next thread, okay? Try it from this one.
Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part # ∧_∧ ( ´・ω・) Let's have (Something) tea and chat! ( つ旦O ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ と_)_) 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦
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Hey!!! you NEETs, nerds, YouTube-link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers, Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters, Big-boobs fans, Weeaboos from all over the world, learners of Japanese who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, and cunning linguists. And let's celebrate the comeback of the Internet-addicted housewife.
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Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part # ∧_∧ ( ´・ω・) Let's have (Something) tea and chat! ( つ旦O ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ と_)_) 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦 旦
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Hey!!! you NEETs, nerds, YouTube-link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers, Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters, Big-boobs fans, Weeaboos from all over the world, learners of Japanese who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, and cunning linguists. And let's celebrate the comeback of the Internet-addicted housewife.
Here is the place to have a ball!!!!!
★the infamous spammer that uses Windows ME is not allowed to participate★ ★Chat no more about Windows ME please★
I think the reason why sparky is attacked by an anon is not the fact that sparky was kind of a spammer, but an anon is frustrated because Christmas Day is coming soon.
asian boys are really attractive, especially japanese guys are beautiful. everytime i run into japanese guys, i could even barely breath because my heart are speading up. on the other hand, white guys like american boys are very dull. compare to japanese boys, american boys are like donkkey which shitting around all day long. i cant take living without japanese boys. my love to them are very real. japanese boys are hottest in the planet and nobody cant deny this truth.
>>45 You might not want to expect much from the spammer. He created his own thread. So I think it's a good idea for his admirers to go there talking with him about Windows ME, but not here please.
>>25 I don't remember the author, it wasn't my friend. I guess it directly translates into "wait a minute tiger" which is the same thing as saying "easy tiger".
>>54 Retype my posting guidelines in a new post. You said you saved them, right? So read it over, and type it back here. Don't copy-paste. Type it over yourself.
>>56 Maybe it will be here for me to review when I come back from eating dinner right now. We'll see. You've ignored me the last couple times I asked you to do this. I think it will help though.
>>55 Isn't that supposed to be "Wait a minute, Tiger!" or something. I guess Tiger is a name of a person and easy Tiger means he is easy. Am I correct?
* keira=robotintokyo (California) A woman who once announced that she'd start vlogging, but she's so lazy that she hasn't even tried it. Loves to travel with her family. Last time she visited Japan, she cosplayed and strutted on the Takeshita street in Harajuku. She loves to sing Harajuku Girls by Gwen Stefani when she goes to Karaoke with her friends. "robotintokyo" is a part of her blog's URL.
* ベイエリア人 (California) A man who claims he leads a reclusive lifestyle. Nice man who answeres our questions in another thread. His dream is to bungee jump from the Golden Gate bridge. He's now on a self-searching trip.
* tennessian (Tennessee) Born in a stable but his dad's success in business led him to live in a mansion. A man who loves Japanese culture and wants to go out with Japanese exchange students in his university. Although he doesn't give a shit studying Japanese, he wants to have a good time as a gaijin in Japan. So checking ALT's (assistant language teacher) blogs to know what their lives are like is his daily routine. He loves the weather and people in Florida so much that he wants to move there and spend the rest of his life playing poker all day with elderly people. The winner of the 28th Elvis impersonator contest. His favorite CD is House remix of Elvis's tunes. Devoted Dixie Chicks fan.
* アメリカ人 (Chicago) Man with panty fetish. His goal is to get full schalorship from one of the IV League universities or USC, scientology or scatology major. Learning Japanese but not so serious about it. When he gets nervous before an exam, he sniffs his host sister's panty to relax. It's said that lots of bras and panties were gone when he left his host family's house. He knows how to choose the best and ideal host family to stay with. His advice to students who wants to homestay in Japan is that the first thing they have to do on arriving host family's home is to make sure where the washing machine is. He is an active spammer on Japanprobe and Japundit. Cheerful and outgoing.
* crystal (California) ESL teacher wannabe. Kind enough to answer our English questions. Loves Japanese pop culture. A tad more serious than アメリカ人 but not so serious about studying Japanese. She loves Japan and things Japanese but draws a fine line between weeaboos and herself. Thinks it's a good idea to live in Japan but not longer than one year. She believes that being away from her boyfriend for such a long time deteriorates their relationship. Loves to play catch with her mom. She loves spicy hot Orochon ramen noodles. She likes it in spicy level 9. (extremely hot)
* jook (california) Tech-savvy. Nobody knows more about the US cell phone industry than him. He's so tech-savvy that he can text message or give a call even when his cell phone is turned off. Nice enough to answer our English questions here and in another thread. Loves to sleep with his girlfriend behind his parents' eyes. Desperate to shave his girlfriend's pubic hair. He drinks Jooky instead of Coke. 将 is one of his favorite kanji and he uses stylized 将 as wallpaper. Next kanji candidate to be used as a wallpaper is 剃. He loves Oreskaband just because all the members are girls. Party animal. He calls himself 男伊達.(dandy guy)
*【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】ミ田 (Louisiana) A boy also known as Sparky who lives only in cyber space. Sometimes you have a feel that it's easier to communicate with cats and dogs than him. Some says he's a gifted troll but he insists he's gifted in science and math. Administrator of deserted image boards. He's in serious love sickness. At Bar Gikoppoi, he met his cyber girlfriend but she turned out to be a middle aged pervert under the cloak of a cute Japanese girl. It's said that his Windows Me PC calculates 4 times faster than IBM's Deep Blue.
* 米人(Boston) Red Sox fan. Lived for a year in a rehabilitation facility to cure her Internet addiction. Now she has developed game addiction and every time she spots her kids playing Guirtar Hero, she snatches the console from them and plays it on her own. She takes care of lots of plants in the living room, such as miniture coffee tree, peppercorn and marijuana. She loves chatting here more than taking care of her family. She's nice enough to give some good advice to learners of Japanese. Besides, she is greatly admired as virtual mom by posters here. Her quality time is when she reads Boston Globe over coffee on a beautiful Sunday morning, with her husband and kids locked in the closet.
* Ether (Florida) Has travelled to Japan. Taller than 6 feet and blond. Drives a jaloppy. There's a framed photo of two sumo wrestlers he saw during his vist to Japan on the wall of his room. His penis was bitten off by a gigantic aligator while he was taking a nap naked in the backyard. His mom is on the FBI's missing people's list. On the day he saw her last, he saw a huge alligator with its stomach swollen disappearing into a swamp.
* Captain Spicard (Florida) Born in upstate NY. Guardian of Sparky. He came all the way from 4chan to take him back to his original playground. The author of "Training and Taming Sparky for Dummies." Doesn't give a shit studying Japanese but doesn't mind helping Japanese English learners. He's a pro websurfer with 13 web browsers installed. There's a wig in the living room of his house in NY which he used to wear for a costume party on Halloween. Atheist. He loves snow more than anything and his dream as a child was to become a snowman. Child at heart.
* linger (Massachusetts) Born and raised in Massachusetts. Nice enough to answer questions about English. He claims he has a 3.76 college GPA. He doesn't give a damn about learning Japanese. Spanish is the only language he's interested in learning. His goal in life is becoming an illegal immigrant in Mexico or Spain.
* firestar(Pennsylvania) Devoted fan of Mac laptop PC with multi-touch trackpad. His major is computer information sciences. He has installed 2ch browser, meaning ready to get addicted to 2ch. Loves netsurfing with a subway sandwitch in his mouth. His hero is Rocky Balboa.
* Randugulf Quite a long time resident here but not many about him are known to everybody. Rumor has it that he's just pervert.
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* イギリス人(UK) Foreigners come and go but he is the longest term resident here. Diplomat's spoiled sun. He has lived in several countries as a child and now he has no clues where he's from. He's nice and sincere enough to answer even stupid English questions. He's been lurking since he got a job in web design. (He's busy.) He was working on making a new breed of PC virus to spread around the world on on Christmas but he ended up getting infected with flu virus. He knows quite a lot about Japanese TV shows and movies. He is a great cook. He loves to bake a chocolate cake. He loves to collect hats and buys some on online auction but it's said that he doesn't pay for them one out of three times. Every wall in his room is covered with posters of 広末涼子. (Ryoko Hirosue) Secret admirer of NORIAKI the REAL and Cool Tak.
* スウェーデン人(Sweden) He used to frequent this thread but now he doesn't seem to be able to access to 2ch. 2ch has been denying accesses from Sweden or of people with se. IP address. His English proficiency is almost perfect and was nice enough to answer questions of us English learners. He's thinking about studying in university in Japan.
* Nrvnqsr (Sweden) Not many are known about him except his pubic hair is blond. Good English speaker.
she said yesterday that she will be back online in 3 days
i asked her to write <something> on a piece of paper and take a picture of herself holding it but she said it was too late and she did not have time to do it because she had to go to bed early for they things tommarrow
>>80 What do you want? lol If you aren't serious, the answer is Yes. If you are, then I must say, "wait a sec, I can't answer such a question until I somehow get to know you better."
>>60 Good, thank you for writing it. Please keep them in mind.
>>lots of numbers You mostly seem to be interpreting that phrase wrong. Maybe because it was written wrong to begin with. It should say "Easy, tiger" with a comma. Tiger is a nickname. it means "take it easy." Often used to mean "restrain yourself" sort of.
>>87 Upon re-reading this, I see that the phrasing on the last line could be interpreted to mean that "tiger" as a nickname means take it easy. That's not the case. The phrase means that.
I love engineers! My dad, my grandfather, my husband, my brother, my brother's girlfriend and my father-in-law are all engineers. Am I lucky or what? So if >>80 is an engineer, I probably would love him too.
Here is a joke for all of the wonderful engineers: Three men are sentenced to death for various crimes against a mythical and oppressive state. One is a priest, another is a gambler and the third is an engineer. The first to face the executioner is the priest. When asked if he had any last requests, he said, "I wish to die facing my God." So he lay on his back and faced the razor-sharp blade. When it was released, the blade fell half way and stopped. The executioner exclaimed, "This must be divine intervention. You are pardoned, and you may leave."
The next was the gambler. He figured that the odds were in his favor, so when he was asked the same question, he chose to lie face up like the priest. So he lay on his back too, facing the sharp blade as the sun glinted off its keen edge. Again, the blade fell only half way and stopped. The executioner exclaimed, "The Lord is generous today. You are pardoned, and you may also leave."
Finally, it was time for the engineer. He also chose to lie on his back. After all, it seemed that was the lucky thing to do that day. He lay on his back looking up at the heavy blade tensing against the rope. Just before the blade was let loose, he shouted, "Wait! I think I see the problem!"
I've been playing Tear Crisis, and it's really fun. Probably a masterpiece that's ever sold for Nintendo DS. I love it very much. But I'm planing on playing Tales of Hearts soon.
You are talented person. Maybe, school English education does't affect one's English ability. You may prove it by yourself!
The reason I visited Sanda was just to refresh my mind. I got off the sin-sanda station and roamed around sanda for a short time. (I'm sure that I'm a bit strangelol)
Sanda is good countryside. You must be one of the wealty people in Japan! I have a question. When the marathon festival is held?
ok, if you want to practice English writing, come here. This thread helps with your English learning. You can come here anytime you want though some offensive people are here. See you next time.
>>81 Percentage that Sweidish people' hair is blond is high so I just assumed that his pubic hair is blond, too. Actually, I heard less Sweddish have blond hair as we think.
Funny thing is that when I was a junior high school student, I thought pubic hair of blond people are dark brown like us Japanese. It's impossible that hair color is defferent between head's hair and pubic hair but at that time I can't imagine, even pubic hair is blond. There's no internet available back then, so I didn't have no ways to look at blond people's color of pubic hair on the internet and confirm.
>>117 That would be the cake. "sponge cake" is one type. I live with my parents. Dad cooks - and he's really good at it. Usually dinner is somewhere around 6pm.
>>118 I answered you before. It's actually the other way around. "Chat" is the basic verb. Chatter can have several meanings. It can be "one who chats" (I'm frequently a chatter over at 2ch) or "talking" (cut the chatter!) or used in place of "rattle" sometimes (his teeth were chattering) kind of.
>>130 Ahh I see. I understand what you mean. Thanks. Let me confirm.
frosting=icing are both nouns and they mean the material you cover a cake with for final touch or the act of covering a cake with things such as chocolate cream?
Today is Cristmas Eve and maybe all lovehotels have no vacancy tonight. Christams Eve in Japan is for people in relatinship.
I heard some 2channelers perform a demonstration on the street somwhere in Tokyo, protesting against people who enjoy the day flirting with boyfriends and girlfriends. The idea of doing demonstration is really stupid and participating in the demonstration is a sure sign of they are romantically-challenged. I wouldn't participate such a demonstration.
>>140 I know he wants to see a screenshot of PC/Mac desktop but I wonder why? To see wallpaper or to see what kind of Windows you use or what kind of software you use?
What kind of Windows do you use? It doesn't look like XP, Vista or other kinds of Windows. You have Second life installed. Do you enjoy it? I guess it takes lots of grafic memory performance.
>>142 I use windows XP with a custom theme from a program called WindowBlinds. Second life is pretty good, sometimes. I don't hang around there as much as I sued to though. It's true that having good specs helps. You can really see a big difference playing it on a really nice computer, or just a so-so one.
>>143 I use a software for your windows to look different. That explains why it looks different... I thought I'd try secondlife before but I haven't tired it yet. I heard you can earn money by trasnlating conversations there and I thought that's a good idea to be able to practice English and earning money. Have you talked with Japanese people there or visited virtual Japanese town there?
>>144 I see. I use a default one, too. I'm not good at tweaking my PC.
>>145 To be honset, I don't like it much. I'm not into any anime characters and yellow color isn't my cup of tea. And I think you should answer >>139 on your own instead of having someone asnwering it...
>>147 It's just that they aren't fluent in English enough to express their opinions. It's lot easier to say, just yes or it's good and things like postitive comments.
>>154 That's good. My PC can handle Google earth well enough and I don't get irritated using it. No slow reponses. So maybe my PC's spec is good enough to handle Second life, too.
>>135 Wait, what are they protesting exactly? I could understand it if they were protesting the gross commercialization of Christmas, but just protesting flirtation between couples? Makes no sense to me.
