Re: "A fake form of old-fashioned Japanese speech supposed to represent the old style of the language is used."

From: Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:49:24 -1000

Louise Bremner wrote:

Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

As it happens, I didn't understand that phrase until I saw the official
Japanese translation....

Yes, but you live on the other side of the pond, like my grandsons, where they speak a funny kind of English.

Bart
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