When I talk about the real meaning of a past-tense sentence,
I use this sentence: "My father was a police man."
This sentence has two or more meanings:
1) 父はかって(その時)警察官でした。
**This is what teachers normally teach to their students, and
2) 今は父は警官でない
(その他の仕事をしている/定年退職した/他界した)etc.
**This is another meaning of this sentence.
I can conclude that this sentence has the two meaning.
Every thing has two sides to it.
(物事には、2つの面があります(裏表・陰陽))
When we listen to or read English, we have to
use the way of facet-eye thinking(複眼思考).
To have this pattern of thinking, we have to be more flexible
way of thinking.
This day I had three English lessons and I stressed the
importance of having this way of thinking when they
read or listen to English.
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Now two cities are candidates for the site of the 2016 Olympic
Games, as you know: Fukuoka and Tokyo.
By the end of this August, either of them will be
appointed as the international candidate city for the
Olympic. I hope that it will be Tokyo.
If it will be Tokyo, this will add a good justification to
the reason I have to move to Tokyo.
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This evening, I had a jog & walk about 5km.
While jogging, I was thinking how to address my
current problems I had related to the life in Iizuka.
This night I joined a party held at Masaji Art.
I found a good lady there. I began to talk to her
and we discussed some things about 論理学 for a long time.
She is from 幸袋, working at a hospital (whose head is one
of my acquaintances). While talking, we found that she
is a friend and a junior of my former students.
She finished the same junior high as Ms. M.K did.
I hope that she will keep in touch with me.
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Ken Suetsugu