>>160 Aww, what a nuisance. I hate when my computer does things like that without asking me. Icons show up places, installing a program makes shortcuts without asking me... I wouldn't even know how to take care of something like that though.
>>164 I didn't know who that was so I checked wikipedia, and it says that her death was announced on the 5pm news. That means the page has been updated by someone who saw that broadcast within the last 15 minutes. Wow! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Iijima
>>165 That's surprising to think that it's English version's wikipedia.
I think the topic about her death will be talked and talked and talked... from now on the Internet. Maybe It's equivalant of one of the famous Playmates tunred TV personality committed suicide. It's not decided 100% if she commited suicide or died because of desease though.
I can imagine 2chan's threads in breaking news bullten board are consumed at a light speed by posters speculating her cause if death.
>>78 Your prophecies came true... I really do have flu or something now. Just in time for Christmas. This makes me think back to when I was 16 and got braces put on my teeth. It was three days before Christmas, and extremely painful. I couldn't eat solid food. So while everyone ate turkey with roast potatoes, stuffing, cocktail sausages, Yorkshire puddings, gravy and vegetables, mine was blended together in a food processor and I had to drink it.
I was very astonished to know the death of Iijima Ai... I knew the news in this thread for the first time. What hit on my mind was that she committed a suicide, but in fact she didn't seem kill herself, according to my mother. She was suffering from the disease though I don't know exactly it is. Anyway, this breaking news gives people kind of suprise and sorrow.
It's Christmas Eve in Japan. I walked around town today and saw a lot of couples being happy. As this country has few Christians, it seems to me that most Japanese, especially young people, are just using Christmas as an excuse to hang around, and hopefully have sex, with their loved ones. But Christmas is a holy day of Christianity by definition. Personally I'm a Buddist. So this seems particulary weird to me.
What to you think of Japanese people's insensitivity to religion? Am I just caring too much about it?
>>157 To understand your love letter, I had to read quite a lot times and look words up in a dictionally because vocabularies used in that sentenses are difficult for non-natives.lol but maybe, I'm misunderstanding the content even now duw to the difficulty, though I understand at least you're kidding!
That letter is, I think, more difficult to read than English writings in the entrance exam given by Tokyo university, which is the best one in Japan.lol
>>172 I'm really astonished too. I didn't even know she's already gotten out of the world of showbiz. By the way, a little while ago I heard on the news that the cause of death isn't determined yet.
>>171 You don't mean you are sick in bed and not in the mood for eating solid food now, do you? Don't you have any appetite?
Stuff which consists of those foods blended in a food processor sure doesn't sound delicious. I can't imagine how it hurts to have your teeth braced but I guess probably it hurts for a couple of days.
Have a good rest and keep yourself warm. Even if you don't have much appetite, try to have something. Just a little bit is OK. You have to eat something to take medicine anyway. Maybe listening to Noriaki or Cool Tak help you feel better, too.
>>173 I think people looking forward to Cristmas Day the most are children not young people, who don't think other than sex related things. In retrospect, Christmas Day was the most exciting Day over a year definitely because children believed in the existense of Santa Claus! What a romantic day it was!
So, as long as the matter is restricted to Chiristmas, I think you can forgive it.
>>181 Oh, yes, he comes from Finland! I remembered. In Sweden, Santa Clouse is supposed to bring presents every children all over the world? In Japan, that story is widely believed among children and I was also convinced his exsistense until I was 8 years old. Parents disguise himself as Santa Clause, and in the late night Christmas Eve, they put a present on near the pillow of their children. This is kind of a Japanese tradition.
>>182 In Sweden we have the tradition that Santa Claus places the presents under the Christmas tree. When I was small we had a friend to the family who would disguise himself as Santa Claus, he would then come and bring presents right after we watched Donald Duck on Christmas Eve.
But I have to go now, here in Sweden we do the big celebrations on Christmas Eve.
From 9:00pm on Nov.24 to 3:00am on the 25th is "the sexual six hour", the time when most people have sex in a year.
Every one of your acquiaintances or friends are having sex. Even the girl who usually chit-chats with an innocent look is having sex. Likewise, the beautiful woman you have a crush on is having sex. If you have an adolescent sister and she's not home right now, she's definitely having sex. The girl you broke up with is also having sex with other man, in the way you use to do. Your future girlfriend or wife is now fucking with other man's dick, huffing and puffing.
>>181 Whenever anyone reminds me that he's semi-Finnish, I can't help but imagine him sitting in a sauna for a while, followed by running outside and rolling in the snow. The being whipped by large, burly men with sticks.
A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area. The sources says that Tennessean ◆3VadybvJ.s' home is buried in sludge.
Well that is good, I guess. I've read that Japan has had problems with having sex lately. I believe the article said it would cause the population to shrink considerably in the future because of it.
>>167 Thanks for the clarification, although as someone else said, it just makes them look romantically challenged.
>>174 Haha, I was trying to emulate the tone and syntax of some sort of classical poetry. I certainly hope they don't test people on such difficult wording lol.
I am alone in this world. But I don't think everyone is alone. Some are alone, others are not alone. Those not alone are happy people. What do you think?
>>200 It's because of the power cord icon in the system tray, next to the clock. That should only appear on laptops, as an indicator that it's currently powered by the cord, rather than battery. Since desktop computers don't have batteries, of course they always use a cord. The icon would be redundant. アメリカ人 said that the icon is there on his screenshot because his computer is having an identity crisis.
Merry Christmas everyone! I'm off to my 4th of 5 Christmases this year. This one will be the biggest celebration, with most of my family. I hope you all have a wonderful time too!
>>173 Though Christmas is technically a Christian holiday, it's also celebrated by non-Christians. When you remove the Christian elements, you're left with a holiday during which families get together and gifts are exchanged. At least, that's the way it is in America.
>>190 It originates from the Greek word for Christ, "Χριστος". Did that show up alright? Anyway, it was a common abbreviation in ancient times. But now, using "X" for "Christ" is much less common, though, very rarely, you might see "Christian" written "Xian".
Interestingly, some people use "X" as an abbreviation for the syllable "kris", even in words that aren't derived from the Greek name for Christ. For example, a florist's sign might advertise "xant"--short for "chrysanthemum".
>>191 Santa was originally from turkey, Greek colony at the time. Santa was changed into a typical white man just like Jesus Christ was. I think original santa looked like Christiana Ronaldo. Hispanics in America should match real santa image.
>>237 I have ever thought Santa Claus came from Finland and so Finland is the cradle of Santa Claus. I cannot believe Santa came from Turkey or Greek . Is there evidence of it? To beggin with, he actually exsisted ?
The most pathetic beings are Christian Identity people who believe Jesus is God of white aryan race and the symbol of anti-semitism. They want to lump Hitler and Jesus Christ together as aryan martyr. Jesus Christ was a jew. Face the fact. If they want to be the true anti-semites, just throw away Chrstianity and go back to ancient peganism just like Hitler attempted.
I can understand their ambivalent feelings though. They worship the religion which was created by the jew who they resent. Hitler's belief and policy have to be compatible with their religious belief so that their admiration for hitler continues.
Then Hitler becomes an avatar of Jesus Christ and Jesus becomes white aryan race. Pathetic. Christianity : roots of racism and tempting attacks against the origin of God. Pathetic.
After all jew's religion conquered Europe. Christians and Christian identity groups in the hands of the jews.
Well, today, I have no plan to enjoy this chritmas day, and what's worse I caught a cold. However, having catched a cold is a good thing in a sense, because I got a good excuse to be inside of house. I have a big event in a few monthes, so I must make an effort to prevent my sick from deteriorating.
What happened to Jook and アメリカ人's desktops? You guys should do a virus scan right now. Maybe that's called a bacon virus. イギリス人 must have made this virus for Chrstmas. OH MY!!!
>>254 Sorry, I made a gramatical mistake. What I wanted to say was that your happiness is attributed to sayaka, in other words, you are happy now because of sayaka.
>>255 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : Will they go chase a handsome がいじん? ばいお : yes はとx : truth! ばいお : many women chase foreigener Penis 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : on the streets???? ばいお : not for some reason 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : WHOA! ばいお : having GAIJIN sex partner is high status for them 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : so if i go to Japan young ladys will chase me? ばいお : if you are hondsome 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that is true ばいお : they chase GAIJIN only becauase he is GAIJIN ばいお : How stupid 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : so there is high chance of them chaseing me? ばいお : I'm sorriy ihave noidea ばいお : if you go club you are chased by sex like women 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : i have black hair brown eyes a light tan skin. are they into this? ばいお : yes はとx : ALL right ばいお : white and black are included 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : O_o DUN DUN DUN!!!!! 電気(4 ^ヮ^)ミ田?AZWpeumso. : Hispanics? ばいお : --------------------corean--------------- or chinese are <b>not ----------------included-----------------</b> ばいお : yes ばいお : American or Europian everibody is OK ばいお : crazy women
Korean guys are considered best in the world, but I admit that there's a small number of no good Korean guys, but most Korean guys are hot and nice. Anyway, I think that's why Korean guys reputations are vast. :) I'm proud of it. :)
On the contrary, Korean are widely known as immorale. They are characterized by being bloated with pride and having an unreasonable animosity against Japanese.
>>267 Don't worry. Korean guys are absolutely popular among girls through the world. Everywhere they go, they are welcome big time. Many girls seem to want to get married to a Korean guy since those girls can't live without Korean guys. :) That shows on the internet. Many girls leave heartwarming comments on video clips dealing with Korean guys. I'm proud of it. :)
I decided one thing. From now, I go out to the department store or shopping mall to enjoy Chiristmas. I'm going to buy something good and eat delicious foods. If only I had a girlfriend ...
>>277 I feel sorry for you. If you were a Korean guy, there'd be more fish in the sea. But you are not. So forget about it and get over being a Jap guy. If you strive to better yourself, something good will wait for you, Jap.
Compared to the pitiful guy, Korean guys are asked out wherenever they go by many girls who are desperate for a Korean guy. The national brand image of Korea is really good especially in Europe, America, and Asia. That's probably why the world pays respect to Korean guys, and respect often leads to love: that's how women see men, actually.
>>279 I'm afraid Cool TAK is way better and cooler than your very best Korean guy. In fact, he could take all the girls back from Mr. Perfect if he wanted to. Your excellency, may I ask what is your take on that?
End of Christmas. It seemed that poeple here also enjoyed this special day, considering how slowly this thread is being consumed! See you guys. I'm going to take a bath and sleep on my bed, of course alone. ・・oops, I forgot my loving cat.
>>292-293 Thanks guys. If it was live, it was going on about 17 hours ago, so I guess that's why. I was able to understand "You can't watch it" and "you can't access" but I didn't know the reason.
>>302 Thanks for rapid reply. I thought those who chatting on this thread are Japanese that have studied English so hard that he or she can speak English fluently.
Maybe there are some wrongs with my English,so if my English is too wrong to understand please ignore it.
>>304 I see. Watching this thread is interesting and helps me study English,I think. Ill put my heart and soul into watching this thread from now(=^▽^=)
Merry Christmas everyone! It's late afternoon here. My husband and I spent the day making a buche de Noel, a traditional Christmas cake that is supposed to look like a Yule log. We decorated it with marzipan flowers and meringue mushrooms. I recently learned how to use Photobucket, so I will try to provide a picture:
>>317 They're not hard to make. The worst of it is that it takes 2+ hours for them to bake (in a slow oven).
Photobucket is great! I can finally post a photo of the snow we had last weekend. We got >15 inches in my part of MA. Here's my street the next day: http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg342/beijin60/2ch%20share/PC200004.jpg We didn't have much of a white Christmas though; it rained yesterday and today, so most of the snow is melted now.
>>316 My grandma made a yule log. It looked (and was) really great. I don't seem to have any pictures though. Alas.
>>318 How pretty! It snowed at my sister's house too, last week, but it was also gone by the time we got there for Christmas eve. There was just enough left for about 3 snowballs, so I saved them for the little kids. It's been rainy some at my house, but I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get snow.
>>318 I didn't know the name of the cake. It's origine is france. Eating is easy and fun but I guess making it isn't all about easy and fun. Maybe adding meringue mashrooms is common. Some Buche de Noeal csakes photos on Internet have mashrooms around them, too.
Isn't that so common to have cake on Christmas in the US?
>>326 I know what you mean but this isn't a chatroom, so when you want to talk about something, you just leave a message, then a few hours later, somone from eastern internet might respond to your comment. Friday (Japan time) is a big day for you right? The day you see Sayaka again at Gikoppoi.
>>334 Any sweet dessert is okay for Christmas. Actually, there's usually so much candy around at Christmastime that you don't really feel like eating dessert. We spent all day making the cake, but we haven't eaten it yet. We will bring it to my father-in-laws house tomorrow. >>335 If you wasn't given nothing, then you must have been given something. >>339 How is the scuba diving in Japan? My husband hates traveling, but he might go there if there was good diving prospects. Otherwise, I'll have to make arrangements to send him to Australia if I ever want to visit Japan.
I also got the "Twilight" series from my sister-in-law. It's a happy coincidence, since I've been enjoying the Vampire Knight anime on the internet. Year of the sexy vampire.
>>348 Cool. I got an 8gb usb drive, as my 2gb one had broke. I also got lots of clothes, and a sony e-book reader. It's quite nice, once you get around DRM buisness.
>>343 Actually, I meant to write "I didn't get anything." But I ate a pieces of cake, so that's OK. Japan has a kind of custom of eating cake called Christmas cake on Christmas Eve. I heard there's neither the custom nor the word "Christmas cake" in the US, so I asked the question in >>334
>>344 You should have explained that the first part was a message from サヤカ. I didn't understand where that came from ans what that was. And the AA wasn't necessary. I think the post was in gray area if you ask me.
>>346 Good! You can use one of the socks for the next year's Christmas to hang on the Christmas tree. What do you buy with the money? 4GB USB-memory, too? You got varieties of presents. I didn't know USB memory can save so much bytes. Maybe the time of CD-R/RW is over.
I wasn't given anything by anybody, but I purchased a humidifier at low price. My room used to be very dry; on getting up in the morning, I usually found my throat and inside of my mouth completely dry.
However, the situation turned out to be fine. My room is full of humidity. Christmas present to myself.
When I was in the early teens, I had enthusiasm for soccer and actually belonged to a soccer team. At that time, I longed for going to visit Europe because soccer is very popular there. Then, Nrvqsr, you are Swedish. How do you think about soccer ? Please let me know your attitude to soccer.
