----- Original Message -----
From: Rieks W. Torringa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 21:25
Subject: Re: Why this discussion again!!
> Laurens wrote:
> >want to know him), no-one of them bothers to translate to English, or
> >release English software (Moonlight Saga?). They don't bother about Europe
> >either! A change in attitude should come from both sides. And some Japanese
> >people subscribing to this list is a good first step I think.
>
> It's easy to say things like that, but most Japanese can't speak/write a
> word English and find it very difficult to read/understand English. I think
> you are underestimating that factor.
That is sortof weird, since a lot of japanese words are in katakana. Which
is actually a sort of spin-off from english words. But I don't need to tell that
to somebody studying japanese ;)
But I still think it's kinda weird that a lot of japanese ppl don't read/write
english. Just MHO...
Patsie
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