Japanese is just a language | The Japan TimesThe other day in English class I shocked a student by supplying her with a translation of the Japanese proverb “Even monkeys fall from trees.” (The English-language proverb I used for the translation was “Even Homer sometimes nods.”) The student seemed amazed that English had proverbs; she had believed them to be a unique feature of the Japanese language. I once got the same reaction from a studen
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