English Diary 2020
20201219 2001 NHK drama "Churasan" (The stage is Okinawa). I saw it in those days. An actress in it said like, after modernizing our old dialect or old saws might be lost very much, if so, nobody knows where it is. That's why, I hope there are a few young people want to learn them. It's like folklore. By the way, a word folklore has different meanings in each country. In Japanese the word is close to Minzoku gaku, but which means all old life styles or so. Totally learners want to know it, hearing elder than oneself. In the US, it might be like oral ones, but in Japan, Minzoku gaku (民俗学) is that all of old life is the target. The typical scholar is Yanagita Kunio or Motoori Norinaga or Minakata Kumagusu. A writer says like a famous company Netflix fired too much negative workers and then the result was super successful. (As it usual with me, it's a rough story line.) Corona and Radiation made so many terrible words (It's difficult to express it), so I decid...