“Japanese for Nerds”
March 26th, 2004
K5 presents the first in a series: “Japanese for
Nerds”, which aims to build up a working conversational knowledge of
Japanese in semi-humorous, surprisingly useful constructive semantics. “At
some point in your study of Japanese, you will learn how to say ‘eat’ in
eight different ways. In the meantime, would you rather be able to
communicate or not?” (I’m particularly amused by the bizarrely
Yiddishesque examples that are generated by using nothing but the word
for negation: Q: “Got any cash?” A: “I’m not completely out.”)