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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Japanese "9fans" mailing list established.
Date: Fri,  5 Nov 2004 02:39:44 +0100
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> If we can force Rob to speak/write Japanese, it's the best way for
> Japanese.

you have no idea of the difficulty of the problem.  english is easy to
learn.  japanese takes ~5 times as long to learn as any 'european'
language and THAT is before your come to the the writing:

    - romaji
    - hiragana
    - katakana
    - kanji 800/2000/6000

and then there's technical japanese.

not to mention all the business protocol.