English versus Japanese

English versus Japanese

English differs from Japanese in that in the former, if a sentence is in the present tense and the subject is third person singular, the verb is affixed with s or es. In the latter, however, it is to whom  one speaks that makes the difference. The language used to a male interlocutor is different from that used to a female one. If you want to say : “I tried to pick your pocket” to a man, you say Isi sakumukuraba because man puts his money in his pocket. If, however, I want to convey the same idea to my mother, who puts her money in a cloth sheath and puts it on her bosom, in the chest, I would say … no, you know it.  Languages change, so does this language. As Women no longer put their money in the chest, but in the hand bag, to express the idea to a woman nowadays, you say Isitasmukuraba.

by: Drs.M.Nababan, M.Hum