>>356 Yes some of the pins are getting old and worn out, plus it's a quite old PSU, I've been using it since 2003. And yes I've built my computer myself and i'm the only one who uses it, my parents have their own.
Well, I don't Sweden well, but I learned that Sweden is one of the economic powers and income of each person is high even among the people in developed countries. To put it simply, you are rich people. Why ? You are all deiigent ?
>>355 Did you play soccer in high school? One of the teachers who went to Japan with my class was also my school's soccer coach and he was really impressed with the Japanese kids' practices. I think he actually got some ideas for new drills to use from watching the Japanese kids.
>>361 Well, I think the reason is because we got a good school system which is obligatory if you want a job. That drives people to try harder. We also got industrialized very early along with the other European countries and thus we have a well worked out industry. Sweden is also one of the countries with the highest worker salaries.
If I build my own PC, the responsibility is all on me. I couldn't tell where in the PC is wrong if something was wrong with the PC so buying a PC on the shelf of a PC store is better for me.
>>366 Yes, I did, but I quit it two years after I started, in order to prepare for extrance exam for university.
Yes, the amount of practice we spend is very large. Coaches are likely to make us run quite long time. I think they like making us work as if being his slaves.lol It was very severe. I don't want to remember it..lol
>I think he actually got some ideas for new drills to use from watching the Japanese kids. lol. Funny!
>>370 Yes, yes, but haven't you been to Japan before? Or am I confusing you with アメリカ人さん? That's probably the case. Anyways, I am still interested in good dive sites in Japan. It's an island nation; there must be a few, wouldn't you think?
>>350 The "Twilight" series is a set of 4 books about a high school girl who falls in love with a high school boy who happens to be a vampire. It's extremely popular with middle-school age girls in the US. It isn't great literature, but it is entertaining.
>>375 Oh, yes. You are right. I don't know anything about diving in Japan though. I was there before I started learning to dive, and even if that weren't the case, it was a school trip. There wouldn't have been a chance. It's probably true that there are good places around japan for diving. I'd think, being an island, there would be plenty of opportunity.
>>375 As far as I know, they both have visited Japan. Jook's stayed for five weeks mainly in Fukuoka, the biggest city in Kyushu and アメリカ人 stayed in... I don't know. I've seen him upload a photo of Kyobashi, Osaka, so at least he visited Osaka. I guess as long as he can homestay, the places he visits in Japan doesn't matter much.
>>375 When are you going to visit? I mean season. Off the top of my head, Okinawa is the most popular scuba diving spot. The sea is beautiful and Okinawa is in subtropical climate but it's far away from Japan's mainland. I think you can enjoy scuba diving in places other than Okinawa, though.
I visited okinawa for my school trip when I was in jigh school. Okinawa is the greatest place I have ever been to. One female bus guide confessed that she got to like Okinawa so much after having visited it that she moved there with her family when she is in junior high school. Unbelievable.
Okinawa is a popular sightseeing spot. But there's a dark side in its history. It was one and only place the ground battles against US army was done. US military forces has been there since US's occupation. It was US's land until they get it back to Japan in 1972. Some members of US military forces has raped Okinawan girls there and they act arrogantly. Okinawa has the highest unemplyment rate in Japan.
But it's still a popular sightseeing spot. I mean, mecca of Marine sports and it's good for people in English speaking countires to visit because I think there are more signs written in English and more shop clerks who understand basic English.
Yes, the U.S. is occupied by Aliens. There are a plenty of evidence which prove it. It's you who believe it or not! (please don't regard me as an idiot lol)
Anyone? please tell me the answer of the following question. It is from the third grade junior high school examination. I can't answer which is gramatically collect.
It is ( ) that such a towel for each guest was the biginning of the table napkins Q :Chose "said" or "told" to the ( )
>>405 You're right! I was extra cautious of viruses on Christmas eve and Christmas. I hope the hat was made of frosting! Good to hear you are free from the vicious virus now!
I have a terrible listning skills when it comes to English. I couldn't understand even children's conversation well.
English has more phonetics than Japanese has. This is a true fact. Then, I wonder if native-English speakers can understand Japanese a bit more easily than the Japanese do English. How do you think ?
Sorry but I don't think >>413 is a sufficient answer. It just explains the meaning of the "said," past tense of "say"
You should explain to your students that "It is said that" or "It's said that" is a set phrase and suitable for explaining the origin of something. You can also say, "They say that" instead of "It is said that."
>>409 Actually I think both could be correct but "said" is more natural. "told" in this case makes it sound... more like a fairy tale? ex: It is [told] that once long ago in galaxy far far away... This is a very specific explanation I found: http://www.learnenglish.de/mistakes/CommonMistakes.htm#said But I agree that "said" is more correct.
>>409 It's the phrase. It isn't entirely uncommon. "It's said that..." or "It is said that..." show up now and then. That's just the way that phrase is, and it shows up now and then. But I can't give a concrete explanation
>>412 It's definitely true that English has more sounds. It could be that it makes it easier to listen, but I can't compare: You see, I've never been on the other side of the fence. Anyway, there are some things we don't hear quite right in Japanese. For example, はひふへほ sounds like half way between an H and an F sound. That is, は sounds like a mixture of "ha" and "fa" This is especially prominent with ふ for some reason. I've never seen an english-native write romaji for ふ as "hu" only "fu"
another thing is extended sounds. It's difficult to tell ここ from 高校 for example. This also applies to small っ. It can be hard sometimes to tell if it's there or not. Unless you speak slowly, the sounds can blend together, so even if it's obvious to you guys that you said かっぱ or かぱ, it can be hard for us to hear. Note that I don't even know if those are real words - I just couldn't think of two real words whose only difference is a っ
>>420 >...don't even know if those are real words... I am aware that a kappa is a water-dwelling mythical creature somewhere between a turtle and a duck. Or something.
>>420 Yeah, it's impossible to compare the two languages becaus of the reason.
Subconcsiously we don't utter clearly something which seems unneccessaly, so it maybe hard to understand clearly until you get familier with it. (Though I couldn't understand at all when young people are talking very fast.) Anyway, thanks for your personal experiences.
>I am aware that a kappa is a water-dwelling mythical creature somewhere between a turtle and a duck. Or something. true
Well, it seems that the difference between L and R is easier for even Japanese to distinguish. There are more difficult words to tell from though I don't know exactly.
>>429 The family of four are traveling on the train. And the guy who kept pumping his arms up and down is one of the two children. The father threw away all the emptied cans out of the window. The かっぱ complains to the father claiming cans almost hit him but while accusing the father of throwing away, the かっぱ speaks ill of one of the kids, saying his face looks like a fool. The minute after the father heard it, he hit the かっぱ on the head. Then the situations becomes the opposite, the father turned the table.
can anyone tell me what languages are displayed here?
i know my Windows me supports kekekeke Korean but there is some languages i never seen that is right here ∧_∧ (´∀` ) / ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ / \ < मैं अध्यापक हूँ। || || \______________ || || __ //_ //___ / // // / /  ̄  ̄ // || ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄|| || || ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄|| || || ओ एक्सप्लोइटेबिल || || || ||
>>429 They speak Osaka dialect so don't be discouraged if you don't understand them. And the act of pimping up and down his arms is to look like he's a kid.
>>434 I was not so seriou, so you are ok. but what is >>442 ? I didn't think that kind of words were uttered out of your mouth do you know the meaning ?
>>454 *【火花(4 ^ヮ^)】ミ田 (Louisiana) A boy also known as Sparky who lives only in cyber space. Sometimes you have a feel that it's easier to communicate with cats and dogs than him. Some says he's a gifted troll but he insists he's gifted in science and math. Administrator of deserted image boards. http://4chan.b33r.net/sparky4/+4/ He's in serious love sickness. At Bar Gikoppoi, he met his cyber girlfriend. It's said that his Windows Me PC calculates 4 times faster than IBM's Deep Blue.
*This is being directed to our friend in Australia, and no body else*
English is the most disgusting and unusefull language. there is no future for this stupid unusefull language. nobody can deny it. but interestingly there are someone still be interested in learnning English and be proud of it. most of them are like someone who picks their noses all day long or wets their pants every single day and cant aware of it. they rednecks are only able to count the number from 1 to 10, and they can never figure out how to count further more. English is old and cheap and uninteligent, its like 80's music. people have a certain amount of intelligence speak Japanese or Chinese. Cant find stupid thing to do other than learning English.
>>458 Both of them are right. However, in terms of grammar, "relating to" and "related to" are totally different. The former is a prepositional phrase, meaning the same as "about", and the latter phrasal verb, having some other meanings.
>>466 Oh, thanks, I could understand your point vaguely.
What you mean is that 'the former is something like idiom' and 'the latter is the passive form'. Anyway, I realized both of them are correct and I'm satisfied enough.
>>458 You can use "related to" and "relating to" interchangeably, and these phrases are commonly used in the sense of "phrases describing/talking about money".
But in truth, I think that this usage is a little sloppy. Because the verb "relate" just implies a relationship between the two items in the sentence. It could be a causal relationship. So you could have "high incidence of disease related to poor living conditions, inadequate nutrition etc." Or it could be a kind of lineage relationship: "a virus related to smallpox". However, if you are talking about phrases or a book or documents or whatever which are about money, better choices would be "phrases concerning/regarding money", since that means that the phrases are about the subject of money. But as I said, native speakers often don't make that distinction, so I wouldn't worry about it.
>>460 I don't understand his gripe against '80s music. Wasn't that the beginning of technopop?
My latest Guitar Hero 5-star conquest (I'm playing on medium level now!) This one goes out to all the young lovers on 2ch. http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aWPTCc2r0 Note: this is the actual original video, and not some bogus AMV. I would never have guessed the singer was an otaku. Learn something new every day!
>>468 Ah, I understand. I learned not only the fact that those phrases are interchangeable, but something more important related to the deep understanding of English. Thank you very much, nice house wife! and good night.
>>468 I'll help you with my 10 fuormulas of English grammar(^-^*)
You can use "related to" and "relating to" interchangeably, and these phrases are commonly used in the sense of "phrases [ describing/talking about money ]". But in truth, I think [ that this usage is a little sloppy ]. Because the verb "relate" just implies a relationship between the two items in the sentence ]. It could be a causal relationship. So you could have "high incidence of disease [ related to poor living conditions, inadequate nutrition etc ]." Or it could be a kind of lineage relationship: "a virus [ related to smallpox ]". However, [ if you are talking about phrases or a book or documents or whatever [ which are about money ], better choices would be "phrases [ concerning/regarding money ]", [ since that means [ that the phrases are about the subject of money ] ]. But [ as I said ], native speakers often don't make that distinction, so I wouldn't worry about it.
You can use "related to" and "relating to" interchangeably, and these phrases are commonly used in the sense of "phrases [ describing/talking about money ]". But in truth, I think [ that this usage is a little sloppy ]. [ Because the verb "relate" just implies a relationship between the two items in the sentence ], it could be a causal relationship. So you could have "high incidence of disease [ related to poor living conditions, inadequate nutrition etc ]." Or it could be a kind of lineage relationship: "a virus [ related to smallpox ]". However, [ if you are talking about phrases or a book or documents or whatever [ which are about money ] ], better choices would be "phrases [ concerning/regarding money ]", [ since that means [ that the phrases are about the subject of money ] ]. But [ as I said ], native speakers often don't make that distinction, so I wouldn't worry about it.
>>474 Haha, if only it was so easy. You can't read newspapers or BBS like that
Even with furigana, if I don't know the character's meaning there's no way on earth I can understand what it means like for example: 橋 箸, 血 地, 火 日 非 they sound the same but mean completely different tings LOL
I didn't read much of it at the time because we mostly discussed things in class, but it is pretty funny to read now after I've seen a bit of Japan. You can read a sample of it by clicking on the picture of the book in Amazon. Tell me if any chapters from the Table of Contents pique your curiosity. Maybe I'll read some and you Japanese can tell me how accurate it is lol.
>>481 Oh wow, I just realized I've been to the place on the cover of the book. It's Asakusa right? I bought a lot of gifts there to take home to my friends and family.
>>481 I want to know about "silence" p51. I heard American has three seconds rule where if one person says nothing for three seconds, it's the other person's turn to say something.
>>489 I think your profile there is accurate. What do you want?
>>490 You got stood up by Sayaka? Aspiring to Japan is one thing, living here is another. Your top priority is to get on your own feet. You can depend on your parents because you're still 17 but I can't imagine you'll take care of yourselves in 5 years. I hope I'm wrong.
>>491 I'll read that section and write a summary here later. >>492 That's the age old question isn't it? Well, I personally look forward to seeing my friends at school. Sorry, that probably isn't much help but school always sucks... Just look on the bright side of life.
P103 Haragei is rediculous if it means you show your stomach on which eyes and mouth and noses are written to look like a face. That might be popular a generation ago.
Your Japanese teacher is Japanese and he/whe went to Japan with you?
>>494 Don't behave like a spoiled child!! Choldren in the poor country cannot go to school even if they want to go!! The school is a studying place.You have to enjoy studying.
you know i had connetions with electronics since i was 4 [VCR, and yes that same VCR from 1995? is still around]3 i love robots too you know? Electronics are DA'BOMB!
>>490 It's likely that now your mind is filled with a thought that you have to go to Japan so as to be chased by Japanese girls.I assumed. But you don't have to worry because many people here also long for having sex with cute Americans!
The phrase "easy, tiger" means "You're being too enthusiastic, so take it easy", or "You're being fierce/violent, like a tiger, so calm down a little". If an athlete is using too much energy and exhausting himself, his coach might say "Easy, tiger!".
However, it can also be "dirty talk", because if a man is being too rough or too fast during sex, the woman might say "Easy, tiger!" to let him know. It's more affectionate and kind than saying "Stop that, you idiot!"
Ahh, this one is difficult. The verb "to long for" means to want, very much. If you haven't seen your girlfriend for eight weeks, you could say "I long for her kisses!" But it's different from "to want", because "to long for something" means that without that something, you are suffering. This verb is similar to the verbs "to crave X" and "to pine for X"; "crave" includes the feeling of hunger, and "pine" includes the feelings of desperation and sickness.
However, this sentence is a little bit wrong. "To long for X" requires that X be a noun. If you want X to be a verb, you say "to long to X".
