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Jun 13, 2008 | 2:47 am
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... but you're right. It probably means that he plans to come here to die.
Jun 13, 2008 | 3:02 am
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We had a 6 hour private tour with one fellow and at the end of the tour we thanked him profusely and presented him with a nicely wrapped gift. Suddenly this fellow went from being quite affable to being quite cold and stone-faced
Jun 13, 2008 | 3:16 am
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Part of me is laughing, a much larger part is cringing tightly and painfully into a ball.
No doubt, it's already Friday evening in Japan.
No doubt, it's already Friday evening in Japan.
Jun 13, 2008 | 7:19 am
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I love you folks...........
Jun 13, 2008 | 7:36 am
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Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Aha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Aha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Jun 13, 2008 | 10:08 am
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I made a misinterpretation and I often mistype, so you got me there. You're not free of imperfections either though buddy.
Jun 13, 2008 | 10:50 am
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The personal pronoun "he" is the defauilt in the absence of any evidence of the subject's sex.
Frankly, his sex has no bearing on the matter - Why do you think it's important?
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Jun 13, 2008 | 11:03 am
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Jun 13, 2008 | 11:19 am
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And, the op's sex doesn't matter, but you think using "he" as a default is ok. Ever thought about the fact that the op was purposefully leaving the op's sex out of the posts?
Jun 13, 2008 | 11:23 am
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Jun 13, 2008 | 12:17 pm
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Hardly. It would take much more to offend me. My thoughts regarding your posts are similar to how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise. Also, I do like it as well when foreigners speak katakana like English, but that's another discussion.
Jun 13, 2008 | 12:41 pm
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Hardly. It would take much more to offend me. My thoughts regarding your posts are similar to how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise. Also, I do like it as well when foreigners speak katakana like English, but that's another discussion.
It goes much further in the way of assumptions than the 'he' used as a default in English you've picked jib71 up on.
Jun 13, 2008 | 1:14 pm
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And on the other side of the internet.......reporting from Livingston, Zambia which is across a bridge from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The folks in Zimbabwe are being either starved out by Mugabe or are being forced out of their homes violently lest they vote for the opposition. Things are dire for them, they have no food.......really......very bad. Anyway, I ventured across the bridge for a few hours and handed some food out that I purchased in Zambia....sadly the border guards took half of what I brought! Perhaps we could tip those in Japan with Zim Dollars. I saw a 50 Billion note today........better use it before it expires !
Jun 13, 2008 | 1:33 pm
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Wow, re-read what I typed and come back to me.
Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners cannot use keigo. That statement is neither crude nor offensive. 99.9999% of foreigners either don't know the concept of keigo or don't use it properly, so why would it be offensive if Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners suck at Japanese?
Jun 13, 2008 | 2:32 pm
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You might like to re-read your own post:
"how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise"
The way I read it is:
how Japanese people react to foreigners and how Japanese people react to foreigners' inability to understand keigo is 'hardly a surprise'.
You don't seem to understand the implications of your own written eigo.
And 99.9999% of all statistics are pulled out of thin air. Any source for your assertion? It's almost as if you are suggesting that out of the 2 million non-Japanese residing in Japan only about 200 or so can speak Japanese fluently. Yet another assumption.
"how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise"
The way I read it is:
how Japanese people react to foreigners and how Japanese people react to foreigners' inability to understand keigo is 'hardly a surprise'.
You don't seem to understand the implications of your own written eigo.
Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners cannot use keigo. That statement is neither crude nor offensive. 99.9999% of foreigners either don't know the concept of keigo or don't use it properly, so why would it be offensive if Japanese people are not surprised when foreigners suck at Japanese?