Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nntp.abs.net!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps84.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Subject: Re: International children From: Sean Holland Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Message-ID: References: <13aaccf7.0310162114.4ee5aae1@posting.google.com> <1g30nuz.1u2v3go11m8yqsN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <1g31hwa.7qkspe1aly2rkN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:23:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.183.229.189 X-Trace: edtnps84 1066494194 66.183.229.189 (Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:23:14 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:23:14 MDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:6657 in article 1g31hwa.7qkspe1aly2rkN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com, Louise Bremner at dame_zumari@yahoo.com wrote on 10/18/03 3:36 AM: > Sean Holland wrote: > >> Worry about the wife. Mine works with other Japanese. Sometimes I think >> her English is worse than it was when we arrived in Canada 12 years ago. > > Ouch.... My spoken Japanese got worse after I stopped working in-house. > I think it's still deteriorating. > >> However, at that time she didn't know the word "redneck," but she >> understands and uses it appropriately now. > > And that's a good sign? Well, it's a sign of something, anyway. Maybe a sign of our neighbourhood. -- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/seanhollandmusic.htm pantsseanholland@telus.pants.net Remove pants to email me.