人に会う機会が減れば減るほど、自分の犬が好きになる。The less people I meet , the more I like my dog.
昨日の英語の教科書で、「たくさんの人に会えば会うほど、自分の犬が好きになる。The more people I meet , the more I like my dog.」というジョークを知りました。歳を重ねていけばいくほど、嫌な人に会うことも増えるかもしれません。そんなときに自分の犬がいとおしくなるということ。愛犬は決してあなたを欺いたりしないからです。
私が働いているとき、いつもたくさんの人に会い、このジョークの通りだなと思っていました。今は、退職後の毎日、出会う人の数は減り続けています、でも、やはり、いや昔以上に我が愛犬が好きでたまりません。私の考えでは、要するに、どんなときでも、コンパニオンアニマルが我々人間をいかに引き付けるかということでしょうね。
おまけ1:たくさんの人に会えば会うほど、自分のコンピューターが好きになる。
おまけ2:顔をなめてくれる子犬に勝る精神科医はこの世にはいない。
How do you do? My name is Mariko.
It is my first time writing in this community.
Shiro-san, your writing is very interesting for me.
I am like a chick compare to you, but if you and
your members don't mind, I'd like to write in this
communty occasionaly.
I live in Canada now, but this January, I was back to
Osaka visiting my family. Somehow, I was very
interested in going Arima. I took trains and enjoyed
scenery and hot-spring! I wish I and my husband
could live place like there someday.
I hope your creation in Arima Park is OK.
PS. The joke about people and dog is so good.
I sometimes feel that way too.
Thank you for your comment, Mariko. I just have found it after I put a comment on your community. The way you want to go in your community seems very similar with my way on this community.
Let's enjoy together in yours and mines.
Canada is very famous for the natural scenery. Please post some photos on our flower party if possible.
See you again.
My name is Don. This is my first time to write a comment on mixi.
I had had an idea that I liked learning English the best for a long time. But now I realize what I love the most is communicating with people in English, and that makes learning English fun. So I have found it fascinating that we can communicate and exchange our idea in English via the Internet. And it surely expands my world!
I am 36 years old, and one of my mottoes is to keep enjoying my life without regard to age. Reading diaries and comments of Shiro-san and others stimulates me very much.
I am grateful that I have the Internet available and have a chance to see you all.
I am looking forward to communicating with you more in this community. :)
I have found that women love emoticons and old men don't use them. This trend is clear in this community and diaries in mixi.
I can' t find quite reasons why it happens. Those are my guess.
It may indicate that women are more emotional and old men are more logical.
How about young men? Do they use emoticons against their rules because they need women's love??.
It may simply indicate that women are more fashinable and old men are out of fashion.
"out of fashion" means "流行から外れている” in Japanese for me, but I found in a dictionary that it means "すたれている”.
Both could be true.
What do you think, ladies?
The reason why I used an emoticon :) in my English comment is that I have just learned this ‘English’ emoticon and I simply wanted to use it. It is like you use a word which you have just learned in your English conversation.
Emoticons used by people abroad are often different from the ones that we see in Japanese sentences on the web.
As for an emoticon in my Japanese comment, I decided to use it to express my feeling.
If I wrote, ‘ よろしくお願いします‘ only, it could seem like I was saying with a bow.
‘ よろしくお願いします。<m(__)m>’ .
And I wanted it to be looked that I was saying with a big smile.
I thought that would express my feeling and character better.
I have been thinking about why I like to use emotions, and maybe that is because I would not like anyone to misunderstand what I mean.
For me, emoticons are one of the ways to make my comments express what I want to tell exactly.
However, I think TPO is very important. This ‘tool’ is supposed to be used in informal situation.
And also, using too many emotions could seem childish. In other word, not using any emoticons can show your maturity.
So I do not think Shiro-san and others who do not use any emoticons are ‘out of fashion’.
I think it is ‘maturity’.
In my humble opinion, young men, especially what I call ‘cyber-men’, seems to love using emoticons rather than women. And they also seems to love not only use them, but also make them.
I often see many kinds of creative emoticons, and I find them amazing!