Re: Let's learn some Japanese...BAKA! I love Dir en grey!

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:19:59 GMT

"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
news:2nfmb0FdsinU1@uni-berlin.de...
> This article was on the front page of the world's greatest newspaper
today:
> http://tinyurl.com/5bu5l
> "When Yuki Sasaki began working in the Japanese-language program at the
> University of Georgia in 1995, most students were international business
> majors interested in studying things like polite Japanese expressions
> and the ins and outs of Japanese business-card exchange.
>
> Nine years later, Ms. Sasaki says her students are a different sort.
> They ask for help in translating Japanese pop-song lyrics and talk
> excitedly about the Japanese cartoon character Card Captor Sakura. And
> they blurt out colloquial Japanese expressions, like baka! (stupid),
> that they have learned from comics."
>
> Who the hell is Card Captor Sakura? There was a color picture of him/her
> accompanying the article. He/she was wielding a staff, so I guess that
> helps to capture cards.

I saw that article. Charles must be having a bad day today...

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