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.
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