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- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:57:59 +0900
- From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [Lingo] Conservatism (was: So happy I cried... )
- References: <479E38FA.9000504@sonic.net> <8763xdcc2g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1201626487.2526.1233928257@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87y7a8b2x3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1201745829.6280.1234235901@webmail.messagingengine.com>
David J Iannucci writes: > > > > Depends on who you ask. If you ask a real linguist they'll say > > > > yes. > > > > > > I'm a real linguist and actually we don't care :-) > > > > That's what I mean by a real linguist will say they're all valid. > > Well, ok, but in that case you could just as well have replaced > "linguist" with "bus driver" or "architect" :-) No, because the real linguist knows why she doesn't care. Those other guys just plain don't care period. ;-) I agree, in practice it doesn't matter ... unless you're trying to explain kokugo to gaijin. Which is what we're doing here. Ain't we? > I could agree to a certain extent up till the 20th century or so > (maybe Kantou Daishinsai, 1923), but I find it hard to imagine that > anyone is making decisions like this in the post-WWII era. Actually, my understanding is that that anti-invasion maze consideration was explicit in the rebuilding of Tokyo after the war; they were really worried (with good reason) about the Soviets, you know. (Not like the Russians who replaced the Soviets are so much more reassuring, but at least they're a little less willing to sacrifice consumption for arms.) > In that sense there's a conservatism at work, for sure (the sort > that is not at all unique to Japan). Well, no, I don't think that Kobe was just an issue of familiarity. That was an anticommons problem (aka "too many vetos spoil the borscht").[1] The inability to get anything resembling a public act together while still managing to have a pretty darn comfortable and equitable society is probably unique to modern-day Japan in all history. Unfortunately, that consensus is going to go to hell in a handbasket. > As long as everything is moving along smoothly, everyone's happy. You mean like the Shuto Expwy at 8:15am? :-) > This is fascinating, if it indeed reflects a conscious design. How > old is the campus? (guess I could just look on Wikipedia... why > ever ask anyone a question ever again, eh :-) Tsukuba-dai was planned in the late 1960s, opened in 1974. Footnotes: [1] Oh, Josh, do I owe you another monitor? Sorry! ... not.
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