The Great Plotnik

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Ichi Nichi Juu

Studying Japanese is humbling. Studying kanji (the Chinese characters that form the bulk of Japanese writing) is humiliating. Humbling and humiliating. Fun!

The Great Plotnik has become convinced he has no Japanese or Chinese ancestors, or, if he does, they did not bother to transmit any knowledge into his genes. He does not mind feeling like a brain-dead buffoon in class, but he wishes Mrs. Matsumura would not sit down next to him before he has to answer a question in his gringo dog accent.

Sometimes you just have to do what's hard, because it's hard. Also, it's fun to order in a Japanese restaurant, and to say the Japanese word for 'every day': "ichi-nichi-juu. Ichi-nichi-juu." He he he. "Ichi-nichi juu." Plotnik is having a wonderful time, for a blithering numbskull.

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