Re: addressing someone without -san or similar
From: Charles Eicher (ceicher_at_inav.net)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: 23 Jun 2004 18:17:32 -0700
In article <BCFF6B56.F950%seanholland@pants.telus.net>, Sean Holland says...
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>in article cbcag002782@drn.newsguy.com, Charles Eicher at ceicher@inav.net
>wrote on 6/23/04 9:18 AM:
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>> In article <BCFEF366.F92D%seanholland@pants.telus.net>, Sean Holland says...
>>>
>>> in article K%3Cc.50273$sj4.13355@news-server.bigpond.net.au,
>>> jim_breen@idontreadhotmail.com at jim_breen@idontreadhotmail.com wrote on
>>> 6/22/04 5:18 PM:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've heard watakushi used precisely once by Japanese people. It was
>>>> at a Girl Scout ceremony, when they were reciting their pledge.
>>>
>>> Watakushi anecdote: I was approached by a guy in later middle-age who
>>> referred to me as "gaikokujin-sama," and himself as "watakushi." He was
>>> intent on telling me how much the Japanese admired "gaikokujin-sama" (by
>>> which he apparently meant Europeans and those of European ancestry) and how
>>> he considered "gaikokujin-sama" to be superior to wareware Nipponjin.
>>> It was an extremely creepy encounter. It happened in a Tokyo hospital where
>>> I was recovering from being a decidedly inferior motorcycle operator.
>>
>> Not as creepy as this, probably:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2ew52
>>
>Yeah, the message was creepy all right:
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>Error 403
It does that sometimes. Just hit reload and it should work
the second time. Or the third time.
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