No problem. Just thought I’d share my thoughts on this year. Wish a good ‘09 to all.

That was an awesome poem! Thanks, Sean!

Thanks? What’d you do? Print it out? Lol. Just having a go.

You’re welcome.

No, I didn’t print it…I just saved it. 

What? I liked it! 

Your picture shows a very lovable person, Courtney, or Lovable Courtney.  Are you the same person? Clone?
While both are newbies, above,  one has two posts, the other 15, or are you just doing that to
  1) confuse Sean
  2) surround him???

Sean:
  Dont’ know what to say about your picture, but I watch too much Law and Order and CSI’s to make much comment.  But then I don’t have any picture on
my profile.

Yea, I’m the same person. It wouldn’t let me change my avatar on the other account. It kept showing the same picture even though I was trying to upload something different. So I made a new one.

Gee, what a quick response.  I found the answer on another thread: would not let you put on a new avatar.
When you have any problem here to to the wonderful person who puts the new words on the Word Of The Day, Vikki, she helps me out all the time,
especially since I am really relative new to computer use.  She is great, and I have most of her messages to me saved.  Send her a PM and she
will bail you out of any situation.

Thanks for the advice.

Sean Matsuko - 25 December 2008 10:41 AM

あなたの日本人はよいのbandito。 教師か。
(Your Japanese is good, bandito. Teacher?)

1.　あなた　= anata which can only be the polite hiragana spelling of generic pronominal form　きみ　kimi “you”

2.　の　= no enclitic particle denoting possession:　あなたの　anata no which means “you · POS” ergo “your”

3.　日本人　= nihonjin meaning in elaborate kanji orthography “Japanese (people)” though perhaps really intended here to be　日本語　nihongo “Japanese (language)” v. supra

4.　は　= ha when just one isolated hiragana character, but here serving rather as Japanese topic marker wa only without peremptory translation thereof.

[v. my complete post further down infra]

All I got, is the part about the wages aren’t enough. Truer words never spoken, in English nor Japanese.
Coming from a teacher, here.

No offence, of course!

I’ve been looking into becoming a teacher myself.

With respect to official Japanese language, it’s not so much the spoken idiom as four writing systems which consternate me and everyone else:

1.  kanji = “Chinese characters” so often found in convoluted Japanese script—all totalling 1,945 of them:

     日本人　= nihonjin “Japanese people”

2.  hiragana = phonetic kana syllabary used mostly to “fill out” literary text and likewise to represent particles, inflectional endings etc.:

     あなたの　= anata no “you · POS” ergo “your”

3.  katakana = more expedient kana script used primarily in corporate advertising and to spell out numerous foreign words:

     ショーン　= Shōn “Sean”

4.  Romaji = Western or “Roman” alphabet used chiefly to write out foreign names & all native Japanese vocabulary if necessary:

     bandito = modern Spanish user name, although I have yet to explain Mr. Matsuko’s unusual choice of bold face type.

♥Courtney♥ - 02 January 2009 01:18 PM

I’ve been looking into becoming a teacher myself.

Really?