Originally Posted by
Pickles
Actually, yes. That's the concept known as communication. If, in general, your interpretation of what you said or wrote always took precedence over what the other person understood, then we have a problem. Perhaps it is something particular to the Japanese, and that would certainly explain why Mr. Kato is so inscrutable. My cat Smidgen also behaves that way, but he lives in his own little alternate furry universe anyway.
If she misunderstood what I wrote (or mistyped, as I'm known to do), then I get what you're saying and generally agree with it. However, in post #29, I clearly explained what my intentions were, and she should have understood it at that point. If she doesn't understand, that's her problem, not mine.
Originally Posted by
Pickles
Not many Japanese passed the bar exam either, so what's your point? How many foreigners took the Japanese bar exam, anyway? Three?
And the Japanese aren't exactly known for their stellar command of English, so again, what's your point?
Yeah, never did I say that Japanese are known for their stellar command of English. If someone said Japanese people suck at English, I would agree with them, and there are complaints all over this board how "so and so" went to country x and "so and so"'s complaint was that no one could speak English. And so? It's true.
laplap could may even be right that 200 out of 2 million foreigners are truly fluent... I don't really count burakumin or koreans who are 4th generation Japanese to be foreigners either.