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Originally Posted by masaegu
With all these clues, I don't need to translate the phrase for you now, do I? I'd rather have you do it and I can check it later on.
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I don't know about that - I can be pretty dense.
Plus you might have skipped over the part where I said I don't know any Japanese.
First, from what you've said, I'm now thinking that it was Čapek talking about the groundbreaking schooling, rather than the speaker telling other people about how great it was. I kind of thought that from the beginning, but then I thought it might also make sense the other way.
So.. the speaker once asked Čapek if his friend was dead, and he said something like "That's my understanding"? Implying that this is suspicious in retrospect because you'd think he would know if his greatly esteemed friend was dead or not? I still feel like I'm missing something here. :/
Is the rest of it essentially right? What is it that you can't buy with money?
Thanks very much for your help!