Do you think it might be that she is trying to be "helpful"?
I always imagine that your Japanese is as good as Flower's English, ie pretty damn good, just accented and with cute idiomatic things that are not quite "right" but work - or if not at least as good as student Akiko, whose English is simple but who is able to convey fairly complex concepts in simple terms.
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Date: 2008-12-18 10:31 am (UTC)I always imagine that your Japanese is as good as Flower's English, ie pretty damn good, just accented and with cute idiomatic things that are not quite "right" but work - or if not at least as good as student Akiko, whose English is simple but who is able to convey fairly complex concepts in simple terms.