Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan (was: UNIX jobs on TLUG)

[JC Helary <brandelune@example.com>]

> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> > You cannot speak Japanese
> > properly to a person unless you know the standing of both in the
> > social total order, and gaijin are, well, gaijin.


I like this comment because it is only partly wrong. What it says is  
that speaking fluently means being socially fluent. And _that_ takes  
more than time and study and conversations with learned (or not)  
Japanese. It requires plenty of _social_ interaction with a huge lot  
of trial/error.





Jean-Christophe Helary