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From: "Matt" <acaesar@nyc.nospam.rr.com>
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"Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3ED2DB09.1000605@hotmail.com...
> Matt wrote:
> > "Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
> > news:baufgv020sq@drn.newsguy.com...
> >
> >>I was in a guitar shop with a friend in ochanomizu on the 2nd floor of
an
> >
> > old
> >
> >>building. The guitars where swinging like the pendulum in a grand father
> >
> > clock.
> >
> >>The staff were joking and pretending to hide under a tiny table. I
learnt
> >
> > the
> >
> >>term 'funeniyoi', sea sick.
> >
> > Don't you mean "fune ni yowai?"
>
> 船酔い（ふなよい）kameraden
>
> I was sitting in my office throughout the earthquake and didn't feel a
> thing - didn't even know about it until talking to Brett on the phone a
> while later.

Ah, thanks!

I wasn't really thinking in the first place anyway, "fune ni yowai" implies
to me more of a general inability to ride boats now that I think about
it...the person is 'weak.'  The phrase shows up in my Wordtank, but as an
example for "yowai."  I wasn't paying attention either, apparently.

--
Matt