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From: brown@VDRL.SRC.MEI.CO.JP
Subject: Misunderstanding?  (Re+ Eng->Jap Dictionary)
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:24:35 GMT

Peter,

From your message I'm assuming you were looking for a Kanji and Kana guide:

   >>From: Peter McColgan <P.McColgan@FRPR.BULL.FR>:
   >>
   >>In response to Gary Brown's posting, the Hadamitzky and Spahn
   >>dictionary I had in mind is not the "KANJI & KANA" guide, but
   >>a full blown Japanese->English dictionary.
   >>
   >>regards from somewhat overcast Paris
   >>
   >>Peter

The Hadamitzky and Spahn book, "Kanji & Kana" is NOT (and I repeat NOT)
a Japanese-English Dictionary (called a 'waejiten').  J-E Dictionaries
usually have hiragana entries with definitions that include the word
in kanji (if it's usually written in kanji), and the English definition
and other similar phrases in Japanese.

The book "Kanji and Kana" is a kanji dictionary, a sort of handbook, with
only kanji and their crude definitions (and some examples of words using them).
It's not really supposed to be used as a dictionary, especially because
looking up a word like "jiyuuminshutou" (Japan's LDP) would take forever.

I hope I've clarified what I consider to be the differences between the
purpose of a kanji dictionary and that of an ewajiten.  (Another superb
kanji dictionary, or handbook, is Nelson's "Japanese Character Dictionary",
2nd Ed. I think)

Regards from a hot and sultry Osaka!

	Gary
From: ccloretta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: How to apologize correctly?
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:07:34 AEST
Organization: University Of Queensland

What is the difference between the following ways of apologizing:

sumimasen ga
shitsurei itashimashita
gomen nasai

I usually think of sumimasen ga as "excuse me, but", and shitsurei
itashimashita as "please excuse me", but am unsure where gomen nasai should be
used

Am I on the right track - if not could someone please explain the differences
to me.

Thanks in advance,
Loretta...
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: mathias@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Gerald B. Mathias)
Subject: Borrowed account
Summary: Then who is David Luke?
Keywords: azana, gimei
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:55:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.203345.29659@u.washington.edu> yoichi@milton.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:

>rto051@hippo.sps.mot.com (Chang Suk-Kyung) writes:
>>Was this a Zen story?    ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^

David, it looks like you've got yourself stuck with a nick-name for sure now.
Or Mx. Chang is getting credit for all your publications.


Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Subject: Re: nai desu
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
	<1992Jul20.180051.18128@news.Hawaii.Edu>
	<1992Jul20.233732.21951@nevada.edu>
	<1992Jul21.144451.20103@u.washington.edu>
	<1992Jul22.185323.24492@news.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:02:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.185323.24492@news.Hawaii.Edu> mathias@uhunix.uhcc.
Hawaii.Edu (Gerald B. Mathias) writes:

>As I recall, it started with someone suggesting it was perhaps odd that people
>often say `nai desu' when there is the perfectly good word `arimasen.'
>'Nai desu' should be wrong; `nai' is an "i" adjective (keiyo^shi), and
>copulas don't come after adjectives--one doesn't say *`nai da' or *`oishii da'
>etc.  But `desu' is a form of the copula, so how can one say `nai desu'?


  I believe Samuel Martin says somewhere that e.g. "takai desu" was originally
a contraction of "takai no desu", and was long considered sloppy and/or
ungrammatical, although it is now perfectly standard grammar.
From: tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: OTAKU
Date: 26 Jul 92 09:48:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Someone mentioned that the word "OTAKU" ("you" OR "fanboy/nerd" as a
slang) has a feminine flavor. This is very different from my 
understanding of the word "otaku". Can anyone give me an insight on this?

Thank you in advance.



Tonghyun "Vajra" Kim
tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: mathias@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Gerald B. Mathias)
Subject: Re: kanji of the day #23
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:13:31 GMT

Excuse me, I meant to say "2-3-1" to "1-2-3," i.e.:

               3  1xxxxxxxxx
               X           X
               X           X
               X  2xxxxxxxxX
               X
               X
               K
               P
              /
From: ccavers@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Cam Cavers)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: (none)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 19:16:34 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

klatta@MERIT.EDU writes:

> >Victor--I hate to have to tell you this, and this is just my opinion,
> >but I think the Japanese are very racist.
>
> Well, the term racist has maybe a little more baggage than I'd like.
> Maybe ethnocentric would be better. Most Asians have a cultural value

That's a very good thing to mention...I've heard a lot of people say the
Japanese are racist, and something always bugged me about that... the KKK are
racist; I don't see how you can compare the Japanese people to that. On one
hand, the KKK (and a lot of other white supremicists) will tend to blame others
for their problems, as opposed to the Japanese, who will go out an DO SOMETHING
about it...like build a billion good cars...:)


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From: oi@kocb.astem.or.jp (Hitoshi Oi)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: arigato gozaimasu != thanks in advance ? (Re: inexpensive accomodations near Sophia U.)
Date: 26 Jul 92 06:54:54 GMT
Organization: Kubota, Kyoto Office of Computer Business
In-reply-to: robert@ahi.pbrc.hawaii.edu's message of 26 Jul 92 04:51:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.045157.1157@news.Hawaii.Edu> robert@ahi.pbrc.hawaii.edu writes:
>Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu !

