My nickname is “Lazy Cat,” and I like it very much mainly because cats are positive role models. Many human beings are busy, making war, making nuclear power plants, but cats are lazy, doing nothing ethically or ecologically wrong.
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Last day of the Fukushima Speaking
Tour 2012 at San Francisco Airport
( PHOTO: Rachel Johnson,
Ecological Options Network )
When I was in grade school, adults around me believed that the English language didn’t have any deferential usage. They would say, “All you have to do is to add ‘please’ to your request.” It didn’t take much time to realize that they were mistaken. All the English-speaking people I made friends with were much politer than we were when they spoke to a friend or a family member: “Could I have a little more ice cream?” And no respectable husband would ever speak to his wife with such a limited vocabulary as; “Drinks,” “Meal,” or “Bath.” So I tried to find a book on deferential usage or politeness in English, but in vain. The studies on politeness in English ( and its inclusion in TESOL ) didn’t start until the early 1970s ( you can guess how old I am from this ). Later on, I found that letter-writing manuals gave us a lot of clues for politeness. All this is a thing of the past, and now we have excellent books like: 掃揷梖巕乮懠乯亀塸岅偺僜乕僔儍儖僗僉儖亁乮戝廋娰乯
Lazy Cat and Akita:
I was born and raised in Tokyo, and at age 25 I joined AU. Since then, I’ve been living in Akita City. I love snow country and almost everything connected with it. Tokyo is a tropical city, and it’s way too hot for a thinker ( more of a brooder ) like me. In Tokyo I wasted nearly 3 hours every day just to go to school, but here in Akita it’s just 10 minutes’ walk from my house.
Lazy Cat’s Major:
I was seriously interested in English when the Vietnam War was still very much in the news and a lot of American citizens came to Japan for pacifist causes. The friendship with those people greatly inspired me. Since then, I have been studying the relationships between culture and politics. Last year, I edited a collection of academic papers on this topic, and it’ll soon be available at bookstores and on the internet: 懞忋搶乮曇乯亀椻愴偲傾儊儕僇丂攅尃崙壠偺暥壔憰抲亁乮椪愳彂揦乯丂
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Semi-formal outfit in the Gulf;
again, lucky-cat posture
TESOL ( Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages ) was established in this country when the diplomatic relationship with Britain was by far the most important, but after WWII we shifted our attention to American English. Politics certainly plays an important role in language education, and, along with the language itself, we will study a little bit about the political history of English teaching in Japan as minimal essentials for future teachers of English.
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