January 5, 2004
Quote of the Day
No, Japanese is not the language of the infinite. Japanese is not even vague. The people of Nissan and Sony and Toyota did not get where they are today by wafting incense back and forth. The Japanese speak and write to each other like other literate peoples do. If Japanese is "unique," that is because it possesses vocabulary and grammatical constuctions and idioms that occur in no other language - but of course that is what makes all languages unique.
Jay Rubin
Gone Fishin': New Angles on Perennial Problems (Power Japanese), pp15-16
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