Re: use of small kana on the increase?

Cindy wrote:
Phil Yff wrote:
Cindy can sometimes be abrasive but she's always witty. Your remark was
not only uncalled. It gives the impression that in a battle of wits between
the two of you, Cindy is fighting an unarmed man.

仕事の憂さ晴らしにはベンに八つ当たりするのが一番！


With regards to the phrase in question, I wouldn't expect you to do
anything so frivolous as to read manga or watch anime and thus would not
have been exposed to the references in popular culture I made in another
post. I explained that the term is more complex than simple teen
prostitution. It often involves an exclusive relationship between young
girl and much older man. The benefit to the girl need not be exclusively
monetary.

I was surprised that you waited till now to Google the term rather than
immediately as is your wont. I thought I'd check out what you were
referring to. I just tried Googling the term (setting the language to
Japanese to screen out the Chinese). It looks to me like you were
propositioned by countless sites of questionable morality

Anyway, I recommend you pick up a copy of the first and second series of
the Anime Initial D. It's quite enjoyable. A recurring theme is that
after two drift racers go all out on a race course they don't have
lingering grudges against one another. By all means cross swords with
Cindy but limit the exchanges to a battle of words without personal
insults. The insults diminish you not her so keep the fight clean.

フィルにもたしなめられてんの。　どうなっちゃってんの、ベン、プロザックでも必要かな？

Cindy;

Your posts are not getting through to most news servers. My guess, looking
at the header info, is that you are posting thru Google Groups and Google
Groups is not sending out your post with its news feed. I think it's
because your posts use base64 content transfer encoding. Google Groups
doesn't like base64, and I think it is excluding your post from the news
feed for that reason. I think it's your method of inputing the Japanese
that probably results in the base64 encoding. I can recommend a couple of
things.

First, change the way you input the Japanese. I generally write my
Japanese in a word processor and cut and paste into the newsreader. It's
good practice to ensure there are hard line breaks to keep each line length
less than 70 characters.

Second, if you want to see what is happening to your posts, cross post to
misc.test. Make sure you have a valid e-mail return address in your post
and you will get an e-mailed audit trail of what's happening to your post.

I wish I could have written the above in Japanese but computer terminology
is not my strong point.

Phil Yff
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