Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshub1.kdd1.nap.home.ne.jp!news.home.ne.jp!news-virt.s-kddi1.home.ne.jp.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: gifts for Japanese From: dame_zumari@yahoo.com (Louise Bremner) Reply-To: log.NO.SPAM.HERE@gol.com (Me) Message-ID: <1gk5mmb.15gah5fkm3wxiN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> References: <1v00d.14214$FV3.14160@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <%610d.14217$FV3.7873@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com> <2qcjbiFst5tkU1@uni-berlin.de> <2qcmltFtp9kgU3@uni-berlin.de> <2Ik0d.9604$ZC7.722@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com> <1gjxvg4.hdmqzi1kwk2h4N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> Organization: Freelance in Tokyo X-Face: %iNwIvDfZ-j|nw.k;rhu)ez';7*.)\P(4wF4k*;jazI\Hj>j?NDl."86 User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.6 (Mac OS X version 10.3.5) Lines: 26 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:30:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.165.118.30 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.ne.jp X-Trace: news-virt.s-kddi1.home.ne.jp 1095219036 203.165.118.30 (Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:30:36 JST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:30:36 JST Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18409 Craig Welch wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:01:14 GMT, dame_zumari@yahoo.com (Louise > Bremner) wrote: > > >> The term WOG means Wiley Oriental Gentleman, no? > > > >Westernised, not Wiley. > > The shortness of your reply suggests that you feel quite > authoritative about your answer. Yup. > But as with all such derivations, > there is no certainty about it at all. Most credible sources suggest > that it has nothing at all to do with Oriental gentlemen: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog > http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxwogxxx.html Ah.... that's what they want you to think.... ________________________________________________________________________ Louise Bremner (log at gol dot com) If you want a reply by e-mail, don't write to my Yahoo address!