A nutty language!

For the native English speaker, Japanese is really strange. Verbs behave like adjectives. Adjectives behave like verbs. Objects masquerade as subjects. And there are whole concepts that are simply expressed differently in Japanese than in English.

This blog is an outlet for me to muse about some of these things, as they occur to me. A reader might enjoy it because it presents ways to think about language that may never have occurred to an English speaker.

My own background, in a few words: I have been a student of the Japanese language for seventeen years. For thirteen of those years, I have been earning my keep based largely on my ability to read and speak that language.