OT: Just another article of a Nipon hater...

I was looking for some good Japanese textbooks to help in my study of
Nihonggo when I came across this article. I was almost tempted to
send the guy a dispute but thought better of it since it would be a
waste of my time to convince him otherwise. However I am posting it
here just to show how narrow minded some people are and to alleviate
the pounding in my head...

Here's the link if anyone is interested...

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

Grace I think its a joke...I found it too a long time ago and posted a
link at the miburo list...read the end of the article..the most
devoted students of Japanese at the univ. where I got my undergrad
degree were passing it around and even wrote the link on the board
(one of my class sessions was held in a foreign language
building)...anyways those students thought it was a riot and they
majored in Japanese. Don't worry about it ^_^

--- In SHQ@yahoogroups.com, "Grace Battista" wrote:
> I was looking for some good Japanese textbooks to help in my study of
> Nihonggo when I came across this article. I was almost tempted to
> send the guy a dispute but thought better of it since it would be a
> waste of my time to convince him otherwise. However I am posting it
> here just to show how narrow minded some people are and to alleviate
> the pounding in my head...
>
> Here's the link if anyone is interested...
>
> http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

At the very bottom, it says:

Author's Note:This whole essay, although sprinkled with truisms here and
there, is a joke and should be taken like one. I'm actually a Japanese major
myself, and even if I've given it a bit of a hard time, I love the Japanese
language, and I think everyone should give it a try.

You should just be ready for a whole lot of pain.

HAPPY LANGUAGE LEARNING!

--

Even so, my initial reaction was "Oh shut up." And this ass calls himself a
Japanese major. Such blatant disrespect...

--m.

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