Stress

[caribou_gen]

In the newspaper this morning:

Seven super-stressful jobs

- Air Traffic Controller
- CEO
- Firefighter
- Police Officer
- Taxi Driver
- Farmer
- Junior high school teacher

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[boubabe.livejournal.com]

On a different topic, you had asked me to explain better how Japanese use "yes" and "no."

English speaker:

A: You're not going to empty the garbage?
B: No, I'm not going to empty the garbage.

Japanese speaker:

A: You're not going to empty the garbage?
B: Yes, I'm not going to empty the garbage.

I think English speakers use Y and N to confirm whereas Japanese speakers use it to agree. Does that make sense?

[kelc42.livejournal.com]

Your Japanese example is logically correct, the English is not. Yet another example of English language weirdness.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

My reading would be that the question in English is an implied criticism which is inviting the answer 'Oh, alright then, I will empty it...'. The 'No' is a denial of that implicit request. The question in Japanese is then taken at face value, and given a strictly logical response.