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Post by tamayori on Nov 16, 2005 14:46:01 GMT -5
Hmm..it seems my scribe had delayed my response-and now it makes no sense in following this thread,(esp after the part about jap language use) so i will delete what i have said. Ii yoh...(slang for "that's ok")
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Post by tamayori on Nov 17, 2005 4:45:04 GMT -5
As far as japanese language is concerned...yea, the japanese everyone learns is known as "tokyo-ese", because it's like the modern type used in the tokyo area.
But like the US-there are different "dialects" depending on the province, and area of country. Modern japanese says "Arigato", but kyotoites say "O'kini". "Hai" is "hei".
Heheh tokyoites cannot understand those folks out in the "country" either-think of some guy from Brooklyn, New York trying to talk to a guy from North Carolina. They still are speaking english-but with diff territorial dialects.
Heheh-as far as history goes- we all don't speak Elizabethan prose nowadays either....even in the SCA our "forsoothliness" is a rough estimation of Olde Engylsh.
If I have some lad in passable japanese garb come up to me babbling away so proudly in japanese-I just smile behind my fan, and nod my head. (my japanese is really bad anyways, and i would only understand maybe every 3rd word...) while checking to see if his irei is placed left over right, and not the other way.(only the dead are dressed right over left)
Tho it still makes me flinch to hear japanese butchered...."Kah-tae-nah"...."tabby"....<snickers behind her sleeve>
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