From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 15 17:31:44 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E4pMm-0007ar-0J for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:31:44 -0700 Received: from smtp16.mail.bbt.yahoo.co.jp ([202.93.83.109]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E4pMe-0007aV-0o for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:31:43 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (servantodehomaro@60.236.206.9 with login) by smtp16.mail.bbt.yahoo.co.jp with SMTP; 16 Aug 2005 00:31:33 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:31:25 +0900 From: Servanto de Homaro To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Hello! In-Reply-To: <535730ee050814221117c205d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050813132329.EB51.SERVANTODEHOMARO@yahoo.co.jp> <535730ee050814221117c205d0@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20050816083026.B664.SERVANTODEHOMARO@yahoo.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 1730 X-Approved-By: ServantoDeHomaro@yahoo.co.jp X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: ServantoDeHomaro@yahoo.co.jp Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners coi .noras. (it's OK?) NK> You know, this shorter version of your name sounds like the English NK> name/month "June". Not sure if you intended for it to have that NK> association; I also probably wouldn't have brought it up if that NK> weren't my middle name. ^_^ But I was born in May... (^_^) NK> I find most of your English perfectly understandable, and, honestly, NK> quite entertaining, as few stiff and serious English speakers have NK> such colorful usage. ^_^ The closest thing I've ever used to an NK> expression like "educating" a database [understandable, but more NK> common usage would have you say "writing entries for" a NK> database/dictionary] has probably been "embezzling" pizza (rather than NK> eating it). I know my English is strange although I've learned English ten years (junior highschool: 3, senior highschool:3, university: 4), and almost all Japanese are much the same as me: we haven't mastered English at all. There are serious *problems* in the educational administration in Japan. (I'm not sure which word is the best --- "problem", "question", "affair", "matter", "issue"...) And many Japanese themselves have a greater problem: they are extremely afraid of their errors in English, they hesitate to speak in English, and they run away when a Gaijin (a foreigner) want to talk to them. But I'm not ashamed of my strange English because I'm not a native English-speaker; my English errors are unavoidable. And, IF MY ENGLISH WERE PERFECT, I WOULD NOT NEED LOJBAN! co'omi'e .djun. -- Servanto de Homaro __________________________________ Save the earth http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ondanka/