	I have seen Non Japanese speakers added this sentence after their
articles many times, but this seems strange (at least to me).

Do they want to mean "thanks in addvance" ? Usually, we say "yoroshiku onegai
shimasu" for this meaning...
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Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: robert@ahi.pbrc.hawaii.edu (Lopaka)
Subject: Re: arigato gozaimasu != thanks in advance ? (Re: inexpensive accomodations near Sophia U.)
Organization: Bekesy Laboratory, University of Hawaii
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:22:27 GMT

In article <OI.92Jul26155454@tlh.kocb.astem.or.jp> oi@kocb.astem.or.jp (Hitoshi Oi) writes:
>In article <1992Jul26.045157.1157@news.Hawaii.Edu> robert@ahi.pbrc.hawaii.edu writes:
>>Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu !
>
>	I have seen Non Japanese speakers added this sentence after their
>articles many times, but this seems strange (at least to me).
>
>Do they want to mean "thanks in addvance" ? Usually, we say "yoroshiku onegai
>shimasu" for this meaning...
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>Email:	oi@kocb.astem.or.jp	Phone:	(075)315-8626	FAX:	(075)315-6517

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu--for helping me out on this point.  Yes, I
did mean "Thanks in advance".
Mahalo (Thanks in Hawaiian) in the present and the past,
Robert
robert@ahi.pbrc.hawaii
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Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: tozaki@math.keio.ac.jp (Hidekazu TOZAKI)
Subject: Re: kanji of the day #21
Organization: Faculty of Sci. and Tech., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 10:57:49 GMT

In article <9207230921.AA24842@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE writes:
 |(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

This time, the stroke order is 1-3-4-5-2-6-7-...

 |When you learn Japanese, the worst thing you might do is starting to
 |read the GENJI NO MONOGATARI.
                 ^^
Usually, we don't have this "no", just "Genji Monogatari".
--
Hidekazu TOZAKI
Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
E-mail: tozaki@nak.math.keio.ac.jp
From: herb@sybase.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: PC Software for Teaching Japanese
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:08:04 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.


There is a marvelous package called Power Japanese that runs on
Windows.  It uses multimedia capabilities, including sound. The
package lists for around $300 and includes some hardware for the
sound component.  

The distributor is Bayware and their phone number is 408-749-1326.
They are located in the San Francisco bay area.

Hope this helps.

Herb Lison
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: schulman@MADMAX.HRL.HAC.COM
Subject: Re: Japanese emphasis MBA info sought (plus a dic. reference)
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:36:53 GMT

I think the Lauder Institute of the Wharton Business school
of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has a
good international program including Japan.

Address:

256 South 37th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: SHERWOO@mitvma.mit.EDU (sue)
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:41:08 GMT

I beg to differ. I lived in Japan for 26 years, and I saw a great
deal of ugly stuff. As for the immigration regulations, they may
be out of date. I'd appreciate an update.
From: claude@TRC.MEW.MEI.CO.JP (Claude Huss)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Japan : A Golden Cage
Date: 27 Jul 92 05:25:48 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

> 	Japan : A Golden Cage  (by Luis Canales)
>
> 	"Teaching English in Japan is sheer agony", declared a Scotsman I
> once met in the train between Kyoto and Osaka. Nevertheless, he understood
> that his job was secure and the pay was rather good. Furthermore, he thought
> Japan was a safe place to live in when compared to many troubled nations.
> In his words, Japan is a Golden Cage where people find themselves trapped
> by security and materialism.
> 	I believe that for most Japanese happiness in the Golden Cage is
> the power of easy acquisition. Although Japan is a rich country, most
> Japanese are not; nevertheless, the handy access to loans, buying on
> credit, plus two bonuses a year give them the illusion that they are
> rich. Since Japaneses houses and apartments are uncomfortable by Western
> standards, working hours long and a two-week vacation an impossible dream,
> a happy life in the Golden Cage is then based on acquisition and safety.
> 	For author Willian Corr, the life of a Japanese businessman has no
> golden shades. "I don't like to say this but I often feel that the life of
> a Japanese employee would drive me to despair or suicide". As far as a happy
> childhood is concerned, children here cannot dream of an "open sesame" due to
> constant pressure of studying for entrance exams into supposedly more
> prestigious schools. As for Japanese women, they are still kept a step
> below in the chauvinistic scale of a predominantly male society. Despite
> these and other social maladies, Japan has emerged as a successful nation
> and her people apparently live in peace and contentment.
> 	Foreigners holding secure positions in Japan have a lifestyle
> drastically different from the Japanese; they are like exotic birds with
> very little responsability. In the educational field, professors do not
> have to worry with extra-curricular activities because the Japanese keep
> foreign faculty members out to avoid clashes between the forces of modern,
> practical ideas and traditional ones. The same can be be said of other
> positions held by foreigners for the Japanese do their best to keep
> e'migre's out of the inner circles. Aliens here belong to a Celebrity
> Zoo!
> 	Certainly, the Golden Cage keeps its doors open for those who
> want to fly home for good. However, where is home after one has spent
> 10 or 20 years in a foster land? On the other hand, aliens who enjoy the
> overprotection in Japan may find themselves trapped into leading a non-
> adventurous life that eventually destroys their spirit.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: AENIX@UMSVM.BITNET (jerry vincent nix)
Subject: Re: Scholarships
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:59:13 GMT

