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From: grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: A bit of Japlish
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 16:13:00 EST
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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