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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Lookalike Japanese, Mispronunciations
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 21:01:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 21:01:55 1985
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Reply-To: das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: Proper Nouns, Idioms

In article <2547@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
>Re "Juki-o oboete iru" deciphered as "I teach at a private academy":
>
>"Teach" is oshiete. Oboeru means to try to learn.
[More lines making the point that "oboeru" relates to remembering, not teaching]

Now I'm confused -- how did "oboete iru" get into the conversation?  Sure, it
means "remember", not "teach", but neither Mark Edwards' original message nor
my quotation of it contained that verb.  For that matter, in the message where
you essayed a translation of his sentence, you quoted the verb as "oshiete iru"
and responded as if that were that verb.  So why the change?  Too many holiday
parties, maybe? :-)

-- David Smallberg, das@locus.ucla.edu, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das