"I long to have sex with cute Americans" "You long to have sex with cute Americans" "She longs to have sex with cute Americans"
and so on. The nound form of the verb "long" is "longing". If you say "She was filled with longing", it means that "she was filled with the feeling of wanting a particular thing". That particular thing can usually be guessed from the context.
>>503“long for” is a phrase which means “anxious to”though I'm not sure. I was surprised to know this phrase is no longer used at least around you. I have to note it.
>>504 I have no idea coz I know about you very surperficially; I know how you look like on the internet only. If you have a decent personality and are fluent in English, you have a chanse. Well, judging from how you have been so far, it maybe difficult unless you're guite handsome.
If the girl is cute or beautiful, I would like to fuck them regardless of race.
Although, I am cautious of blacks... but there are quite a few gems among their people. It is just my personal observation, but I find that many black women are far more energetic and enthusiastic about things than other women.
I have seen black wnmen no more than a few times so far except in tv programs or movies. I think one of the reasons is that we are likely to stair at people different from them. Huh... I feel scared and creapy to imagine the sight... If I were black, never visit Japan.
米人, what do you think about my illustrating sentense structure of English? Is it wonderously miraculous? I got all this from my lord Jesus. Is He your lord, too?
You can use "related to" and "relating to" interchangeably, and these phrases are commonly used in the sense of "phrases [ describing/talking about money ]". But in truth, I think [ that this usage is a little sloppy ]. [ Because the verb "relate" just implies a relationship between the two items in the sentence ], it could be a causal relationship. So you could have "high incidence of disease [ related to poor living conditions, inadequate nutrition etc ]." Or it could be a kind of lineage relationship: "a virus [ related to smallpox ]". However, [ if you are talking about phrases or a book or documents or whatever [ which are about money ] ], better choices would be "phrases [ concerning/regarding money ]", [ since that means [ that the phrases are about the subject of money ] ]. But [ as I said ], native speakers often don't make that distinction, so I wouldn't worry about it.
I mean those teachers [ who have been only at college going high schools ] and [ who are so jellous of me for [ my being too able [ to run up with me ] ] [ that who are going to become panicy and insane and crazy ] ] ].
Who else but myself can say things [ as he has in the heart as freely [ as I do ] ] ]?
Many girls like bad boys. Are you a bad boy? I read an article from a psychology magazine which gave an in-depth insight onto why bad boys are popular. From what I remember, it said many women are attracted to men who have qualities which would have been genetically useful in ancient times (for reproducing) - great physical strength, confidence, bravado - the typical "alpha male" traits. Although, unless you are a bad boy by nature, you shouldn't try to change your personality because it also said that women can sense when a guy is acting. Imagine they have invisible tentacles that are constantly feeling for any body language or signs which are unnatural. They will easily know whether you are a real or a fake.
Don't worry though, it said over time, women start to prefer nice and thoughtful guys. They only lust for bad boys and alpha males in their youth and chase after them in hopes of turning them into good fathers later on. It said that girls want the strong, dominant genetics traits while at the same time having someone who will take care of them and their children.
>>523 Many girls like bad boys. Are you a bad boy? I read an article from a psychology magazine [ which gave an in-depth insight onto [ why bad boys are popular ] ]. From [ what I remember ], it said [ many women are attracted to men [ who have qualities [ which would have been genetically useful in ancient times (for [ reproducing ]) - great physical strength, confidence, bravado - [ the typical "alpha male" traits ] ] ]. [ Although, [ unless you are a bad boy by nature ], you shouldn't try to change your personality [ because it also said [ that women can sense [ when a guy is acting ] ] ]. Imagine [ they have invisible tentacles [ that are constantly feeling for any body language or signs [ which are unnatural ]. They will easily know [ whether you are a real or a fake ]. Don't worry though, it said over time, [ women start to prefer nice and thoughtful guys ]. They only lust for bad boys and alpha males in their youth and chase after them in hopes of [ turning them into good fathers later on ] ]. It said [ that girls want the strong, dominant genetics traits [ while at the same time having someone [ who will take care of them and their children ] ].
Jesus' structure illustration is great and ever [ exceeding ], isnt it!? Would you give me a bit of your comment for Jesus' sake?
They will easily know [ whether you are a real or a fake ]. Don't worry though, it said over time, [ women start to prefer nice and thoughtful guys ]. They only lust for bad boys and alpha males in their youth and chase after them in hopes of [ turning them into good fathers later on ] ]. It said [ that girls want the strong, dominant genetics traits [ while at the same time having someone [ who will take care of them and their children ] ].
Jesus' structure illustration is great and ever [ exceeding ], isnt it!? Would you give me a bit of your comment for Jesus' sake?
(translation) I have a question to retarded foreiners here, ok ? The phrase 'peace out' is stil used in the U.S, especially when you part from someone ? I wonder if it is no longer used now.
I don't know why he asked a question in a polite way in spite of regarding foreigners here as idiot.
>>523 You just explained why "alpha male" is popular, but that doesn't explain why bad boys are popular. You need to explain the connection between the alpha male and bad boys.
>>548 I don't know. I can't believe people who browse 2ch with 2ch browser. Using 2ch browser means you admit you are a hard core 2ch user and addicted to it. So I haven't installed it. Installing it means you keep using 2ch and wasting time in 2ch if you ask me.
>>521 Yes, I am a practicing Christian, but I don't remember Jesus saying anything on the subject of grammar. Are you identifying clauses in the sentences? That seems more in line with Santa Clause and less with Jesus if you ask me...
>>543 That was silly of him; now, no one will answer his question! If he had been nice about it, I could have told him that according to my 14 year old son, no one really says that anymore. And that it can mean either "goodbye" or "fuck off", depending on context. But since he called us retards, I can't say that.
>>545 Many young girls like bad boys, because they believe that down deep, bad boys are just misunderstood good boys, and that somehow love will reveal their inner wonderful, sensitive guy. Then those girls learn the hard way that many bad boys are just jerks, and that they have been wasting their time. If they have any common sense at all, those girls then give up on bad boys and turn their attention to decent guys. Many bad boys share characteristics of alpha males: confidence, knowing what they want, natural leaders etc. That is what first attracts many girls, since many girls have a secret fantasy that some really desirable guy will fall for them, even though they are nothing special. Bad guys take advantage of that naive belief.
>>557 I think you're forgetting about the Eight Beatitudes of Grammar...
Blessed are the verbs, for they shall denote a state of being. Blessed are the adjectives, for they shall help describe. Blessed are the adverbs, for they shall give you scale. Blessed are the pronouns, for they shall determine the antecedent. Blessed are the nouns, for they shall identify. Blessed are the conjunctions, for they shall join sentences, clauses or words. Blessed are the prepositions, for they shall link nouns. Blessed are the interjections, for they shall inherit an exclamation point.
It's been an eventful Christmas. Got 'flu, as predicted by 2ch. Had a marriage proposal from a co-worker. And drank more alcohol on one day than in the rest of my life combined (literally).
>>560 It would have been much less awkward if she'd done it after drinking questionable amounts of wine... but announced that if she wasn't married in five years time, I was to be the groom. To escape, I plan on having a sex change operation and to then move to Iran. Can't go wrong.
>>561 This is also a bit awkward... you may be thinking of that Russian girl from a while back... well, that never really was going to work out because of work and distance. Had a couple nice meals, but decided to just keep in touch rather than try anything serious. Now, however... I'm very fond of the girl who sits behind the one who proposed.
This is a bit of a mess, really.
>>562 Used to be a practising Catholic, up until around 15 or 16. Your mother's Panamanian, so there's not much surprise you've had it hammered into you.
>>563 Poor you! Maybe you should move to Canada and become a lumberjack. Or an alligator wrangler in Australia. I don't think you want to try living as a female in the Middle East.
Hey イギリス人, according to someone, you have a diplomat father and then would live in various place all over the world. How did you acquire English skills?
The characters in Band of Brothers are amazing. A lot of the battles are probably exaggerated, but they are based on real events. It seems incredible that Winters, Lipton, and especially Speirs were able to live through the war. Speirs surviving the sprint through the German front lines during the fight at Foy seems like just pure luck. So does Winter's suicidal assault on the German SS unit (where he just walked up to a whole company of them and started shooting, alone).
Here is the scene from Foy with Speirs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8NWv74i3o (starts at 7:40) I can't believe he had the balls to do that in the actual battle and survived.
>>576 That's right, I was brought up in countries where English wasn't a primary language. However, the books I read were mainly English, and the schools I attended were all English-language. In Singapore and Germany they were British private schools, and the school I attended in Ethiopia was American, so as far as languages are concerned, English was primary in the curriculum - though we were still expected to learn the local languages, or at least start to.
Hey guy ! Good morning ! I get up just now . I went to bed at 3:30 yestesday , so I still sleepy . Do you think that I spend too much time sleeping ? I am going to go shopping today , but my hair style is terrible now . Do you go any where today ?
>>581 Then, how about your accent? British one? or another? Beside, did your family hire teachers in order to make you or your siblings take extra lessons?
@The books that children meet at school will probably be the ones which have the greatest influence on their lives. ATherefore it is essential that they provide for all the varying moods and tastes of the moment, and for different levels of attainment as well. BWith a small range, the chances are that a child will like everything, or dislike everything. CIf children are to learn to discriminate in their reading, as in everything else, then they must have around them as great a variety of books as possible from which to choose.
In the matrix clause of the forth sentence of the passage above, there can be found two pronouns, 'they' and 'them'. What does each of these two pronouns refer to respectively? In my opinion, both of them refer to "children" in the protasis. But some people assert that the former of them refers to "teachers", which is, according to them, tacitly implied in the backdrop of the passage, and the latter refers to "children", an assertion which is woefully weird even in the light of what little knowledge I have about the English language. (I'm a Japanese who have never been abroad.)
Would anyone be kind enough to answer this question?
>>579 That is quite accurate. Eloquence is not considered very effective in interacting with others in general, as the person could appear just superficial, or worse yet, self-absorbed especially if no one asks him/her for their opinion. Also, you might have heard of "本音(honne)" and "建前(tatemae)", which mean "true feelings" and ""facade"; we have to separate those depending on the situation. So, it'd be better to shut our mouth when we cannot come up with any suitable bullshit. And of course, that shouldn't be extended to politicians, as you mentioned.
>>563 Is Catholic dominant in the north of England? Neil Tennnant from Newcastle was made to go to chatholic boarding? school. He didn't like the idea of catholicism because he was gay.
>>590 No, parent's influences aren't always so large. For example, there are many people who cannot speak English thoughtheir mothers are English speakers.
>>587 I have a crazy accent, mainly because of the reasons >>590 gave. It's sort of halfway between the two. As for teachers, the only tuition I received was from the schools themselves. I think my sisters got extra tuition, but they were born about 20 years before me, and lived in different places (such as Malaysia, Hong Kong and Israel).
>>588 I would agree with you and say that both pronouns refer specifically to the children. "Discrimination in their reading" - no child would be expected to learn to discriminate in their teachers' reading and thus the books surrounding 'them' would be around the children.
>>588 As I read the fourth sentence, both "they" and "them" refer to the children. Teachers haven't even been mentioned in the passage yet, so it would be odd to have a pronoun refer to them. I think your friends are reading too much into the sentence.
>>594 Twenty years are very long interval. Well, it's against my expection that you didn't take extra tuition since I thought it's natural or obligation for children of deplomats to do so and study even in your house. BTW, if your parents are both Canadian, why you became British ?
>>589 Special thanks to you for bothering to answer the question, in spite of the fact that you are now engaged in a self-searching trip. The word "reclusive" is inextricably (though mysteriously) associated in my mind with Jerome David Salinger or Thomas Pynchon, and so you may be a reliable person with a marvelous flair for language.
>>594 >>595 Thanks a lot for answering for the question!
>>594 I also think 広末涼子 is cute and beautiful, though I'm not as ardent and passionate an admirer as you.
>>595 Plant lovers are always a sensible people with common decency. (Though, alas, I'm not one of them. Not that I hate plant.) I sincerely hope you will emancipate yourself from game addiction. (Excepting the case where you are enjoying the addiction.)
>>563 Then my memory was wrong. I thought you go out with someone who's British. Maybe that's the girl you're interested in going out with but haven't asked her to see you yet. Anyway I remember you said you have someone British who has drawn your attention. Maybe my memory was wrong again.
I remember you went somewhere in UK to have lectures from a female Russian professor. Maybe the Russian girl you mentioned is a girl who were lectured by the same professor on that occasion.
I remember one more girl you mentioned before. She works in a comic book store in your neghborhood. She spotted you trying shoplifting an erotic comic book and she almost called the police but you gave her one of the hats in your collection and you're let go. Again my memory might be wrong here, too.
>>601 I don't know how to answer this. Are you asking me why "respect" means a different thing than "respective"? I'd say that there's no real reason. Words just happen to evolve in certain ways over time.
Still, I tried to do some research. The two words have a common ancestor: the Latin word "respectus". The meaning of that was closer to the neutral word "regard". That's more like the meaning of "respective", I think.
Actually, I looked all of this up on the internet, so I don't know how accurate I am. I probably messed something up. Don't believe anything I say.
>>593 That's a case of jerry fujio. His mother was English. However he could speak English in his early youth, which can be the one example that contradicts your theory. Jerry's mother got neurosis in Japan and went back home. Jeryy forgot English at all. If a parent tries hard, his or her child can acquire his or her native language more or less. Anyway in イギリス人's case, both parents spoke English only in the house. On top of that イギリス人 went to English school.
>>604 Oh, enough lectures. I was just curious about it, because these meanings are dramatically different. I did guess there maybe no reasons for that, though.
>>605 The fact doesn't contradict my theory at all because I didn't said that parent's doesn't influence their children at all. I just said that parent's influence isn't not always big when it comes to acquiring the language.
If there is a will to teach, parents can assert big influence.
Moreover both イギリス人's parents are English speakers and only speak English at home. They wanted to bring up their son as English speaker. In this case I thought parent's influence was big. You said no, .... How could イギリス人 not acquire English? First I started talking on the case of イギリス人.
Your >>593 seem to imply that either parent is English speaker and live in home country of the other parent.
If イギリス人's mother had been English and his father had been japanese, If his mother had not been serious about teaching English, If イギリス人 had gone to Japanese school, there would have been a good chance he could not acquire English.
