Japanese Linguists
The strain of living in JaPaiiese-occu-; pied Manchuria was often lightened by the amusing attempts of Japanese offlc-l ials, who were bad linguists, to express themselves in Chinese and English, Sister Dorothy Rutherfurd told Canterbury accountants at a meeting. She said that a Japanese policeman one day tapped her on the shoulder and asked her name, in slowly-spoken English. Satisfled with her answer, he asked: “Where do you hang up?” She replied that she hung up her hat in the Christian Mission at Liaoyang. A friend of hers was asked to what race he belonged and replied that he belonged to the Anglo-Saxon race. ‘Anglo-Saxon. Ah, yes, Shakespeare,” replied the Japanese, who evidently haul a tasto for literature. J
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 205, 28 August 1942, Page 4
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121Japanese Linguists Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 205, 28 August 1942, Page 4
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