Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!grass From: grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: A bit of Japlish Message-ID: <10500036@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 16:13:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.10500036 Posted: Thu Dec 6 16:13:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 05:11:37 EST References: <142@sask.UUCP> Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #R:sask:-14200:uiucdcsb:10500036:000:1311 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!grass Dec 6 15:13:00 1984 <> The problem here seems to be that "Summer Time" <> "summertime". This sort of thing is probably especially nasty to a speaker of Japanese. Japanese, even for its syllabaries, doesn't have anything like capitalization. Nor does it use any spaces to separate words in a sentence. The fact that this can affect meaning in English has got to be a rather subtle and