Re: Japanese learning, is anybody as frustrated as me?

From: Brandon Berg (bberg_at_cesmale.net)
Date: 11/25/04


Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:21:34 -0800


<jim_breen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:30lbdaF2uivkfU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> dixit:
>
>>What good is making friends in France? They'll just teach you how to
>>have really bad body odor.
>
> It took a while, but it's plain that the memory of who really
> won the War of Independence for you has completely faded.

No more so than the memory of against whom the Americans were fighting. It's
just that it's not entirely clear why people living today deserve any credit
or blame for the actions of men who died a century before they were born,
just because they happen to live in the same country.

-- 
Brandon Berg
Fix the obvious homonym substitution to reply. 


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