I won't argue in that if there is no effort, there is little influence.
I'm really envious of those who are bilingual, because my English is awfully atrocious, compared to my Japanese.
An enormous amount of time it invariably takes me to merely recall to my mind the precise English constituents which appropriately represent what I would like to convey, thwarting my attempt, every time the craving floats up to the surface of my subconscious, to hold smooth conversation with others in English.
I even can't compose intelligible English sentences without reference to a dictionary.
>>611 >Moreover both イギリス人's parents are English speakers and >only speak English at home. They wanted to bring up their son >as English speaker. In this case I thought parent's >influence was big. You said no, ....
Reconsider what I meant. I DID NOT SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS. Who denies the parents' influence when the situation is like above ?
I used pertial negation. So, your example can't contradict my theory logically.
>>580 I don't know what you're talking about. You need to explain the drama first. Actually I don't even know if that's a drama series. Is it broadcfast in Japan? Maybe I'm asking the wrong person.
I'm not a big fan of drama but never heard of Band of Brothers. 24, Lost, ER, Heros, CSI and more were/are broadcast in Japan, though. For some you have to subscribe to cable TV.
I guess it's the drama during the WWII. Maybe after America forces landed on Normandy to make French people free from German forces?
Most television shows in America are created with no real "end" in sight. The creators hope at, at the end of the first season, the show will be successful enough to call for a second season. And then, after that, there might be a third season. And so on, and so on. Usually, this continues until the quality of the show drops so much that the show is canceled.
Band of Brothers wasn't like this, though. From the beginning, there were a preplanned number of episodes. In America, they call this type of show a "miniseries".
Anyway, the miniseries is based on a book of the same title. Let me copy-paste the description from Wikipedia:
The narrative centers on the experiences of E Company ("Easy Company") of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, from Easy's basic training at Toccoa, Georgia, through the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Bastogne and on to the end of the war.
>>615 Thanks for explaining how US dramas are made. To think that ER lasted for several "seasons," I guess it was popular quite a long time not being bored by the audience.
I can't believe it! I leave for a couple days and I've already missed half of a thread! orz
>>71 >"* keira=robotintokyo (California) A woman who once announced that she'd start vlogging, but she's so lazy that she hasn't even tried it. Loves to travel with her family. "
This is true!
>"Last time she visited Japan, she cosplayed and strutted on the Takeshita street in Harajuku. She loves to sing Harajuku Girls by Gwen Stefani when she goes to Karaoke with her friends."
This is not true. lol, but I do love karaoke.
>>612 Your english is not atrocious, as much as it is unnecessarily wordy.x3 It's a bit obvious that you use the dictionary because your words are not very casual at all. very... textbook-like. Work hard and practice with us here! Hopefully you will become more fluent this way, since you are insecure about it.
Let me also go off topic about something that's been on my mind today.
What is it about run-down and abandoned buildings that is so interesting? Many people (myself included) love to explore building that are vacant and kind of decaying... I wonder what makes it so spooky yet alluring. What do you think?
Umm, I watched a TV program and some of guests were talking about the possibility of occuring war in Iran. They said that America may resort to war so as to get out of this economic crisis. I think that war aren't likely to occur, but what I feel scared was that a lot of Americans have that kind of idea somewhere in their mind.
>>622 Different strokes, and unfortunately, I don't have much interest in decayed buildings, however, I know some group of people who are totally obsessed with dams! They seem to be able to spend hours just admiring dams......
>>622 Well, if you have compatible friends, it may be interesting. Unfortunatelly, I have no such freinds, so at least now, that doesn't attract me. Though that has attractive points essentially.
>>626 The US is currently in a economic basket case, so I don't think they can afford to engage in a war for some time to come. Also, I don't think Barack Obama wants to be rememberd as a war-prone president.
>>628 >>629 I see, I guess urban exploring isn't as popular as I originally thought! I think the interest of seeing an abandoned building is probably similar to looking at super old black and white photos. Maybe it's something about the history that will never come back that draws people in. Hard to explain I guess. >_>;
>>632 Talking about the globally deteriorating economic situation, did you buy/receive less Christmas presents compared to the past? As for myself, since my TV started to disfunction (the screen became yellow-greenish, so everyone on TV seemed to have liver problem) and so did my watch, I had to spend a lot of money, and my wallet is very light now, *sigh*
>>633 don't worry, it makes me geek-out too. PA is made up mostly of places like that. I should go exploring them more. Last year some friends and i went to one near by our school. I submitted to that site but it seems they did not upload them. maybe i should try again.
>>591 Ah ok, so I guess the book has some merit. My teacher did mention 本音 and 建前 once, but it's always better to here from a native. (Oh, and my Japanese teacher is not Japanese. I think someone asked about that previously but I forgot to answer.) I loved your line, "So, it'd be better to shut our mouth when we cannot come up with any suitable bullshit." It made me literally lol. >>607 Glad you liked my voice lol.
>>643 You may feel embarrassed to hear a lot of complement, but I have to say that your speech was good. (though I couldn't understand all contents) What I impressed the most was your way of speaking. Nice guy.
Thanks for all of the links guys. :) The vacant buildings make me wonder about all the stories that once passed through. Those buildings had once been a significant part of some peoples' lives. makes you wonder~
>>643 I think you just want to introduce the blog where there are articles and pictures of ruins but there happens to be a photo of a robotinsomewhere.
>>620 Textbook-like, yes. I have had almost no occasion to talk with native speakers of English, and the channel by which I absorb knowledge about English is virtually confined to books, newspapers/magazines and ipod programs.
Anyway I'll try to use English as many times as possible, though I have formidable difficulty in following the velocity with which the conversation unfolds in this thread.
Thanks for responding to my posting.
>>632 The Economist says the latest round of the confrontations between Israel and Hamas "could light the fuse for a wider regional war" because Hizbullah, which has a close tie with Iran and Syria, may join the present strife.
The US may be dragged into a war once the current conflict between Israel and Hamas spreads all over the Middle East.
>>650 Your English looks good to me, I'm actually pretty impressed. I don't think much will come of the conflict. It's just the same old violence in the region that both sides are perpetuating. God is not a real estate agent; both sides should learn to get along.
Because initial letter of boody corresponds to that of British. That's why the scottish never use it. This is my opunion. I want to here others opinions.
I've completed Tear Crisis lately. It's really an interesting DS game. What I'm content with is that I successfully recruted all 108 guys with a star power in them. Clodechilt and Fledegnd sisters are my favorite characters. Their coordinate attack named Divine Edge is really powerful and fun to watch. Anyway, the story is sort of complicated and remarkable. It took me more than 60 hours to finish it up. I remember it was really shocking that I chose to sacrifice 108 stars to defeat Kind One and ended up becoming him. How really impressive that plot was.. Anyway, if you are looking for an interesting RPG, I strongly recommend this.
>>656 >>657 I hope this conflict will not lead to a larger one.
>>656 By the way, I have listened to your summary on the chapter 沈黙, though I can understand less than half of it, thanks to my poor listening ability. (Actually I can figure out almost nothing in CNN news update.)
Anyway, I hear that Japanese people just smiles and smiles without saying anything when faced with something they cannot understand. (When thrown into the same situation, I could probably observe myself wearing the same creepy countenance on my face were I able to generate my doppelganger and look at myself from his (or my) viewpoint.)
Is this uncanny smile related to a theory of silence?
>>656 >God is not a real estate agent It can't be helped. As you may know, considering the circumstance they are in, it'd be safe to say God himself as good as created the main cause of their conflict. Religions make the world complicated. Of course, England has something to do with the conflict, though.. Plus, now that jewie has the position of controling America, America can't talk them out it fair and square. The world is really difficult to bring peace to.
It was on my way back from a residential school for my studies that I met that Russian professor on the train. She was the girl I was interested in. As for the English girl, well, this is only the second time she's ever been mentioned - the first being in >>563.
However, you got the last part right. Fortunately I was able to bribe her with a particularly attractive fez and all charges were dropped. Unfortunately, though, I missed that month's magazine featuring hats in compromising positions.
>>597 Only my father was Canadian - my mother's English, so I've had dual-nationality since birth.
>>668 War may be too strong a word, but I don't think things are simple in that region at least. I expect you know how Israel was bult as a country after World War 1... And the sanctuary of the religions is the same. It's too complicated to settle the dispute between them. Of course, I hope they can get over it by peaceful negotiations, but it seems it'd take lots and lots of time to do so. What do you say?
>>662 I tried transcribing it. There are a few words I can't write down or I'm not sure of. I needed to look up a few words I didn't know such as "falsity" and "copout." Hope someone correct me. Maybe American will copy and paste the original. If I'm not wrong, he said "hierarchal" when he should have said "hierarchical."
----- Hello, 2chan. This is アメリカ人, and uhh one of you requested that I read my summary that I wrote ??? chapter from "The Japanese Mind, understanding contemporary Japanese culture." uhh, the chapter is titled 沈黙, silence in Japanese communication. OK, so uhh here we go.
Most cultures use non-vervbal communications when interacting with others. Silence can also fit under this umbrella of non-verbal communications as a way of saying nothing and meaning something. This silence is much more common and usually held for longer duration by the Japanese than the western counterparts. By looking at the concept of 内(uchi) and 外(soto), which symbolize an inner truth and an outer falsity, Japanese silence can be linked to the Zen Buddhist virtue of truth only existing in silence.
Group consciousness also plays a large role in promoting silence by minimizing the importance of the individual over the collective. This encourages Japanese to keep risky opinions and emotions set themselves. Especially when in hierarchical situations.
Silence can extend (it?) to private life as well, usually as a reaction towards embarassment, such as being unable to express emotions like love. The Japanese form of silence also influences people to not confront others even if they should, and is sometimes used as a copout by politicians.
And there you have it, folks. uhhh remeber this is my own summary. I wrote this, uhhmmm, you know, based off the chapter in the Japanese mind, so I ****(pried??) left out some little details. Hopefully nothing major but uhh, just let me know your opinions are on this, how accurate this book IS, I guess, from this one chapter, at least. All right. Thanks!
>>670 I know I should learn world history more to begin with, however, I agree with you in that things are complicated there.
Maybe, you misunderstand me. The reason I asked the question(>>668) was to make the content of your post clear and confirm your attitude, because I was afraid that I misundersood these posts around yours.
Then, if you don't mind, please let me know the meaning of 'God is not a real estate agent'?
>>650 This has also come about from the re-founding of Israel as an independent state. The land came from somewhere, and that somewhere was Palestine. The country was to be divided into two states: half Arab, half Jewish. However, the Jewish side proclaimed independence and renamed the country Israel (which led to the year-long Arab-Israeli war), and that's where the tension is.
Palestine is still bitter about their land being taken away, and Israel are doing what they think is right to keep hold of their border, fearing that Palestine will try to take it back.
>>675-676 Good job. According to your subtitles, t seems that I could listen to アメリカ人's speech about 70. The, as for ' Silence can extend (it?) to private life ', 'extend' is used as an intransitive verb here, so I don't think 'it' isn't needed. Anyway, thank you. Good job.
>>699 Hmmmm..., then my memory is messed up except the shoplifting part. Seriously, though, I remember someone here asked you if you have a girl you are interested in or are in relationship. I don't know the question was which. If my memory serves right, you answered either you have a girl you're interested in or you are in relationship. Probably you answered "my heart is taken." Oh, probably someone asked you if you want to go out with a Japanese girl and you answered, "My heart is taken" or somthing.
Either way, If I'm right, that was a British girl. And that was before you posted about the Russian. But I'm not sure. Just forget my post. I'm not really sure about my memory.
>that month's magazine featuring hats
Yeah, I remember you managed to find it and won the bid later on e-bay, but you didn't pay for it as usual.
>>676 What meaning is "embarassment"? I think You might have mistaken "embracement" for "embarassment". And maybe You thought the pronunciation of "embrace" to be not "エンブレイス" but "エンバラス". Gahahaha....!
>>679 My pleasure. As for "extend (it?) to private life," maybe you're right. but I hear something between "extend" and "to" so I thought "it" is a possibility.
>>682 It's "embarrassment." That's obvious from the context.
>>675-676 Thanks! Judging from the fact that you don't use handle, you are probably Japanese. And if you are Japanese, then you are a magnificent manipulator of English, the transcription of yours serving as a testament.
>>678 I have heard in a world history class of high school about 三枚舌外交, (which may probably be rendered as "British Diplomacy of triple-split tongue",) referring to 'McMahon-Hussein Correspondence', 'Sykes–Picot Agreement' and 'Balfour Declaration'.
A spectre of the past is still haunting the Middle East. Knock wood.
Anyway, communicating in English is more demanding, both physically and mentally, than I expected. I am now drained as a shrivelled mango.
>>683 Listning to it once again, I also hear something like 'it' between the two words. Maybe, it's just 'd' sound of 'extend', but it maybe actually 'it'. You should ask it to アメリカ人 .
>>684 The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence was an attempt by the British High- Commission to encourage the Arab countries to revolt against the Ottoman Empire, allies of Germany, during World War I. It was during these that the idea of an independent Jewish homeland was given, and that it would have the support of the British. The Balfour Declaration, similarly, stated that it would support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, though this promise was overshadowed by the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was leaked, detailing plans of how to cut up the previously Ottoman-occupied territories, including Palestine.
Mangoes are delicious when fresh, but not so much when dried.
>>667 If you are Japanese, You are super-intelligent and knowledgeble for Japanese. Jews are the problem. Of course they pulled the strings of British puppet. British are responsible. But their masters is JEW. Maybe they are undividable.
>>613 There seems to be miscommunication. >>590's intention was >>611. You replied to >>590, so I assumed your reply was an counter argument to >>590's content, which might not have been well passed down. I was particulary focusing on イギリス人's case, both parents are native English spekers, etc while you meant in more broad and generalized case. I won't argue on that subject any more.
I want to ask an English grammatical problem which I noticed later. I made many mistakes in my sentences.
>parents can assert big influence. "assert" should have been replaced with "exert". >either parent is English speaker
When we say "either is OK", Does it mean that "both are ok, but no at the same time"? Is my understanding correct? >either parent is English speaker was meant to express "one parent is English speaker and the other is not". If I interpret it as "both are English speakers but not at the same time", it will be weird and unrealistic. Could >either parent is English speaker express the situation of "one parent is English speaker and the other is not"? If wrong, How should I have written?
