It’s so sad that I needed to say sudden forever good-bye to my dear friend. She passed away a week ago. She was such a wonderful woman with golden heart, always kind to EVERYBODY. It is just amazing. We had so much good time, not only among friends but also in person. I’ll never forget her tenderness, friendly smile and generous goodwill. Thank you Pyrrah. You were so precious and significant in presence. I loved the word “mellow” you said when you talked about one of your daughter. I want to see her. I want to know who she is!




Pyrrah became more concentrated to her own project.


I’ve never imagined that it was the last outing with Pyrrah. She was with Tanya. She looked a bit weaker than before, but looked fit and OK. They bought a big Miura radish at the farm and asked me how to cook. We had such a intimate good time together, then said good-bye when they changed the train to Yokosuka. I did not want to say forever “sayonara” to her that day!!!

The last photo with Pyrrah, March this year.

“We’re out / to repair the future.” The poet Claudia Rankine.
Claudia Rankine

Weather


On a scrap of paper in the archive is written
I have forgotten my umbrella. Turns out
in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher,
is without. We scramble in the drought of information
held back by inside traders. Drop by drop. Face

covering? No, yes. Social distancing? Six feet
under for underlying conditions. Black.
Just us and the blues kneeling on a neck
with the full weight of a man in blue.
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds.
In extremis, I can’t breathe gives way

to asphyxiation, to giving up this world,
and then mama, called to, a call
to protest, fire, glass, say their names, say
their names, white silence equals violence,
the violence of again, a militarized police
force teargassing, bullets ricochet, and civil
unrest taking it, burning it down. Whatever
contracts keep us social compel us now
to disorder the disorder. Peace. We’re out

to repair the future. There’s an umbrella
by the door, not for yesterday but for the weather
that’s here. I say weather but I mean
a form of governing that deals out death
and names it living. I say weather but I mean
a November that won’t be held off. This time
nothing, no one forgotten. We are here for the storm
that’s storming because what’s taken matters.
 

Born in 1963 in Kingston, Jamaica, poet Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Rankine has published several collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the PEN Center USA Poetry Award, and the Forward poetry prize; Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004); and Nothing in Nature is Private (1994), which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. 

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加藤周一(知の巨人と呼ばれた)作詞になる名曲さくら横ちょう。中村恵理さんも歌ったし、最近では加来徹さんもYouTubeで歌っている。みんなで英訳してみようという話がでたので、ふるさとのあのサクラを思いながら訳してみた。Pat先生は「良い」と言ってくださった。自分では65%ぐらいのいい出来だと思う。

It took two hours to translate.

春の宵 さくらが咲くと
花ばかり さくら横ちょう
想い出す 恋の昨日(きのう)
君は もうここにいないと
ああ いつも 花の女王
ほほえんだ 夢のふるさと
春の宵 さくらが咲くと
花ばかり さくら横ちょう
会い見る時は なかろう
「その後どう」「しばらくねえ」と
言ったって
はじまらないと 心得て
花でも 見よう
春の宵 さくらが咲くと
花ばかり さくら横ちょう

この詩については、「羊の歌」にそのいきさつを書いている。 『八幡宮から学校までの道には、両側に桜が植えられていた。その桜は老木で、春には素晴らしい花をつけた。桜横町とよばれたその道には、住宅の間にまじって、いくつかの商店もあり、そこで子供たちは、鉛筆や雑記帳を買い、学校の早く終った時には、戯れながら暇をつぶしていた。(略)桜横町には、男の子も、女の子も、文房具屋のおかみさんも、自転車で通るそば屋の小僧も、郵便配達もいたのである。学校に近かったから、道玄坂などとはちがって、半ば校庭の延長のようでもあり、しかし校庭とはちがって、町の生活ともつながっていた。私は二つの世界が交り、子供と大人が同居し、未知なるものが身近かなるものに適度の刺戟をあたえるその桜横町のひとときを好んでいた。』 その横町の住宅に、同じ小学校に通う娘がいた。「大柄で、華かで、私にはかぎりなく美しいと思われたが」一度も言葉を交わしたことがなかった。「女王のようにいつも崇拝者たちを身の廻りにあつめているその娘を、私は遠くから眺め」「二人きりになることができたらどんなによいだろうか、と空想していた。」
 その桜横町を、彼は「いくさの最中に、何度か」想い出した。それを、「十六世紀フランスに流行したロンデルの韻を借りて」作ったのがこの作品である。

さくら横丁 Sakura Yokocho  the lyric translated to English by Tomoko Nago

spring night  when cherry trees blossom
flowers everywhere  cherry street

I remember the love of yesterday you are no longer here

always queen of the flowers,  smiling in the home of dreams

spring night  when cherry trees blossom
flowers everywhere  cherry street

the time will never come  to see you again
“how have you been,  it has been so long”

I know there is no use to talk this way,
I may as well look at the flowers

spring night  when cherry trees blossom
flowers everywhere  cherry street

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Yorkshire の英語、Sheffield の英語、Oxford English はわかるけど、Scottishはちょっとわかんないなぁ?新型コロナ対策で自宅待機の私は歌の練習、読書、ネットサーフィン!


Did you know that there are over 30 different English accents in England alone? And that’s not all. Would you believe there are over a hundred different English dialects accross the world? In this lesson, I will tell you about some common British accents you might hear. You’ll hear examples of Cockney, RP, Estuary, Northern, Scottish, Welsh, and many more accents. Don’t miss this opportunity to add some spice to your English pronunciation and comprehension! Take the quiz at http://www.engvid.com/learn-british-a…

Learn British accents and dialects – Cockney, RP, Northern, and more!

