Re: japanese language websites

From: Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson (ken_nicolson_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:19:19 +0900

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 02:10:52 GMT, Bart Mathias
<bartmathias@verizon.net> wrote:

>Amazing they can understand each other! Now throw in someone speaking
>Kyoto-ben or Koube-ben and you'd have Babylon all over again, I bet!

Sort-of connected, last week on TV (Kin-SMAP) they had a Kyoto maiko
-> geisha -> maiko who was speaking posh Kyoto-ben (or something) with
a very (to me) affected accent. It was really odd to me hearing all
the 〜ヘん endings in the middle of 敬語, with an NHK-type enunciation
on top! I think she would have had all the HLLHLers on this group
pulling their hair out.

Ken