Obama kept emphasizing negotiation and talks with Iran, which worried some Jewish democrats. Now that he was elected President, I'm not sure he can continue his policy.
>>690 He's had a few ideas I'm not too sure I wanted to hear about. They say he wants to cut the program for the ares rocket, to save money. It's really not my favorite idea.
Nice, I'm back. For any other blocked foreigners go here: http://4chan.b33r.net/sparky4/+4/4/yotsuba.php?res=240 >>675-676 Very good! You're right about me saying "hierarchal" instead of "hierarchical" lol. When I noticed though, I had already uploaded the file.
Most cultures use nonverbal communications when interacting with others. Silence can also fit under this umbrella of nonverbal communications as a way of “saying nothing and meaning something”. This silence is much more common and usually held for a longer duration by the Japanese then their Western counterparts. By looking at the concept of uchi and soto, which symbolize an inner truth and an outer falsity, Japanese silence can be linked to Zen Buddhist virtue of truth only existing in silence. Group consciousness also plays a large role in promoting silence by minimizing the importance of the individual over the collective. This encourages Japanese to keep risky opinions and emotions to themselves, especially when in hierarchical situations. Silence can extend into private life as well, usually as a reaction towards embarrassment, such as being unable to express emotions like love. The Japanese form of silence also influences people to not confront others even if they should and is also used as a cop out by politicians.
My little introduction and conclusion were done off the cuff so I don't have a transcript for those. I'll fill in the parts you missed though: "summary that I wrote [from this uhhh] chapter from" "so I [probably] left out some little details."
>>681 Ah... that one. Perhaps I never mentioned her nationality, though, because she wasn't British. Haven't been interested in anyone from here since I was about 20.
Anyway, they sent the magazine without my payment. To stop legal proceedings, however, I had a sex change operation and moved to Iran. To become a lumberjack.
@There seems [ to be some mistakes in this composition ]. AThere are some mistakes in this composition. BIt seems to me. CIt seems [ that there are some mistakes in this composition ]. A+B=C=@
>>707 It's an English imageboard. /b/ is the most popular board, but there a lot of other boards for many other topics. www.4chan.org >>710 is 4-ch like a textboard only form of 4chan? >>711 I'd say " It rained more and more heavily " is best, the other one sounds awkward. Sparky's >>713 alternative works as well. >>712 It should be seem. Seem is a plural verb and seems is a singular verb. "There seem to be some mistakes in this composition." "There seems to be a mistake in this composition."
>>715 YOU ARE WRONG! That is the F4ilchan the shittyest board of them all i don't think futaba script is in there anymore simplified 4chan = fail 4-ch = WIN! 四葉◇ちゃんねる = EPIC WIN!
@ (37) I admired Mary's singing of 'Salty Dog' in church (38) I admired Mary's singing 'Salty Dog' in church
There is a meaning difference -- (38) states that I admired the fact that she did it (Mary's temerity in giving voice to a bawdy song in a sacred place); (37) states that I admired the manner in which she sang (her syncopated style, etc.).
A (10a) I criticised [John's throwing of the dice]<NP:O> (10b) I criticised [John's throwing the dice]<Complement Clause:O>
The object argument of (10a) is a noun phrase with the nominalization 'throwing' as head, whereas the object of (10b) is the complement clause 'John's throwing the dice'. There is a difference in meaning, with (10b) stating that I criticised the fact that he threw the dice, while (10a) states that I criticised the way in which he threw them.
B A THAT complement essentially refers to some activity or state as a single unit, without any reference to its inherent constitution or time duration. In contrast, an ING complement refers to an activity or state as extended in time, perhaps noting the way in which it unfolds. Compare:
(17a) He thought that Mary would apply for the job (17b) He thought of Mary('s) applying for the job
(17a) states an opinion that the application would be made, where (17b) may be taken to relate to how she would go about it -- searching for pencil and paper, wondering how to frame the letter, then buying a stamp.
These are excerpts from a certain grammatical book, each extracted from different pages. In @ and A the author of the book seems to be saying that an ING complement clause (here, a gerund) focuses on the 'fact' that sb does sth or that sth happens to sb, while in B his assertion appears to be that an ING complement clause (here, too, a gerund) refers to the 'manner' in which sb does sth or in which sth happens to sb -- a contradiction.
Or this is not a contradiction at all, only due to my lack of understanding or my imbecility?
Would anyone give me a vital clue to this seemingly paradoxical (at least to me) conundrum?
As long as I understand, "Either is OK" is synonymous to "both are OK".
When I say "either parent is an English speaker", what will it be? Does it mean "one of the parents is an English speaker"? Or does it mean "both are English speakers? Or does it mean "at least one of the parents is an English speaker"? I used "either" to the effect that one parent is an English speake and the other parent is not. If I'm worng, what should I have said?
In japanese "either" corresponds to "どちらか一方". When I translate "either will do" literally into Japanese word by word, the translation will be "どちらか(一方)がよろしい", which is to mean that the the one selection from two choices is permissible. However "either will do" is actually "どちら でも よろしい", which is similar to "both are O.K". My confusion comes from this kind of aspect.
>>693 Thanks for the post. I found out that 4 parts of my transcrption are wrong.
Xsummary that I wrote ??? chapter from Osummary that I wrote [from this uhhh] chapter from I listened to the mp3 again and again but I can't hear "from." F sound should be distinguishable but I can't hear f sound at all. Odd...
Xto keep risky opinions and emotions set themselves Oto keep risky opinions and emotions to themselves Come to think of it, "keep----to ****" is kind of like a set phrase so there's no reason the "set" comes in there. But the combination of s in "emotions" and t in "to" sounded like "set" to me.
XSilence can extend (it?) to private life OSilence can extend into private life as well Ohhhh, that was "into"!!!
Xso I ****(pried??) left out some little details. Oso I [probably] left out some little details. Never imagined it was "probably." "bably" part, especially "b" sounds are gone but I guess this can happen when you speak at a very fast spead.
Regarding the last part of the summary, you read "and is sometimes used as a copout by politicians." but your typescript is "and is also used as a cop out by politicians. " ------ Anyway, it's great that you guys accesing 2ch from The US managed to find a e proxy server that works. Captain Spicard ◆mOdChRomEs don't have to use the proxy... Maybe only people who use Comcast as ISP have to use a proxy server? I never imagined the "deserted image board" would serve as a place to communicate to handle this problem. Thumbs up to Sparky this time. lol
>>725 Whoops, you're right. It's not "from", I said "of". And yea, I guess I improvised a bit when I read. Good catches though; I'll have to be more careful next time.
Major props to Sparky for his board. It was definitely a good backup until I found that proxy. For future reference, I just googled for non-US proxies (i.e. "russian proxy" etc.) Comcast is a huge ISP in the US, so it doesn't surprise me that Sparky and I were both taken out by the ban. 米人 and Captain Spicard, if you don't mind me asking, who are your ISPs?
I'll take a look at all those grammar questions above me in a bit.
>>728 242 12/28 15:58 ID:93TkxtTE 米人 btw, if yo. c-***-***-***-***.hsd1.ma.comcast.net
strait from the management panel in yotsuba channeru [edited out the ip address for privacy and respect] the image board record's your host and your ip
>>733 If you're banned, how can you access now? You are posting with cellphone or using a proxy server?
Maybe a spammer who use the same ISP as you are banned from 2ch and you're forced to be banned, too. That happens sometimes. From my own experience, 2ch allowed me to access again in a week or so.
As for the banned ISPs in the US, comcast.net, dyn.optonline.net, res.rr.com are completely blocked due to a recurring spammer on the anime and comic boards, and it seems to be still going on. Apparently, this mass blockage method is not working very well.
I didn't get detailed info but looks like the spamming has been going on since Christmas involving a huge number of proxies and seemingly still spamming. So yeah, 2ch banned those whole IPS users but haven't stopped the spammer yet, I guess. And I have no idea why, it looks like script spamming.
>>737 Thanks for the link. The thread is full of posters who are banned and asking 2ch to lift the ban. I wonder if there's effective ways in which everyboidy is happy.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=WNSJnXyiEx4&feature=related This is BOA. New Janet Jackson from Korea! I'm not a spokesman of korean government. But I volunteered to introduce her in place of korean spammer here. My effort will likely to be in vain because all of Americans here have been absorbed in BOA already.
I heard cannibalism is a long tradition of korea. So I "eat you up" sounds pretty fitting and dignified.
>>723 I'm not a native speaker and I bet you are a more advanced English learner. But let me say "~ing" seems to have some relation with Ohnishi sensei's theory of わしゃわしゃ, live and vivid feelings.
(17b) He thought of Mary('s) applying for the job This one and the explanation was convincing. But I'm not sure of all example sentences though.
By the way, where did you learn word like imbecility? You sound like shakespeare. I only knew his name and cinema version of his work though.
This is getting ridiculous. We're running from server to server, trying to stay one step ahead of the 2ch admins. And we haven't done anything wrong. Grrrr..... Anyways, thank you Sparky for your valuable site. And thank you アメリカ人さん for all of your hard work. I spent over 15 minutes trying to compose an answer to >>723. I'll try to recreate it now.
>>759 I uploaded it again, here ya go: http://download386.mediafire.com/jy04xmznmtlg/actx3jlg3mw/summary.mp3 >>761 Seriously. Before I post anything now I do a ctrl-a, ctrl-c to copy the whole message as a precaution. >>762 "I don't know this." sounds a bit awkward. What is the context? >>763 A few US ISPs were banned, once of which was Comcast (which 3 of us have sadly).
>>722 and >>723 In the first two example sentences (the singing of "Salty Dog" and the throwing of dice), please notice that the names can be replaced by the article "the" and the sentences still make sense. I admired the singing of "Salty Dog" in church. I criticised the throwing of the dice. In both of these cases, "singing" and "throwing" are simple gerunds, or a present participle form of the verb functioning as a noun. But the -ing form has a different function in the second sentence of both sets--it denotes the action or process in a gerund phrase (or complement clause). The subjects of the clauses are Mary and John, and in this type of construction, they would be in a possessive form. So you can't say "I admired the singing "Salty Dog" in church."; singing is not being used as a noun. All right, so turning our attention to the problematic second sentence of the third set, "He thought of Mary's applying for the job", here we have another gerund phrase, where Mary is the subject and "applying" denotes the action she is taking. This sentence is similar in structure to the second sentence in sets 1 and 2. You can't say "I thought of the applying for the job." because "applying" is not being used as a noun. Here is a nice little site that tells you more than you would want to know about complement clauses in English: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/k-lee7/www/kesl/gram/comp_clauses2.pdf
I hope that clears up the confusion. Or maybe I just made it worse.
>>746 >>748 "Loli Schoolgirl Sumo Panchira Not something you see everyday? Obviously female, obviously loli, obviously wrestling and wearing bloomers to cap things off... ... [More]" IT IS immoral!!!!
Native is a word [ which Japanese use [ to mean a person [ who speaks the language [ talked about ] ] ], [ while it means an American Indian to Americans ].
>>724 I'd take it to mean something like, "One or the other parent is an English speaker (but not necessarily both)." That Japanese is confusing, but you're right that the two phrases are synonymous. >>777 That's strange. It's just an mp3 file... I use iTunes but that really shouldn't matter. Try this: http://home.comcast.net/~gigabutt/summary.mp3
>>724 If you say "either one is fine with me", it means that you don't care which one you get, and may be a little dismissive (just give me one, doesn't matter which). But if you say "both of them fine with me", it means that the two of them are equally good. It's a little more positive.
I wouldn't say "Either parent is an English speaker." If I knew for sure that one of the parents spoke English (but wasn't sure about the other parent), I would say "At least one of his parents is an English speaker." If I knew that only one of his parents spoke English and the other one didn't, then I would say "[Only] one of his parents speaks English." (the word "only" is optional). I would say "Both of his parents are English speakers." if I knew for sure that the two parents each spoke English.
Anyways, if we're talking about イギリス人さん、I'm pretty sure that both of his parents speak English, but with regional differences, since one of them is Canadian.
In any case, I think that it is hard to translate directly word-to-word from Japanese to English without losing some of the meaning. It seems that there is an art to it.
White girls say they love Korean guys because Korean physical features are to their taste, They seem to think they want to find a Korean date no matter how much price they pay like visiting Korea and staying there until they find one. What drives them to go overboard like that? It's because they know it's worth it. White girls see a lot in Korean guys - Korean guys look gorgeous, sexy, and hot. Moreover, they are kind and smart, and self-confident and determined. No wonder white girls are attracted to Korean guys. I'm really proud of it. :)
>>784 Poor guy. No matter how hard you try, there's not even the slimest chance for you to find a white girl who are interested in you since you aren't Korean. I feel really sorry for you. Plus, you couldn't destory Korean things no matter what you do since you're incapable. Korean guys are far more masculine, physically and mentally trained, and the most educated and smartest in the world. No one would hold their own against us. Even if you try to get one step between Korean guys and white girls, you'll get beaten up. White girls love Korean guys a lot. I'm proud of it.
>>779 I appreciate your kindness. Thank you very much. I wanted to describe the case based on the assumption on which one parenet is an English speaker and the other is not. And it's not based on a specific case. It's intended for more general case. Like "If either parent is an English speaker, his or her child gets a good chance to master English". It may not be correct. But My intention is as previously said.
Either parent deceased - Either parent is missing - Either parent deserts the child one year or longer. - Either parent is incarcerated under law one year or longer. - Father is not recognized. (Birth not by marriage) - Either parent is severely disabled ----------------------------------------------- These must be based on the assumption that the other parent is "something" case regardless of which sex. These can include both sexes, but seem to be refering specifically to one man or woman. If these are permissible, won't "either parent is an English Speaker" be permissible? must be unnatural and awkward and unused, but can it be understandable and gramatically correct?
イギリス人 must be interested in k boy. Park Ji-Sung is quite famous and popular in the UK. I'm not joking. Since Korean here is American and not a soccer person, he doesn't know his own race success in the UK soccer scene. I didn't want to let his name known in this thread. Cos It was obvious every white girl and woman would jump on Park immediately. I wanted to monopolize park..
>>792 Don't make me laugh. White girls choose Korean guys because Korean guys are mentally strong and amazingly smart as well as their physical strength. You know what I mean?
