Re: "A fake form of old-fashioned Japanese speech supposed to represent the old style of the language is used."
- From: Richard VanHouten <richvh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:49:59 GMT
Zhen Lin wrote:
aesthete8@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
It's something I've always suspected, but since my Japanese is not very
good, I was never certain.
Well, it is to be expected. After all, we can barely understand
Shakespeare as it is written, let alone as it is pronounced.
Which reminds me that it has probably been several years since I last
mentioned here my old experiment of throwing "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore
art thou Romeo?" as a zero-point bonus English-to-Japanese translation
problem in third-year (mostly graduate students) Japanese quizzes.
But probably not long enough yet to do it again.
Bart
I by no means would place myself so high as a third year student in
skill, but how is this?
ロミオ、ロミオ、どうしてあなたの名前はロミオでなくちゃかな
(Put in plain form, since it's a soliloquoy.)
Now I'm off to Google Groups to try and find your earlier reports.
.
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