more nara sensei quotes

"After this class, I don’t know how many of you will still like Japanese.”
 

“We have no chalk. Let me go…pirate some.”
 

“Hey, I found chalk…where did I find chalk? I must be good.”
 

“I’ll let you listen to a few seconds of Ainu. It’s just as incomprehensible as the other one.”
 

“Why do they say ‘achoo’ when they sneeze? Why can’t they just do a normal, unmitigated sneeze?”
 

“If you hear something like this, you should really get off the train and leave. Just run away.”
 

“If someone says, ‘How are you, Seth?’ (supposing your name is Seth) you shouldn’t go on and on about your medical conditions.”
 

“You can, if you really want to insult your company superior. And then you can just run away.”
 

“Isn’t that amazing? You’re not born in the 1970’s.”
 

“That sounds really dialectical and has warmth to it.”
 

“I don’t know if that was made up or not, but it sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?”
 

“Last time I worked in Japan, it was…many years ago.”
 

“Yeah, but we get complacent. We’re losing our edge.”
 

“And these nods are not single nods; they’re doublets, triplets, and quadruplets.”
 

“Verbal, linguistic hugging goes on.”
 

“Professors may not be interested in building up camaraderie or relationships…they fight like cats. They hate each other.”
 

“They are mya-mya people. They are made fun of because they sound like cats.”
 

“Let us begin, and let other people drizzle in, and you don’t have to help them with their homework, either.”

“You shouldn’t start thinking about the point of this; you should just enjoy the journey.”
 

“Next time I have x-y-z problem you can help me out. That’s the mafia way, isn’t it?”

“They say ‘We’ll work on it.’ That doesn’t actually mean they’re going to do anything about it, they’ll forget about it.”
 

“They brought back kanji. That was the beginning of our demise.”
 

“Don’t stop there, you can go and study all 50,000.”
 

“This is pre-kanji. This is when we were running around in loincloths.”
 

“Is he gonna feel the pain? I hope so.”
 

“If you take a person looking that way, and cut that person in half, this is more or less what it looks like.”
 

“Don’t write that in my evaluation, that ‘he did something to my childhood.’”
 

“I didn’t know there were drawers here. Did you know that?”
 

“Obviously, the man standing in front of you is not all-the-time insane.”
 

“A lot of logicians, semanticians, and philosophers made a bag of money off this. It’s not too late to get in there! Let’s get in there and make some money!”
 

“Let’s go to Tokyo, Las Vegas, Monaco. Let’s gamble.”
 

“Every time you open your mouth, you’d better watch out, you end up saying something.”
 

“If you’re an existentialist, you can say that you begin dying when you’re born. That’s really morbid.”
 

“Make sure you get these event types correctly, because they might come back and sue you. They will sue you.”
 

“Unless someone is dead, you can’t cut out the organ and give it to somebody. I mean legally.”
 

“When somebody says that, it’s never a moment. It’s more like 20 minutes.”
 

“These women had nothing to do except sit around and write poetry, that is what they did best.”
 

“You shouldn’t really stick your finger in your mouth in winter. It’s okay in summer.”
 

“The thing that you don’t know the name of, that’s the epiglottis.”
 

“Did you ever wonder about things like this as a child? No? Why not?”
 

“He’s a sneaky guy. He smokes all the time and he pops in this mint every time he comes into the examination room.”
 

“If my theory is better, I get the Nobel Prize, and you don’t. I get more money, and you don’t.”
 

“In Pittsburgh, you know where everything is, so why should you have any road signs?”
 

“Think of this as raw potatoes. When it’s finished, on the platter, you can eat it.”

“If you catch a Japanese, tie him down, and say, ‘Where is the drop in this word?’ he won’t know.”