A THOUGHT FROM “SENSEI LOWRY”
You know this. You also know that I and others have frequently explained it. We have explained that to anyone with even a passing familiarity with spoken Japanese, calling someone “sensei Smith” sounds as awkward as calling him “Smith the mister.”
We have explained this and complained about it so often that you are probably tired of hearing it and you may have concluded that in the overall scheme of things, we’re making too big a deal out of it. If some karate teacher wants to be called “sensei So-and-So,” what’s the
