You know Japan affected you for good when...
- You watch a Japanese film with friends and can’t understand why they find it so strange.
- You get incredibly defensive when someone says “I thought you said Japanese was complicated, but now you tell me that just one word is used for all these situations?” (はい, or ‘hai’, is the general affirmative, and means far more than just yes).
- You find time in a busy shopping trip to go out of your way to search the Asian supermarket for Japanese food.
- You get distracted in the Asian supermarket and spend ten minutes translating packaging, only to find that everything is also in English.
- You start flicking through a booklet starting from the back, and it takes you over a minute to figure out why the pages seem to be in an illogical order.
Matthew @ 13:33, August 4, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (1)
Comments:
John
…はい,or “hai” is the general affirmative, and means much more than just yes…
like “no”
Comment added at 14:31, August 8, 2006
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