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Maitoshi
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| You'd better grease your nipples, Katie, because with that attitude, you're going to get milked pretty hard. |
C'mon, Pitarou! We expect better of you.
That being said, thanks for the visual.  |
Your welcome. Come to our place and you can see it for real. The midwife told my wife it's the best way to prepare for our little bundle of joy. |
Congratulations!
My wife did this for the first two, but didn't bother for the third. She said she was used to nursing and that things had toughened up, as it were. |
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Maitoshi
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Just thought I'd return the favor, visual for visual  |
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rxk22
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Gross and congrats Pitaro |
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marley'sghost
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Gross and congrats Pitaro |
I've never seen those two words used together, much less used together accurately and sincerely. Seconded  |
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Pitarou
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What a way to derail a thread.
Anyway, thanks guys. The due date is ... today actually! If it's a boy, we're going to call it Peter Tarou. |
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TokyoLiz
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It can't be emphasize enough how important paying national health insurance is. Some friends who are currently under SOFA (status of forces agreement) are paying Japanese national health insurance in anticipation of the end of their SOFA employment, and either retiring here, getting their permanemt residency, or Seeking local employment.
I'm paying off premiums in anticipation of applying for permanent residence. |
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nightsintodreams
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I agree with you there, all I'd say is that if you are capable then it might be better to put the money away each month in a seperate bank account, then if you stay in Japan longer than two years or so you can pay it without any issues.
If you go home within two or three years then you can probably get away without paying it and take a nice chunk of savings home. |
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Pitarou
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| I agree with you there, all I'd say is that if you are capable then it might be better to put the money away each month in a seperate bank account |
It's not hard to imagine how that might go disastrously wrong. |
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ultraman111
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Why would you want to live in Japan permanently?of birth? Are you a refugee?
Could you die there? get buried there? have you seen enough of the world? Have you been ostrasized from your country |
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rxk22
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Why would you want to live in Japan permanently?of birth? Are you a refugee?
Could you die there? get buried there? have you seen enough of the world? Have you been ostrasized from your country |
I think Katie is long scarred off by now.
But for all those who are thinking of moving to Japan "forever" those are legit questions to ponder. Am I ok with growing old and dying here? I may never see some distant friends and relatives ever again.
Also, until you work here, it is really hard to explain how it is here. |
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Dane Wessex
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 4:35 am Post subject: Re: New here, serious questions about Japan... |
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Having said that, the problem I always have with these grammar tests is that they never make it clear exactly which version of English they want you to use. For example, which of the following is correct:
a. Bob is hairier than I.
b. Bob is hairier than me.
If your answers were "a", you're correct. Saying "better than I" and "to whom" shows that you have imbibed the prescriptions of formal English grammar.
If your answers were "b", you're also correct. This is the "natural" grammar of a native English speaker, without all those ridiculous pseduo-Latinate embellishments that 18th century writers tacked on in an attempt to sound superior.
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Thanks, Pitarou! I must admit I had never heard of this: "Use a subject pronoun following state-of-being verbs such as am, are, is, was, were, appeared, seemed, etc.
Example: It is she.
Example: It was we who won the election." (http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/tis-i-or-tis-me/)
Learn something everyday!
And of course you're right about how unnatural it sounds: what kind of d-bag goes around saying "It is I"? |
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Captain Willard
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: New here, serious questions about Japan... |
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An English teacher!
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| And of course you're right about how unnatural it sounds: what kind of d-bag goes around saying "It is I"? |
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Maitoshi
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:23 am Post subject: Re: New here, serious questions about Japan... |
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An English teacher!
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| And of course you're right about how unnatural it sounds: what kind of d-bag goes around saying "It is I"? |
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Or someone who loves Shakespeare. Then again, that's kind of like six of one, half a dozen of another. |
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Pitarou
Joined: 16 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:38 am Post subject: Re: New here, serious questions about Japan... |
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An English teacher!
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| And of course you're right about how unnatural it sounds: what kind of d-bag goes around saying "It is I"? |
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Or someone who loves Shakespeare. Then again, that's kind of like six of one, half a dozen of another. |
Really?
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure Shakespeare never wrote "It is I" (in the sense of "It's me.") Like I said earlier, that kind of pseudo-Latinate affectation is from the 18th century, long after Shakespeare's time. |
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Dane Wessex
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:47 am Post subject: It is I who am the d-bag |
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Touche. And the plot thickens: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxitsmev.html
But seriously, getting back to the main point, students need to be aware that English is a very fluid language, and that prominent and well-educated people often say things that would have sounded horribly wrong some time earlier. |
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