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.

[buhrger]

i've never understood why anyone would be willing to teach junior high. i still remember what i was like back then (stealing teachers keys, etc.), and i was one of the good students. yikes.

[nlindq.livejournal.com]

Given how seldom we've seen you of late, why do I have no difficulty whatsoever believing this? :-)

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

i loved when i student taught in junior high. i'd even be teaching it now if anyone would have hired me...

let me at Special Education Teacher to that list though... :)

what subject do you teach, anyway?

[thegreymouser.livejournal.com]

CEO - yes, I can imagine this is a stressful job as you line up for a 4 foot putt on a weekday afternoon, wondering if your stock options are enough for a new sailboat or if your need to pad the creative accounting some more to justify your 6 figure salary...

[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.