TRANSCRIPT Hi. I’m Gill at www.engvid.com, and today’s lesson is about accents in the U.K. So, U.K. accents and also dialects. Okay, so what’s the difference between an accent and a dialect? Right. Well, an accent, as you know, is to do with pronunciation, how you pronounce the word. Dialect is when you have a word that only people in a certain area of the country use; it’s not a national word, it’s a local word that maybe people from other parts of the country, they won’t even know what it means, so that’s dialect. Okay.

So, let’s just have a look through some of the accents that we have in the U.K. The one that you’re probably learning as you’re learning to pronounce English words is RP. “RP” stands for “Received Pronunciation”. It’s a slightly strange term. “Received” where do you receive it from? Well, maybe you receive it from your teacher. This is how to say this word. It’s a slightly strange expression, but RP, it’s usually referred to by the initials. And it’s the kind of accent you will hear if you’re watching BBC Television programs or listening to BBC Radio.

Not everybody on the BBC speaks with an RP accent. The news readers tend to be RP speakers, but not always. But the strange thing is that in this country, only a very small percentage of people do speak with this accent. Apparently, just 3%, but they tend to be people in positions of power, authority, responsibility. They probably earn a lot of money. They live in big houses. You know the idea.

So, people like the Prime Minster, at the moment David Cameron, he went to a private school, he went to university, Oxford, so people who have been to Oxford and Cambridge Universities often speak in RP, even if they didn’t speak in RP before they went to Oxford or Cambridge, they often change their accent while they are there because of the big influence of their surroundings and the people that they’re meeting.

So that’s RP. It’s a very clear accent. So, it’s probably a good idea to either learn to speak English with an RP accent, or you may be learning with an American accent, a Canadian accent, all of those accents are very clear.

Okay. And being clear is the most important thing. Okay, so moving on. RP, as I should have said, is mostly in the south of the country; London and the south. So, also “Cockney” and “Estuary English” are in the south. Okay. So, Cockney is the local London accent, and it tends to spread further out to places like Kent, Essex, other places like that. Surrey. There’s a newer version of Cockney called “Estuary English”. If you think an estuary is connected to a river, so the River Thames which flows across the country, goes quite a long way west. So anyone living along the estuary, near the river can possibly have this accent as well.

So, just to give you some examples, then, of the Cockney accent, there are different features. So, one example is the “th” sound, as you know to make a “th” sound, some of you may find it difficult anyway, “the”, when you put your tongue through your teeth, “the”, but a Cockney person may not use the “the”, they will use an “f” sound or a “v” sound instead, so the word “think”, “I think”, they would say would say instead of: “think”, they would say it like that: “fink”, “fink”, and the top teeth are on the bottom lip, “think”.

And words like “with” that end with the “th”, instead of “with”, it will be “wiv”, “wiv”, “wiv”. “Are you coming wiv me?” So that is one of the things that happens with the Cockney accent. Words like “together” would be “togever”. Okay? The number “three”, t-h-r-e-e is often pronounced “free”: “We have free people coming to dinner. Free people.”

So, there can be confusion there, because we have the word “free”, which has a meaning in itself, “free”, but if you actually mean “three”, the number three, there can be some confusion. So don’t get confused by “free people”. -“Oh, they’re free? They’re free to come?” -“No, there are three of them. Three people who are free to come.” Ah, okay.

Everyone: I’ve got mail
Cockney: I’ve got mayo
This woman is a real English lady🤗 … she’s wonderful in every way …
This lady is so british my coffee turned into tea. “Och! I fell in the loch” I really felt that 😂

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A huge oak tree in probably Oxford shire

このともだちはいつもすてきなせいかつをしているひとでせかいじゅうのかんこうちひきょうをたづねるゆうがなせいかつをしている。せかいじゅうのめずらしいうつくしいしゃしんもすきだけどころなでせいかつがげきへんしいまはごじたくのおっくすふぉーどのふうけいがけいさいされていてそれもとてもすてきです。



 いいなあいぎりす、なんというしずけさとうつくしさ。


こちらはおっくすふぉーどだいがくだ!なつかしい。

2020/4/11

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暖かい日の間に冷たい雨の日曜日、その日が今日! 珍しい人(Pyrrah and Tanya(?))が参加したから?? 寒かったのでいちご狩りは行きも帰りもチャーターバス、終了後は剣崎Walkを取りやめMore’sカプリチョーザで楽しいランチ。最後は無印でお買い物。。。Good!


それではランチへ!

More’s カプリチョーザにて

今年は順調に2回参加!

GTT Index

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メディアに追い詰められ、自分のIdentityやプライドも捨てざるを得なくなったようだ。後悔と覚悟と。家族を守るための最終決断だというけれど、後悔のない生き方ができればいいのだが、、、、。

Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Lawyers say the photos of the duchess walking her dogs and carrying her son were taken by photographers hiding in bushes and spying on her. They say she did not consent and accuse the photographers of harassment. The couple say that they are prepared to take legal action.

たくさんいる私のFB友人でこの話題を採り上げる人は皆無!こんなことに時間を使うのはムダと思っているようだ(私も!?)


・・・と思ったら、ひとりだけ反応した人がいた!

Dush-san

新聞も!

東京新聞 2020.1.28

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年末で忙しい。なのに毎日のようにお出かけの予定や、仕事(メールでの)も・・。Museの仕事が2個、大学のG先生宅訪問。そして今日は美容室。思ったより早く終わったので「忙中閑あり」龍華寺へ。コスモスが咲いてると聞いたので・・・。





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