Comments on: Veronica Mars loves Vanilla Ice Cream http://talesfromjapan.com/2009/03/15/veronica-vanilla/ Stories of our travails in Tokyo Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:27:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://talesfromjapan.com/2009/03/15/veronica-vanilla/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Brian Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:17:44 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=472#comment-91 Mags, Let me put this into words I think you can understand. First, let me quote you a little Shakespeare...I know how that can calm you down. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Secondly, yes I realize that its the queen who says that in Hamlet. Third, if I were half the pseudo-intellectual you charge me as attempting to be, I would quote something from Joyce. But since you are the only person I have ever met who has been able to wade through that you will have to settle for the Bard. Honestly, I had Veronica ready so she got posted. I am also more likely to complete my writing requests if I post them here. Lastly, since you represent at least 20% of my readership, shouldn't I be writing for you? Mags,
Let me put this into words I think you can understand. First, let me quote you a little Shakespeare…I know how that can calm you down. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Secondly, yes I realize that its the queen who says that in Hamlet. Third, if I were half the pseudo-intellectual you charge me as attempting to be, I would quote something from Joyce. But since you are the only person I have ever met who has been able to wade through that you will have to settle for the Bard.

Honestly, I had Veronica ready so she got posted. I am also more likely to complete my writing requests if I post them here.

Lastly, since you represent at least 20% of my readership, shouldn’t I be writing for you?

]]> By: margaret http://talesfromjapan.com/2009/03/15/veronica-vanilla/comment-page-1/#comment-90 margaret Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:38:02 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=472#comment-90 An anonymous poster writes: " And how would one go about getting Spanish- speakers to differentiate and produce short i and long e sounds- to help them not be the focus of childish laughter when trying to say, "SHEET of paper," or, "lovely BEACH?" "Or how about this- how can I direct Cambodian students to do anything involving lip movement or teeth placement to form initial v, f, b, and p sounds?" - signed Anonymous poster An anonymous poster writes:

” And how would one go about getting Spanish- speakers to differentiate and produce short i and long e sounds- to help them not be the focus of childish laughter when trying to say, “SHEET of paper,” or, “lovely BEACH?”

“Or how about this- how can I direct Cambodian students to do anything involving lip movement or teeth placement to form initial v, f, b, and p sounds?”
- signed Anonymous poster

]]> By: margaret http://talesfromjapan.com/2009/03/15/veronica-vanilla/comment-page-1/#comment-89 margaret Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:27:58 +0000 http://talesfromjapan.com/?p=472#comment-89 All right, what are you trying to do- separate the boring blogoshpere commentors- say, me, for example- from the witty, caustic and sardonic responders, like Gary, Pat and Curt? I recognize where this "bilingual blog thread" is heading- eventually you will divide your site into,"place for clever repartee," and "wierdy wordy nerds." Believe you me- it is not going to work Brian Walker! I am not going to respond to this. And nobody else is, either- they are waiting for your next bucolic literary rendering of life in the Orient, or your sarcastic musings on "American in Tokyo." All right, what are you trying to do- separate the boring blogoshpere commentors- say, me, for example- from the witty, caustic and sardonic responders, like Gary, Pat and Curt? I recognize where this “bilingual blog thread” is heading- eventually you will divide your site into,”place for clever repartee,” and “wierdy wordy nerds.”

Believe you me- it is not going to work Brian Walker! I am not going to respond to this. And nobody else is, either- they are waiting for your next bucolic literary rendering of life in the Orient, or your sarcastic musings on “American in Tokyo.”

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