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The Tide Falls Away
Apr. 2nd, 2009 01:37 pmWell, as much as I wish I was able to take that poetry class, I can't say I am bothered by being done with classes on Tuesday/Thursday before lunch. It's nice to have a big chunk of time to relax before I have to go to work, rather than just 45 minutes or so. I guess I could have switched my work day - the schedule's pretty flexible as long as the shifts aren't full...but I've been working Thursday and Saturday for months! I know everybody I work with. It would be weird having a different supervisor. Mike and Rob are awesome guys. :D
Keigo will be the death of me, I swear. It's just so annoying to have all these words I've known for ages and ages and now I have to relearn them because the formal and modest expressions are completely different, unrecognizable words. I mean, orimasu=imasu=irasshaimashu? (to take a random example) WTF? What kind of language does that? (for non-Japanese speakers, those are all the same verb. Imasu is the dictionary form. I would use orimasu if I am talking about myself and being modest, and irasshaimasu if I was talking to someone above me, like a professor, and wanted to be respectful). I know we studied keigo last year, but it's like it all just fell out of my head. Gah.
Since I had Japanese today, you get a Japanese poem today! This is one of my favorite poems from the Man'yoshu. Which I really need to get a copy of.
by a frontier guard
I will think of you, love,
On evenings when the grey mist
Rises above the rushes
And chill sounds the voice
Of the wild ducks calling
(Edited because I found my book with the translation I prefer :D)
Keigo will be the death of me, I swear. It's just so annoying to have all these words I've known for ages and ages and now I have to relearn them because the formal and modest expressions are completely different, unrecognizable words. I mean, orimasu=imasu=irasshaimashu? (to take a random example) WTF? What kind of language does that? (for non-Japanese speakers, those are all the same verb. Imasu is the dictionary form. I would use orimasu if I am talking about myself and being modest, and irasshaimasu if I was talking to someone above me, like a professor, and wanted to be respectful). I know we studied keigo last year, but it's like it all just fell out of my head. Gah.
Since I had Japanese today, you get a Japanese poem today! This is one of my favorite poems from the Man'yoshu. Which I really need to get a copy of.
by a frontier guard
I will think of you, love,
On evenings when the grey mist
Rises above the rushes
And chill sounds the voice
Of the wild ducks calling
(Edited because I found my book with the translation I prefer :D)