04-06-2005, 11:00 AM
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News came out of the blue
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"The Japanese are Japanese because they speak Japanese"
An article by Roger Pulvers in The Japan Times, dated 4/3/2005, discusses the widespread belief among Japanese people that their language is uniquely difficult. Pulvers describes a conversation with a cab driver -- an argument about the comparative difficulty...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/002041.html
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