On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:04:20 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:25:42 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>
>>> Danny Wilde wrote:
>>>> "Edward Mills" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:1rc9b4yw1ymyz$.l5fs7xp1d5xl.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:27:40 +0900, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Back in 1987, it was TV and videos which first taught me
>>>>>> conversational Japanese.
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean like the old guy that does the voiceovers for those TBS
>>>>> retardathons? You know the guy who talks like a mix between an old
>>>>> woman having a massive orgasm and a high school girl trying to
>>>>> sound like a five year old girl?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know why people here want to insult Japanese TV so much and
>>>> say how stupid the people on Japanese TV are.
>>>
>>> It's a fairly typical phenomenon among the not-so-deep thinkers
>>> among us, actually. When in your own country, things are just stupid
>>> and taken for granted, but when you are in Japan and you see
>>> something stupid, rather than recall the fact that there are quite
>>> likely things that are just as stupid back in your home country, it
>>> becomes "that stupid Japanese [thing]," which is somehow unique to
>>> the Japanese.
>>
>> I have no access to American television programming. Nor do I want it.
>> If I did have it, I would probably have about the same overall opinion
>> of it that I do Japanese programming.
>>
>> I never feel a need to balance my criticisms of Japanese television by
>> blasting American television at the same time. I don't have American
>> programming, so it is entirely irrelevant. When something on
>> television in my home gets my dander up, I don't tell myself "Well, it
>> sucks back home, too".
>
>Nor do you need to. I'm just pointing out the fact that TV sucking at home
>is generally referred to as "TV sucks" whereas TV sucking in Japan is
>generally referred to (by foreigners) as "Japanese TV sucks" which, intended
>or not, implies that Japanese TV sucks more than non-Japanese TV.

I understand.

But since Japanese TV is the only TV in my house,it is the only TV I
know for certain sucks. So I say "Japanese TV sucks", rather than "TV
sucks".





--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College