So I have been spending way too much time with my nose in a grammar book in preparation for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test which is going to be a week and day from today.
Reading all these grammar points isn’t exactly interesting, but some of the sentences really show how much things have changed in the world.
For example, one sentence basically said, “If he’s not answering his phone, he must have already left.”
And it took me a minute to realize what it actually meant.
I mean, if he’s not answering his phone, what connection does that have with him leaving? Then the realization that they must have been talking about a landline sunk in. They weren’t talking about someone calling a cellphone, but the last time I actually called a landline is not an event I can clearly remember. Especially in Japan.
Really makes me wonder how old these sentences are, or who is writing them.
