Shannon Jacobs wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>>significant strain for my Japanese. (For tomorrow's
>>>lesson, I'm planning to give my little speech about it...)
>>
>>All I pray is that the little speech be (a) little and (b) delivered
>>somewhere else.
> 
> Gee, thanks for the kind and encouraging words. Not.

You are more than welcome. And I'm more than bored. I read "For
tomorrow's lesson, I'm planning to give my little speech about it..." as
being "more shite here".
You really do need to learn how to write more clearly.

> It actually went better than average. At my lunchtime "rehearsal", I found
> it's possible to do the title as a kind of twisted haiku, which makes me
> think Matsuda-san is a pretty good translator...

Good for you. Good for Monsieur Matsuda too. I hope it didn't spoil his
lunch?

> Not sure what you intend by "downward linkage"

Economist's jargon, in this instance linked to the role of total factor
productivity in theories of growth.

<snip>
> Central thesis (and greatly oversimplified)
> is that copyright law is supposed to serve two parties, the creators and the
> larger society, but the law has instead been co-opted and completely
> rewritten to serve the purely monetary purposes of another group, the
> publishers.

Welcome to the marketplace.

>>Perhaps you should think about the following - "Its not what you ask
>>for, but how you ask for it" and "You only get one chance to make a
>>first impression". If the way you asked about the menu is in any way
>>similar to your communication skills here, I'm not at all surprised
>>that the staff thought there was a major problem.
> 
> Certainly not a first impression, but you can believe whatever you like. You
> certainly don't seem particularly qualified to be giving lessons. Right now
> I see no particular reason to care what rumors and gossip you like.

I don't when you first fucked up in the company cafeteria, or for the
library for that matter, but given that its at least five years (jaysus
- it may be more?) since you first merrily farted through here, its
still kinda surprising how no one appears to have forgotten or forgiven.

>>>With regards to your other post, I'm sorry to inform you that I'm
>>>distinctly independent and thick-skinned, even by American
>>>standards, and I pretty much go where I want.
>>
>>People who are thick skinned don't throw hissy fits at hapless
>>librarians, nor react with stupid comments such as "Is that because
>>you don't know what a library is, or just because you're such a
>>colossal loser? Or perhaps most likely because you're another sucker
>>for BushCo?" etc etc. If you were thick-skinned or mature, it would
>>have washed over like water off a duck's back.
> 
> At the time, I thought it was a quite appropriate reaction to an unprovoked
> rudeness from whoever it was. On the other hand, I admit the main reason was
> to fish for a reaction on the BushCo aspect, but I didn't see any other way
> to "introduce" the second sentence "appropriately". Reports from my friends
> back in the States definitely suggest that Dubya has failed to unite, to put
> it softly.

"Neither" the "person" you "addressed" the "alphabetical" turd "to", nor
"many" others "who" have "to" put "up" with "sepponia's" finest "wanker"
are from "back in the states".

Perhaps you could keep your politics to a different newsgroup. If I were
a seppo, and the only progressive material I read was yours, hell, Id
develop a sudden sympathy for the bushwackers too. And may the gods have
mercy on my collectivist soul.

> And I don't regard the librarians as hapless. More like cowardly and face
> saving--but I've never particularly liked tatemae/honne games. The American
> delusion is to seek to unify them. If the book was too hot for them to
> handle, then they should have said so.

They are just ordinary people trying to do their jobs, in a country that
happens to have different strictures to your former abode. If you don't
like "tatemae/honne games", just go home, or failing that, at least
somewhere else. As for American delusions, or American anything, write
to an American.

>>>(Oh yeah, I'm also honest to a major fault.) Maybe I've been in
>>>Japan too long?
>>
>>If you really have been in Japan as long as you say and are having
>>trouble reading アホでマヌケなアメリカ白人 then what have you been
>>wasting your time on? Maybe it is time to go home, or at least break
>>out of what appears to be a personal English language ghetto.
> 
> I didn't say, and regarding effective usage of time, what are you doing
> here?

You did say, not in this thread of course, but you have a tendency to
leave records. Kind of like lingering flatulence in an elevator so to
speak. As for my use of time, I'm here waiting for my next Guinness from
the tap to settle. We each have own priorities, and mine has about 6
liters before I can attach a new canister of gas. Until this ftp is
done, effective usage of time is a pint of black gold.

> I already commented on your motivational skills. In conclusion, I consider
> myself fortunate not to be one of your students, especially if you're a
> language instructor.

Fortunately I've never been an "instructor". Apart from a chronic lack
of motivational skills, I doubt I've have the patience.

-- 
"Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give
me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue
will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of
that sinful Old Janx Spirit"