Eh? Are you in Japan-time zone? Mr.perfect? Yes, korea is in the same time zone too though. I heard some silly korean politicians felt uncomfortable with sharing the time zone and tried to move time zone one minute back and forth...
>>798 You Korean run away like a dog kike you. By the way, I'v heard that Korean eat a dog. Korea have the lowest kind of culture all over the world. I just want to say to Korean is don't eat a dog.
>>802 >mentally strong sometimes mean mentally ill. I don't think so. What do you base your theory on? Can you give any established evidence to prove it? Where Korean guys are concerned, there's nothing to do with mental illness that way. Strong mentality comes with healthy mind.
White girls are enthusiastic when Korean guys are around, probably because they know being with a Korean guy makes them happy no matter what. And the thought that white girls love Korean guys make us happy too. We love each other. Korean guys and white girls are happy together. That's the unchangeable truth. And yes, nobody can stop it as you say.
Then how about the case of russian skinheads attacking you all to split the relationship? Koreans are so coward and weak that they run away from russian skinheads?
>>808 What are you talking about? If there's any obstacle that's in our way, then the bonds between Korean guys and white girls will be strengthened. Yes, we can get over it. That's what you need to know.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=1m6FI8qYjLQ&feature=related Russian skinheads shows by themselves race has little to do with intelligence or russians are not white as they believe. Anyway russian skinheads are brutal and merciless. looks stronger than Koreans. How would you do? I want to know how strong koreans are.
>>810 I understand. You are beaten by russian skinheads miserably, then a white girl friend come to hospital with a bunch of flower to comfort you. But YOU LOST. I'm disappointed....
I see. You were blocked again and now using another proxy server. Hmm... There's a possibility that you may be blocked again sometime soon. I wonder if there's a way to avoid being blocked again. Maybe you will have to give up accessing to 2ch if all proxy servers you find on the Net is blocked?
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=1m6FI8qYjLQ&feature=related Watch after 2:30. How savage and merciless they are. They won't allow any white girl to date with koreans. I don't ethical . I just wanted to know how koreans could protect white girls from the battle. Your tek won do? and braveness would be useless in front of russian skin heads. I'm disappointed. I wanted to hear a brave story from you.
>>812 You sound quite childish. Physical strength shouldn't be used to beat weaklings - that's what undereducated morons do. Like I said, Korean guys are highly educated. I don't see why you dwell on Russian guys.
>>757 I've learned the noun "imbecility" in an indirect way from George Orwell's 1984, in which you can find the adjective "imbecile" at two locations.
I'm not an advanced learner at all. 'Intermediate' is the upper limit of all the compliments one can pay to my English skills. (Preposition, Article and Tense are the Big Three of my grammatical weak points.)
But you use 'advanced' in the comparative construction, and hence it may not be implied at all in your remark that I am an advanced learner in an absolute scale, in which case what I said above has no significance whatever.
Anyway, thanks for responding to my question.
>>767 I posted a response to >>767 in "Hey Native speakers! Come and help us! Part 4".
>>813 What? Why do you escape from the battle? Why can't you say defiant words to russians? Russian guys may not take love from you. But russian skinheads can take your life! That's disappointing. You are coward and weak. You admited a defeat before the battle. I think white girls won't love that chicken!
So you paradoxically make your English sentences intentionally wordy in hopes of coming across as an intermidiate learner rather than an advanced one. That's some twist you got there..
>>816 You say russian skinheads are weaklings for you? You always kept saying provocative, derogotory words to "Japs". But when it comes to white barbaric people, you are just like sheep.
Let me know how you would use your strength and martial arts when attacked. Carrying a white girl in arms and run away smoothly? That's not bad.
>>818 Don't be dumbass. Japs are not popular among white girls because you are brutal. In comparison, Korean guys are gentle to girls with mental strength in us, which you should keep in mind.
>>817 I've been meaning to read 1984 for a long time now but keep forgetting about it. Most of my classmates had to read it for school, but I was taking a different English class at the time. For winter break I have to read "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid". Billy the Kid was basically an American wild west outlaw who killed a bunch of people. The book is historical fiction, and does not actually feature writing from Billy the Kid. However, the book is surprisingly good. Here's an excerpt:
"After shooting Gregory this is what happened
I'd shot him well and careful made it explode under his heart so it wouldnt last long and was about to walk away when this checking paddles out to him and as he was falling hops on his neck digs the beak into his throat straightens legs and heaves a red and blue vein out
Meanwhile he fell and the chicken walked away
still tugging at the vein till it was 12 yards long as if it held that body like a kite Gregory's last words being
get away from me yer stupid chicken"
What do you guys think of that poem lol? Billy the Kid is crazy (but the last line made me laugh).
Where did I say Japs are popular among white girls? I know koreans are popular among white girls. Kim Sung Jong known as Obara George proved it this time again.
Aside from this stuff, I wanted to know how koreans are strong and brave with white girls in front of the villains.
>>822 I've never read this crap in my life. You can't even tell there's a big difference between being strong and using it to hurt others. How sad to know you are silly. I hope you'll be level-headed.
>>833 Oh, hey, didn't you notice you're being silly? I don't get why you stick to the situation you set on your own? To tell the truth, it's too unrealistic to take seriously. It's not worth considering.
Korean guys and white girls like each other and no one can disturb us.
I've come to the conclusion that Japs are Japs. I mean they love violence and vandalism. That's why people all around the world like every congress are against Japan taking the position of a permanent council member. Japs would destroy the peacefull world. White girls and Korean guys are against Japanese vandalism.
Korean guys are so strong and perfect. So I had to bring up unrealistic situation to drive korean hero to the wall. You know every super hero had difficult times in the stories? Why can't you take it as fiction and continue the story? It's disappointing. You can't say one word based on even fiction. You are so afraid it can be provocative to white males. Wimps,, disappointing. Villains don't have to be russian skinheads. Whatever white will do. Any white male can be jelous of korean guy loved by an attractive white girl. It's not ridiculous to suppose koreans are attacked by white girls. Many koreans are walking with white girls. A lot of couples exist. So naturally the percentege of assault will rise up. I read womewhere the news a Black man was assaulted because he was dating white woman. It was just a couple of years ago. I know the percentage of japanese assaulted is ZERO in that case. Because no japanese is with attractive whtie woman. Thanks to japanese unpopularity and ugliness.
Japanese are obviously inferior to Koreans. There is no question about that. However it's disappointing to learn Koreans bully only inferiors like Japanese and dogs.
This korean seems to have amazingly high pride and self-concentrated ideas. He tries to make the Japanese admit Korean superiority despite insulting Japan! I wonder if he recognize he always distresses people here. Well, lastly, I want him to explain why he is addicted to white girl sincerely.
>>825 George Orwell, a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, was a champion of those who were oppressed and exploited. His philosophy, founded on the belief in the common decency of ordinary people, increases its significance in an age of oppression and exploitation in the name of 'trickle down', which is the reason why people, especially those categorized into the lower and middle classes, are strongly advised to read his books. (My dissertation is about him, albeit a miserable failure.)
The position which is in stark contrast to that of Orwell is the one epitomized by Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", which highly praises elitism, perhaps oligarchy as well, as the best way to redeem and salvage our world. I don't like this book because I hate elitism, but it is allegedly considered to be one of the books which have a strong influence on Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of Federal Reserve. If someone wants to be the rich by exploiting the poor, "Atlas Shrugged" is a must read.
"The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" seems to be a little bit too difficult for me. I'm not good at reading the sentences composed and assembled in the form of verse, because poetry stubbornly refuses "the decomposition of a sentence (a Japanese equivalent being 品詞分解)", an anatomical approach to the English language which aims to grab the meaning of a sentence by dividing the sentence into the smallest syntactical units, whose creator and exponent, 薬袋善郎, is now virtually ousted, for this grammatical regimen is of little avail against the actual and real English and has become obsolete among the sane learners of English, in spite of which I cling as adhesively to the method as a politician to money and power.
>>854 It seems you write English very well. You know difficult words and I think you are good at English grammar, too. I think you read lots of English on daily basis because good writing skill is acquired by reading a lot. What do you read on day to day basis?
>>820 I can read standard English sentences. But I can't read difficult ones (as written by Thomas Pynchon and Salman Rushdie). And I can't write English sentences as quickly and fluently and naturally as Japanese ones. My listening and speaking ability is at an unmentionable level.
How on earth can I reach the state "ぺらぺら"? Probably it'll take me as long a time to reach that state as it has taken man to become himself.
>>856 I read news articles mainly at Economist.com and occasionally at Time.com on a daily basis these days.
I'd like to read literary works more, but the vocabulary acquired in this way will not be helpful in the TOEIC test, which I'm planning to take this coming March for the first time in three and a half years. (The last (and first) time I took the test was in Nov. 2005, when I was a sophomore.)
1984 is more of a satire about a totalitarian regime that attempts to perpetuate the system and its existence by propagandizing and maintaining an on-going war, as well as through surveillance and infringement on individual freedom of its citizens as in " Big Brother". It portraits an extreme form of political dystopia rather than economic oppresion, but it is a great book, definitely.
>>859 Yeah, in 1984, economic oppression is a peripheral theme, but what was in my mind at >>854 was his non-fictions, especially "The Road to Wigan Pier".
>>858 Time and Economist... That explains why you know difficult words. If you know such difficult words, it's easy to remember words used in TOEIC test. I'm sure you can get high score in TOEIC reading section, maybe 450 or more.
When I couldn't write as good English as you, the score of my TOEIC's reading section was 455. (the score of the Listening section was 455, too, so the total score was 910.) I haven't taken the test since then. I'm not interested in taking TOEIC test anymore.
Reading difficult articles in Econimist and Times is one way to improve your reading skill, but I assume it takes a lot of time to understand them. Reading easy English a lot with less time is another way of improving your reading skill.
>>862 Knowing difficult words does not necessarily mean having a large vocabulary. My vocabulary is only partial, and I'm devoid of everyday words.
For example, I didn't know the meaning of "double occupancy" about a month ago. When I encountered it, my mind utterly boggled. (Double occupancy? 二重占領? What is 二重占領? Isn't it strange in this context?)
But is there any native speaker who doesn't know the meaning of such an everyday word as "double occupancy"?
My score in the reading section was 465 back at that time (i.e. about three years ago), and that in the listening section was, alas, 410.
When I was a sophomore, my attempt to read a cover article of TIME in one breath was always thwarted at the third or fourth paragraph because of mental exhaustion, but now I can manage to finish it, though somewhat drained as before at the end of the reading.
Anyway, thanks for responding to my posting.
(*The correct meaning of "double occupancy is, of course, 2人部屋.)
>>863I'm convinced that your modest and self-degrading attitude comes from your certain amount of confidence in English. From what I experienced, people in the similar condition as you don't actually think yourself as poor at something, such as English. They tend to show that kind of attitude out of their pride and so on. But, please don't misunderstand me. I don't have any grudge or something against you, on the other hand, I'm admiring you because of your English skill sincerely. (and I'm not 862)
>>788 You are absolutely correct--"either parent" is fine to use in the general case. The City of Nagoya site is using "either" in a perfectly acceptable way. So yes, you can say, "If either parent speaks English, then the child is also likely to master the language." (I simplified a little bit.)
In my answer, I was focused on the specific case, where you know a little bit about the person. In that case, "either parent" would sound weird to me.
>>867 If you remove the word "also" from my sentence, it sounds better.
>>825 Please don't tell me that they're teaching that poem in high school English classes--yuck. Whatever happened to "Ode on a Grecian Urn"? "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Much nicer than carnivorous chickens.
Brits must remember the crimes below before criticizing Japan's past
# Beijing massacre in 1900 (Boxer rebellion) # Opium War # Unequal treaties impositioned against Meiji Japan # Mutilation spree of Bengali cotton workers' hands # 6 million deaths of Indians by exploitation and man-made famines # Rape and murder of Burmese royal family # Boer Wars and abuse, slaughter at the Concentration Camp # Aborigine holocaust # Boming of Dresden # Native Fijians holocaust # Nuclear Bomb Test at the Aborigine habitats in Australia # Whale massacre in the Antarctic and Bonin waters # Selling arms and instigating further massacre in Nigerian Civil War # Iraq Invasion
You all are sons of criminals, fucking bloody Brits. Britain is the worst atrocity-ridden country in the world and of all time.
You know what the Bible says about hypocrisy? "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
>>866 It's not that I feel accomplished or anything. I passed Eiken Grade 1 test a few years later than when I scored 910 in TOEIC, so if I took TOEIC test now, I'm very sure that I could score more than 950. If you ask me, it's not worth keeping taking TOEIC test until I can score 980, 990 or whatever.
It's just that I realized that TOEIC and EIKEN can't measure your English proficiency correctly and I don't think I'm eager to take these kinds of test anymore.
My point is that I passed the stage where I boast about my English proficiency based on score of TOEIC or EIKEN. I said "boast" but I know my English fluency is nothing to shout about. I know my English is not as good as native English speaker. Actually, far from it.
>>864 According to >>863, double occupancy means a (hotel)room shared by two people. A room for two people. Or to share one room with two people.
I looked it up in an online dictionary. ex.) How it is used: double-occupancy discount double-occupancy office dormitory for double occupancy
Maybe it's not so commonly used by native English speakers. Are you free from 2ch's ISP blocking?
I've never heard "double occupancy" used in real-life and I've never had to use it. I'm guessing just from the word that it means 'two people occupying something.' I suppose it is something you would hear if you traveled frequently. There is a ton of English jargon that I don't know simply because I've never had to use it or even think about it.
>>873 You seem to be right. I searched the pharase and exapmle are all like "dormitory for double occupancy". Political useage was not included.
I want to know intuitive image of the phrase in your mind eventhough you didn't know the phrase. Did double occupancy for the political usage sound weird even though you've never used that term? I feel double occupation is more familiar and understandable for me. Occupancy is new word for me. "Okinawa(ryukyu) was under double occupation by satsuma(kagoshima prefecture) and china". Is it understandable? Double control could be more appropriate though.
Okinawa is essentially Japanese ethinicity but their culture is double of Japan and China.
Ummm. Envy grows again....rats! Koreans can drive with that chick on the side seat... I just can't stand it. I just can't stand it. Korea. Corea. Cholera! It's just sour grapes. Please forget my gripe. I decided to buy Hyundai sports car to get near Korean realm by one step.
