Is Japanese declining in “the age of English“? I’m skeptical. People have been complaining about linguistic decay since the beginning to time.
While the intellectual quality of books in libraries, articles on the net and everything written in Japanese is becoming worse and worse, productions in English in contrast would appear to be becoming richer and [...]
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Posts so tagged contain an unmarked literary allusion of some kind. (“Literary” sensu lato.) The first readers who correctly identify these allusions will receive as a prize a packet of fresh tree bark. Blogroll