So if the word "year" occurs in the same sentence as "1843," it might be reasonable to guess this is a date and pronounce it "eighteen forty three." If there were a decimal point before the numbers (".843"), they would need to be read differently as "eight four three." ...
Reading this word was, for me, one of those miracles of studying Japanese; I was able to pronounce the word and knew from the 報 basically what it meant in context, but I still didn’t know the exact meaning. 漢字, I forgive you. 18:45 やれやれ count – 2 times so far, I ...
It reminds me of the scene in Stanley Kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET, where a Marine colonel, standing over the mass grave of executed Vietnamese, instructs the film’s protagonist that: “Inside the heart of every Gook, there is an American waiting to get out.” Such a grotesque combinati...
Even twenty years after 1999, many of these visions have yet to materialize: “Split-second lunches, color-keyed disposable dishes,” pronounces the narrator as the Shores sit down to a meal, “all part of the instant society of tomorrow, a society ...
by Mignon Fogarty I have been deluged with questions about how to pronounce the name of the year. The two main contenders are twenty-ten and two thousand ten. Before the turn of the century, most people pronounced the years by chunking the first two