Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: jim_breen@hotmail.com Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Asians have hijacked Japanese study Date: 2 Nov 2004 00:26:46 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2uo2i5F2ciqa5U1@uni-berlin.de> References: <41836fbb$0$25056$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <2uhcn9F2b4v8dU1@uni-berlin.de> <4184dfcb$0$24942$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <2ume9cF2ct67jU2@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de vIorwxMTu4K7fIKA+peXVA+s2zc0SD3yYRT5/ZOe40pzyRUnfo X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.18-27.7.x (i686)) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:20748 Apud B Robson (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus: >jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote: >> Apud B Robson (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus: >>>That would be even funnier if 15 Aborgines got off the bus. I might try >>>to organize that when I go home. >> >> I know a Japanese-speaking Aboriginal. She may well be the only one. >Send her over I'd love to introduce her as a real Australian (whatever >that means) She may be visiting the expo in Aichi next year as part of the Victorian govt contingent. >Do you know anything about Aboriginal languages? SFA. >I don't know enough >about linguistics to understand all the technical terms but I wonder >what forms it uses. Which ones? Most counts are around the 600 mark. >My original interest in Japanese was a sort of >applied linguistics, I was interested in how a very different language >worked. Most field-level lexicographers in Australia work in Aboriginal and/or Pacific island languages, so I occasionally bump into them. My main contact has been with helping a couple put together XML structures for recording things. I've never picked up more that a word or two, and know nothing of the language structures. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学