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发帖数: 4391 | 1 >From today's Asahi Shimbun:
Pleasures and pitfalls of politeness and panache
Asahi Evening News
By ANDREW HORVAT
April 8, 2000
Some 30 years ago, when I worked as translator for the now sadly defunct
``Japan Interpreter'' magazine, my editor and mentor Tsutomu Kano drew me
aside and suggested that in future I might like to drop the particle sa from
my vocabulary when I am speaking to the political science professor who was
on our magazine's board of advisers.
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