Anil, sorry I couldn't answer your personal question asbout Japanese programs,
but I have a suggestion for your friend Mike. As you suggested mombusho is a gr
eat place to look. In addition to that, Rotary International offers 15 scholars
hips yearly. Information can be obtained from your local Rotary club. Some Japa
nese language is required, but they also pay for training if you need it. They
cover most all expenses for up to 18 months. Tell your friend "Gambatte Kudasai
"
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: mibaraki@cgribm.UWaterloo.ca (Motomu Ibaraki x5068)
Subject: Japanese LaTeX for PC98
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:38:36 GMT

I would like to install a Japanese LaTeX on my PC9801(NEC).
Does anyone know the software's names and ftp site?
If possible I would like to get executable version.

thank you


    Motomu Ibaraki

  mibaraki@cgribm.UWaterloo.ca
From: P.McColgan@FRPR.BULL.FR (Peter McColgan)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re:  English->Kanji/hiragana/katakana dictionary sought
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:20:45 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Thank you very much to everyone who E-mailed or posted
regarding dictionaries.  I now know what I need to get.

In response to Gary Brown's posting, the Hadamitzky and Spahn
dictionary I had in mind is not the "KANJI & KANA" guide, but
a full blown Japanese->English dictionary.  I do not have the
reference with me, but will post it tomorrow if no-one does
it before then.

regards from somewhat overcast Paris

Peter
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: How to apologize correctly?
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:36:46 GMT

In article <Jul28.064759.28907@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ntetsuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Nishimura) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.140735.15876@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au> ccloretta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au writes:
>>What is the difference between the following ways of apologizing:
>>
>>sumimasen ga
>>shitsurei itashimashita
>>gomen nasai
>>
>Sumimasen ga
>		sumimasen ga, ima naNji de shou ka.
>		excuse me, but, do you have the time?
>
>Shitsurei itashimashita
>	This will be used when you have done what you think embarrassing to the 
>	addressee.  Besides this expression is much politer way of saying 
>	"shitsurei shimashita."
>
>		A: Tanaka-san, o-geNki deshi ta ka.
>		B: Ha?  Hito-chigai de wa?
>		A: A, shitsurei shimashita.
>
>Gomen nasai
>	This is one of the less plolite forms of "shitsurei shimashita."  With
>	this you are actually appologizing for something you have done wrong.
>
>		A: Omae ka!! Ore no sushi made tabeta no wa!!
>		B: Gomen nasai!  Datte, onaka ga suite itaNda moN...
>
>Anyway you could use the expressions to :
>	Sumimasen ga		any people
>				(your friends may feel your being unfriendly)
>				when you want to ask for something
>
>	Shitsurei itashimashita	
>				any people especially to the elder or superior 
>				when you have made a mistake or have done 
>				something wrong
>	
>	Gomen nasai		your peers or to your family members
>				you CAN'T say this to school principle unless
>				you are an elementary school kid :)
>
>These are just some of the basic uses of the expressions.  You will be exposed 
>to many other usages.

Good explanation. There is one other form of apology;

moushiwake gozaimasen.

This is for when you've really screwed up (you were really late, you failed to 
do something you promised, you were caught red-handed at something, etc).

It is also used in very polite occasions, such as a store being out of some
item you particularly desire. The clerk/store owner/chef, etc, will sometimes
apologize with this phrase.