>>870 I don't think we should study English specifically for tests such as Toeic. But I also believe Toeic can measure a ceartain degree of English proficiency. If we reach a certain level of English, Toeic score will be reflected somehow. Toeic measures standard, plain English skill, it does not require professional one. If we fail to get the score around 990, something must be lacking in our English skill. I think Toeic is good to measure our English skill on our way to the valley of English. We don't have to study for tests and take tests frequently. Just experiencing English everyday make us improve and that effort will be reflected in the score. Isn't it good to take the test once every couple of years or so and check the progression? 990 is not a goal and attainment. There is a wide gap even in the 990 world. 990 just proves our progression on the way. But it's not a easy task for Japanese. That's my understanding of Toeic.
>>877 I like them both. The first one has too much make-up, though. It'd be like having sex with a... pancake, or something. That and she probably has twenty STDs. Lawls.
I have a question for you guys. Why do some Japanese people think that greeting cards are only used in Japan? It's crazy. CRAZY.
Oh, and I have a riddle for all of you folks. "When is a door not a door?"
イギリス人 seems to be fed up with stereotypical white beauty represented by fashion models. But beauty of white women and virility of korean guys are gifts from God, absolute truth, aren't they?
I remember a blonde british fashion model who openly supports BNP. Japanaese won't get in her eye sight. We are second class citizen. Korean in a white cloak on the horse takes her away? Damn! Jealous again.
I'm not sure if I fully understand what you are asking me, but the political usage of "double-occupancy" does not sound weird to me. I'm just guessing the political usage of it would mean "two people occupying the same position."
>>854 Wow, that's really interesting that you wrote your dissertation on Orwell. I read "Animal Farm" when I was pretty young and only now do I appreciate it. Are you familiar with Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"? That's another dystopian classic.
I usually find poetry annoying for the same reasons you listed. I don't like ambiguity much in my reading/writing, but I still find that particular poem entertaining (maybe because it's so different from the poems I've previously read). >>868 Haha, it wouldn't be much fun if they only taught the elegant poetry now would it?
>>898 I know that wasn't directed at me, nonetheless I'm a huge Orwell fan so I have to pipe up. Animal Farm and 1984 are two of my favourite books. Fahrenheit 451 is also a favourite of mine. Have you read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley? I can't say that I recommend that one, though. It is interesting, however, that Brave New World deals with a utopia rather than a dystopia... but at the same time the author makes the utopia seem horrible.
I don't know why Mr.Sparky uses this kind of wording. Is he knowingly mimicing Japanese English or Is he just so childish that he uses broken English here?
Sometimes I can't distinguish between Japanese English and Mr.Sparky's English. Native Speakers here must be aware of the difference between our Japanese English and slangy English like Mr.Sparky's. It might be good to start from broken english to standard English. We can see how the image of words and grammer develop and shape the form.
Is "t" lacking? I presumed "he" was abbreviation of "his". Anyway "he" doesn't make sense. He writes "were" instead of "where". "useing" instead of "using". He didn't know "long for or long to". He got a lecture from a possible japanese learner. I like his character. I don't want him to change his character. He doesn't have to be serious to prove his English ability. I am just curious.
I've been terribly sick the past few days. First it was just a minor cold, but it later turned into something much worse. The next day I vomited enough that I could not vomit anymore, later my eyes became blood-shot and I became temporarily blind, and even later my ears started to drain liquid and hurt.
Medicine has been helping my eyes and ears, but my throat has been aching terribly all day still. Strangely, just a moment ago I hate a lot of fruit (mandarin oranges) and suddenly my throat is fine.
As for SF novels, Frederick Brown was one of my favorites. Now I got biased and aging, the name Frederick comes as german name and my thinking stops there. The name of the novelists didn't interest me at all at those time. My intelligence is deteriorating day by day.
Bradbury? I read 火星年代記. English title is the Martian Chronicles. 火星年代記 was an idyllic and nostalgic fantasy. I searched TV version of the martian chronicles then I found the name of Rock Hudson. Faggots! then thinking stops there. lol
I was not political at all. But I knew "Martians, Go Home" could be interpreted as political satire novel. I read somewhere maybe in the afterword that satire of McCarthism is one element of "Martians, Go Home". I believed Macarthism was absolutely evil without knowing what it truely was. I'm not sure now about it. Rosenbergs were spy. There is no question about it now.
She's gorgeous and not a girl next door type. Her face is western with big nose bone. She was my favorite actor until I got to know the other day one scandal about her. She's released her nude photo book when she was a school girl. Call me I'm naive but that was really shocking to me.
dis she have money problem? She is more ample for her age and for my image of her. It's good. I saved the photos quickly. I wonder why she had to do the job.
>>915 Where are you from, Sparky? Are you a native English speaker?
If you are, you should make sure your grammar and spelling are both nice and tight. Otherwise you might be setting a bad example for those who want to learn...
>>909 There seems to be a controversy about the credibility. Some claim it was southeast asian and most of lolis in japanese school uniform are south east asians. Can you guarantee the credibility of the identity?
>>914 Maybe some actresses have to become nude when they start their carrer in show busines. >>916 Read >>1. This thread is also for men with pedophiles.
>>918 I'm not sure 100% if the girl is Nao Matsushita, but the girl in the photos really looks like her, big nose and other facial features and figure. (I said nude photo book but seems like it was a video and photos are captured from the video.) The girl's skin looks kind of dark so there's a possibility that she is not Nao Matsushita and is from South east asians. But personaly I would vote that she's Nao Matsushita.
Do you know even 栗山千明 (Chiaki Kuriyama) released nude photos when she was a kid? Kishin Shinoyama was a photographer of the photo book. So, it isn't strange at all if Nao Matsushita became nude when she was a school girl.
>>869 They won war after war and the jews, most powerful force in the world is on the brit side. Oh and don't forget USA, another force. So brit crime keeps on hidden and unmentioned forever 'in the west and east esian side of history'. I suspect jews played a great role in the atrocities in colonies of the Great Britain. Does jews have the right to criticize others? much less arabs and iranians.
>>869 Don't forget brits created the first concentration camp in South Africa. Inmates were innnocent white dutch! And remember Disraeli was a converted jew.
It's strange jew media kept criticising South Africa. wolves in sheep clothing approach? Jews are the one who exploited resources of South Africa most. If they sincerely feel sorry for black africans there, why not give up all the fortunes back to them and leave?
Israel was built by the UK under the strong influence of jewish pressure.
And what is up with people and the Jews? Every single incident in the world is always blamed on the damn Jews. Give it up, the Jews are powerless, media and banking aside. They're too busy squabbling over wasteland with their Muslim neighbours.
Brits must remember the crimes below before criticizing Japan's past
# Beijing massacre in 1900 (Boxer rebellion) # Opium War # Unequal treaties impositioned against Meiji Japan # Mutilation spree of Bengali cotton workers' hands # 6 million deaths of Indians by exploitation and man-made famines # Rape and murder of Burmese royal family # Boer Wars and abuse, slaughter at the Concentration Camp # Aborigine holocaust # Boming of Dresden # Native Fijians holocaust # Nuclear Bomb Test at the Aborigine habitats in Australia # Whale massacre in the Antarctic and Bonin waters # Selling arms and instigating further massacre in Nigerian Civil War # Iraq Invasion
You all are sons of criminals, fucking bloody Brits. Britain is the worst atrocity-ridden country in the world and of all time.
You know what the Bible says about hypocrisy? "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
* Kaimingye germ weapon attack * Kalagong massacre * Korea under Japanese rule * Laha massacre * Manila massacre * Nanking Massacre * Palawan Massacre * Parit Sulong Massacre * Panjiayu tragedy * Sandakan Death Marches * Sook Ching massacre * Three Alls Policy * Tol Plantation massacre * Unit 100 * Unit 200 * Unit 516 * Unit 543 * Unit 731 * Unit 773 * Unit Ei 1644 * Unit 1855 * Unit 2646 * Unit 8604 * Unit 9420 * Wake Island massacre * War crimes in Manchukuo
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%82%AA%E9%AD%94%E3%81%AE%E9%A3%BD%E9%A3%9F This book by a colloboration of Japanese author and chinese government is criticised by even sincere reserchers. It's strange denying parts is a whole denial. And this "parts" are so crucial. Chinese are addicted to Sinocentrism in the east and so used to the state of slave to white people. It's also convinient for the Brits and the jews.
Brits must remember the crimes below before criticizing Japan's past
He can't read these words. As long as I remember, chinese called for aplogies related to Brits long long opression in China before the handover of hongkong, Govener patton declined it and said something like "you should thank us" in return. Chinese just shut up and couldn't retort. Japanese admited some atrocities and openly aplogized, which the U.K never did. Japanese are even better. Walrus's ridiculous, unrational whinning is destroyed at this point. Shame he has to know.
Brits are insolent and chinese grovels only before the former white master. Good combination.
And the list should go on endlessly if we divide the one british war into pieces..
hahaha. War caused by the U.K is continuing now somehow in the middle east, Africa, every where. But these aspects are discarded in the west media. That's the point. Comparision of atrocities is of no my interest. Past is Past. But critical situation in the middle east is today and future. Guys like Bob Geldof just keep shouting "world peace, save the world, we are good people!" silly.
>>937 Are you talking about the girl turning around the long green onion? I don't know how difficult it is to make that kind of image. Maybe anime fans love it.
>>942 very very very very few image boards have animated thumbnail feature [my image board is the only one that supports the that i know of] what do you guys thing about the animated thumbnail FEATURE*????
Ah, Bob is Irish. But he represents typical mindeset.
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime The greatest gift they'll get this year is life (Oooh) Where nothing ever grows No rain nor rivers flow Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
I freeze at these lyrics. They are so arrogant than they can't notice how rude they are to africans.
? but giving money and food are good thing no matter what causes, compared to Chinese resource diplomacy in Africa. Brits regards Arficans as inferiors and feed food from above "today", Chinese regards Africans as inferiors and exploit them like slaves as Brits used to do.
>>945 If that feature is unique to your board, then that's great. And the gif image of the girl turning around the long green onion is one of the thumbnails where the feature is adopted, right? Sometimes I feel I can't communicate well with ya.
Well, lolies comversation is out of date. You should recognize what has been going on here.
Come to think of it, possessing pedo photograph is still ok now in Japan, and attaching these kinds of photographes isn't also illegal as long as getting money.(I don't know exatly though). However, you should at least refrain from attaching those photos on places like here and exposing them to many people.
>>864 >>873 Really? I came across "double occupancy" when I browsed in a book shop ETS's official workbook (vol.2) for the TOEIC test...
>>898 Sorry, but this is the first time I have ever heard "Fahrenheit 451", not least because the range of my literary taste is formidably narrow.
The English books I have ever read are largely confined to those by George Orwell and by Paul Auster. The next book I'd like to try to read is "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, because some people say it is difficult for non-natives. The ultimate goal of my reading is to acquire sufficient knowledge and skills to read Thomas Pynchon' "Gravity Rainbow" and Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses".
As for "Animal Farm", the way the ever-diligent Boxer is sold to the knacker is exactly the way laid-off workers are driven into the abyss of brutal demise in our country -- a ubiquitous landscape in the Capitalist world.
>>909 松下奈緒's face's, you know, rather ... too big... (She is a beauty all the same.)
>>899 Good taste my friend. Haven't read "Brave New World" though. But from what you've said it reminds me of the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. >>954 "The Satanic Verses" is supposed to be very good. That's another book on my list to read. Now that I'm done with my college applications I may finally get the chance to do some reading...
>>957 Don't you read any books that is on NY times best seller list. Such as Shidney Sheldon, John Grisham, Steven King...
I heard that Shidney Sheldon's novels are something that stupid housewives read. But they're very popular among Japanese English learners because their stories develop fast and keep readers in suspense. Actually, They're real page turners.
>>958 Sure. Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. Although I don't blindly read books just because they're on the NY Times bestsellers list. For years I've been mostly interested in science fiction books and the peculiar works of Stephen King mesmerized me. I can appreciate any book though, no matter its genre. I just tend to like to read what I'm accustomed to when I have free time. Almost all the books I've mentioned here so far I've had to read for an English class. I'm guess I'm just lucky enough that I've liked most of my required reading ("The Great Gatsby" and "The Catcher in the Rye" being my two favorites).
>>959 tell me about it! it is a good feature right???? /* case 1 : if(function_exists("ImageCreateFromGIF")){ $im_in = @ImageCreateFromGIF($fname); if($im_in){break;} } if(!is_executable(realpath("./gif2png"))||!function_exists("ImageCreateFromPNG"))return; @exec(realpath("./gif2png")." $fname",$a); if(!file_exists($path.$tim.'.png'))return; $im_in = @ImageCreateFromPNG($path.$tim.'.png'); unlink($path.$tim.'.png'); if(!$im_in)return; break;*//*disabled because this is not 1337*/
all i did was disable the thumbnail maker and messed with the thumbnail maker and placer
Nothing particular. I wasn't even conscious about the fact that today is the end of the year. I may go to the nearby shrine and then make a New Year's resolution with drinking a cup of 'amazake'.
>>966 It all depends on how the code is used. For example, >>965's line could be used to insert it into a database, identifying each and every poster (though $REMOTE_ADDR is usually used to get just the IP address - gethostbyaddr can be used to get the host later). In most BBS or forum systems, only the administrators are permitted to view this information.
I hope next thread will be made up on a section called dejima. There're only roman characters in posting, besides any japanese characters are prohibited because of that section is running on particular function of 2ch. Currently it's good way for english learners. Anyway That'll be not to take any notice of it.
>>964 If you post a comment in a blog, the writer in the blog can know you IP address, too. As イギリス人 says, if you post a comment in a froum=BBS, its administrator can know your IP address, too.
2ch's admnistrator didn't record IP addresses but he began to record all IP addresses at some point in the past.
>>978 I heard that one's IP address is changing constantly, and if so, recording someone's IP address is only a waste of time and has no meanings. If IP address never changes, administrators can identify him or her literally ? BTW, 2ch's administrator is Hiro○uki, isn't it? He should pay money as soon as possible.
and yes, I recognized my mistake on reading the post displayed on here. This is my bad habit. Anyway, thank you. I identified you!
>>989 You are supposed to experience the simiar thing as 'densha' at least one time because you has become a 2ch user. Everyone here has also experienced it.
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