11/17/08

The Words That Moved My Heart-4

This time, I want to introduce this word. "Dialect is an accessory of words. You can take off, but you may not throw it away."

I heard that it was said in one of the famous Japanese animation, but I forgot which animation it was. Does someone remembers which story and caractor said that? And if you know, who is the voice actor ( or actress) ? If you can, please write about that on the comments.

Talking about dialect, sometimes, if we don't pay attention, we sometimes use that words. For example, "Throw away trash." in Japanese is "Gomi wo suteru.(ゴミを捨てる)" However, in my home prefecture - that is Hokkaido - we use "Gomi wo nageru.(ゴミをなげる)" I always have problem with it because if we say the words " Gomi wo nageru" in common Japanese, it sounds like you are thowing trash wherever you want. I always get embarrased about it. But, this tells us that we dont have to get ashamed of using dialects.

By the way, I was so surprised that our IE-W teacher, Mr. Anderson, knew the word "Dosanko" , which means "Someone born in Hokkaido." The reason I felt so is because I thought that most of the people who lives in Honshyu doesn't know this word.

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