Mike
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From: AWILLIAMS@VAX2.LUTON.AC.UK (ANDI WILLIAMS)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: English->Kanji/hiragana/katakana dictionary sought
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Patrick asks:

>Can you send me the ISBN or equivalent from those two dictionaries,
>the Kenkyusha Furigana E->J and the Spahn-Hadamitsky J->E?  I'm
>currently using a Vaccari E->J I bought 20 years ago when in the Navy,
>and I've never been satisfied with it, but Kinokuniya in San Francisco
>hasn't had anything better.  All their E->J are for Japanese, with all
>the explanations and examples in Japanese, and no furigana.  Maybe I
>can get them to order for me, if the price is "reasonable" :-(.
>Thanks.

Sure Patrick -

The ISBN is        4767411726
The title is       Kenku-Sha's Furigana English-Japanese Dictionar
The Publisher is   Kenkyu-Sha, Japan
Publication date   Apr 91
Price (in UK)      25 pounds (usually the price in $ is the same (most unfair))
Availability       in print

Source of info'    Whittaker's Bookbank

- Andi Williams
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: rjh1@FORTH.STIRLING.AC.UK (Mr Richard J Harrison)
Subject: Mac Powerbooks/Japanese systems
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:12:49 GMT

system 7.0.1 runs on the powerbook 140 fine, I haven't tried it with
the 100 but can't see why it won't run.... (sys 7 with GOmtalk of
course...)


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From: ccavers@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Cam Cavers)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: (none)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 20:02:03 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:

>
> Or invade a continent or bomb a military installation.
>
> It may be pointed out that the ordinary Japanese citizenry went about killing
> innocent people of Korean descent living in Japan after the kanto earthquake
> (a rumor started that "they" were poisoning the ground water wells).

Hmmmm...it also may be pointed out that the earthquake happened half a century
ago...long before most countries on this continent even let blacks and whites
eat in the same establishment. I'm not saying that the Japanese people (this is
a generalization, nothing personal implied) are the most racially open society.
I am saying that racism, as practiced by the KKK, Neo-Nazi's, etc., is not the
same as the discrimination practiced by the Japanese.

Does anyone think the Japanese attitude toward other cultures is changing,
though? The young generation travels to other countries a lot, and I'm
wondering if they have a different attitude than the current controlling
generation. Certainly, some of the Japanese people I have encountered seem
quite enthusiastic about foreign ideas and culture...


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From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Sneezing
Date: 26 Jul 92 22:04:19 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

> 
> And how about "achiii"? (from atsui?)
> 
> I got so used to achiii, I can't remember what I used to say!-)
> 
> Peter

I know exactly how you feel.  My wife often asks me things like how do
you say _ara_ when you're surprised or this or that and _I can't
answer_!  Oh no, I've forgotten how to feel American! -)  Maybe I need to go
watch Diehard or RamboIII a couple times and I'll remember... -);


-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

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Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: cmr@WORLD.STD.COM ("Charles Richmond, I.I.S. Corp.,              723-7695", 617)
Subject: Re: Question
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05: 36:46 TZONE
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:37:16 GMT

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1992, 23-Jul-1992 1710 wrote:

> Hey, I've read some stuff about future tense, and present tense, and past
> tense, but what happens when two or more tenses have the same meaning?
>
> For example, "asu" means tomorrow, right?  And "ashita" also means tomorrow.
> So, what about "ashiteru"?  Does that also mean tomorrow?
>
> Please answer today, 'cause I can't figure out what my girlfriend said her
> plans were for tonight and tomorrow.
>
> -- Norman Diamond     diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
>


Were you joking??????

aishiteru means "I love you"!  If thats what she said, she may change her
mind if you do not respond properly !!!  Women can be touchy *G*R*I*N*!

Charlie
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: juengst@BOSS1.PHYSIK.UNI-BONN.DE ("Henry G. Juengst")
Subject: Re:  PC Software for Teaching Japanese
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:23:19 GMT

In article <9207211332.AA01109@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, you write:
> Please unsubscribe me from the list!
> <FWG@NIHCU.BITNET> (I have requested this 4 times with no success)

May be

SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE

helps.

Henry
From: rto051@hippo.sps.mot.com (Chang Suk-Kyung)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: OTAKU
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:19:56 GMT
Organization: TDO

In article <1992Jul27.071444.21631@uwm.edu> circuit@convex.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <36166@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, by tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim):
>> Someone mentioned that the word "OTAKU" ("you" OR "fanboy/nerd" as a
>> slang) has a feminine flavor. This is very different from my 
>> understanding of the word "otaku". Can anyone give me an insight on this?
>
>	OTAKU I believe really means home, house, residence. And Otaku
>used in slang as Computer-Otaku, Techno-Otaku, Manga-Otaku etc etc..
>Probably refers to that fact that that's all these people do. IN other
>words stay HOME and do their hobby all the time. 
>
>
>	Anybody want to elaborate...

The reason "otaku" sounds feminine is that it is a word used mostly
by women (at least in the standard meaning, "your household" or "you").
Excessive use of it (except to, say, other anime fans that understand
your usage of it) will make you sound like an okusan.
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