Michael,
Unless you are communicating with your boss, your Japanese is far to formal
for the context implied. I doubt many people would use ~masu form in a
keitai message, unless it was a first message sent as an introduction.
However, your corrections of the noun for drinking and addition of the
question particle do improve the Japanese....
on 01.9.26 6:15 AM, Michael Turner at leap@gol.com wrote:
> Slightly overstating your case with that example, aren't you?
>
> I'd have it more like this:
>
> Where are you going now? I'm going out for a drink.
> どこに行きますか。読みに行きます。
>
> Where you going? Out for a drink..
> どこに行く？ 飲みに行く。
>
> Japanese is briefer, I'll give you that, but informal
> language is briefer in different ways for the two
> languages.
--
Eric Hildum
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Received on Wed Sep 26 20:16:48 2001