Jed sez:
... > In Japan people are also biased against regional and rural dialects, > which are rapidly disappearing. This may impact my retirement plans > for when I am 90, blind and wheelchair bound. I hope to spend my > remaining days ensconced in the back room of some seedy bar or house > of prostitution in Kyoto where I can listen to the way the women talk. It > doesn't matter what they say: I just can't get enough of that rising > intonation, the negative (-hen) and those copulas. Hubba hubba! > > My wife is from Yamaguchi, which is quite different from Kyoto. It > is similar to Appalachian English, with words hundreds of years out > of date, like the English "yonder." Sounds like a well planned retirement strategy, Jed. Just don't let your wife catch you listening in. ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
