That great and distinguished work of great scholar****p "How to Talk
Dirty in Japanese and English" has just been revised and updated and
the new edition is out today and is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891129
This work is the result of years of scholarly research in which two
academic investigators interviewed the most foul-mouthed persons they
could find in order to collect the most obscene commonly used
expressions in either language.
This book is must reading for anybody who wants to cuss-out somebody
in either language. More im****tantly, it is required reading for any
student of either language, because the expressions in this book are
not to be found in any other book. Some of the expressions in this
book are so secret that foreigners who have been living in Japan for
years and think that they are fluent, do not know what they mean, and
yet all real Japanese understand them.
This is a bi-lingual book, first published in 2006. Every word and
phrase in either language is converted into an equivalent term on the
facing page in the other language.
A controversy has arisen because in 2007 an imitation work entitled
"Dirty Japanese" was published by another Berkeley student. The
problem is that Kinokuniya Book Store carries "Dirty Japanese" but
refuses to carry "How to Talk Dirty in Japanese and English". When
asked about this the Kinokuniya manager explained that the "Dirty
Japanese" just contains common colloquial terms that the Japanese
girlfriend of the American author told him, but "How to Talk Dirty in
Japanese and English" contains the secret and deeply obscene terms
that non-Japanese outsiders are never supposed to know. Thus, no
consideration can be given to requests that Kinokuniya carry "How to
Talk Dirty in Japanese and English".
Sam Sloan
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