Classesssss
Some of you have asked why it is that I almost never talk about classes here.
Part of it is that what we're studying really doesn't make any sense unless you can read Japanese and have a fairly thorough background in Japanese grammar. I'm not out to give grammar lessons - though that's not to say I won't ever post language-related stuff. I intend to, but not until I find something truly useful that I understand well enough to talk about at length.
So I could talk about what I'm learning in classes, but it would look something like this:
Today, we learned about some of the various uses of ということだ and わけにはいかない. ということだ is similar in meaning to だそうです, except it also serves double-duty functioning as a more distant-sounding つまり.
Anyway who can understand that will already know what I'm talking about, or will have had to look up every word, and then make the connections from there. Probably with some sort of paper in there somewhere.
In any case, that would just be boring.
So that aside, I can just say something like:
Classes are going like they usually do, which is to say that they are usually boring with interesting bits scattered around about once a day.
Which would also get old quick. So if you ever feel like asking me how classes are going, you can feel free to point yourself to that. There's a 99% chance that's how classes are going.
Oh, and here's some Dilbert. The post needed a picture.
Part of it is that what we're studying really doesn't make any sense unless you can read Japanese and have a fairly thorough background in Japanese grammar. I'm not out to give grammar lessons - though that's not to say I won't ever post language-related stuff. I intend to, but not until I find something truly useful that I understand well enough to talk about at length.
So I could talk about what I'm learning in classes, but it would look something like this:
Today, we learned about some of the various uses of ということだ and わけにはいかない. ということだ is similar in meaning to だそうです, except it also serves double-duty functioning as a more distant-sounding つまり.
Anyway who can understand that will already know what I'm talking about, or will have had to look up every word, and then make the connections from there. Probably with some sort of paper in there somewhere.
In any case, that would just be boring.
So that aside, I can just say something like:
Classes are going like they usually do, which is to say that they are usually boring with interesting bits scattered around about once a day.
Which would also get old quick. So if you ever feel like asking me how classes are going, you can feel free to point yourself to that. There's a 99% chance that's how classes are going.
Oh, and here's some Dilbert. The post needed a picture.
posted by William at
6/11/2008 07:03:00 AM
6 Comments:
Well, that was a classy post.
So..I can't get any archive weeks after 4/27 to work.
Know what is up with that? Since I can't use the actual blog URL given on your profile as a replacement, since it just redirects, it would be nice to read all of them.
Do you have to set up redirects by hand?
That's weird. Blogger does all that automatically. I mean, in theory.
Changing anything by hand is a pain.
Every once in awhile, Blogger just acts snitty for no apparent reason. Washii, you might just try it again unless it has been doing that for awhile.
I checked to make sure it was working for me as a test, and it is, so you might try again. Good luck!
That's weird, 'cause it doesn't work for me. All the archive links after the end of April (maybe May?) are broken. But it's all automatically generated, so there's nothing I can do about it.
hmmm. They are broken for me now. I misunderstood and thought you meant the previous ones to that, not the ones AFTER...even though you said AFTER. Oops. That really is weird.
I hope they come back!
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