X-Received: by 2002:a37:7e03:: with SMTP id z3mr16236967qkc.367.1619984337987; Sun, 02 May 2021 12:38:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a37:6410:: with SMTP id y16mr13776697qkb.463.1619984337760; Sun, 02 May 2021 12:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: news.ccsf.jp!news.tomockey.net!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 12:38:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <89094c9f-af7f-4ba0-840c-43208efc2c33n@googlegroups.com> Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=240b:c010:410:d7cb:e8d3:9663:9927:b475; posting-account=infE4gkAAACuR3OeHpM7aqR7OTXEhLLQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 240b:c010:410:d7cb:e8d3:9663:9927:b475 References: <89094c9f-af7f-4ba0-840c-43208efc2c33n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6e397b8e-edad-42a6-b55d-b6ab682ad578n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Where are all the bickering gods of the past? From: "shannon...@gmail.com" Injection-Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 19:38:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 21 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170858 On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 11:23:59 PM UTC+9, Jasper wrote: > Hey,=20 >=20 > Professor Bass, Breen, Cormier, TT, cindy, Jacobs, Bremner, myaw, Robson,= Webster, W, Matsuda, the Onion, gary, cumminsky, Raynolds, Takabayashi And= the rest of you! Are you alive? (I don't think so.)=20 >=20 > Please respond if you are still breathing.=20 >=20 > P.S.=20 > Professor, now that we have a good translator, you can speak Japanese lik= e a native Japanese speaker. Forgot to say that I should certainly not be regarded as any sort of gawd, = but my unfortunate guess would be that some of them are no longer with us. = Most of them have probably wandered elsewhere on the Web. Most interesting Japanese language topic of the day would probably be Izumi= Kyoka. Reading a new translation, but I also got an annotated version of t= he Japanese. Turns out my wife studied him in her salad days, but he's a se= rious challenge to the translator. "...my finances have gone south" turned = out to come from an obscure Japanese idiom about a northern mountain.