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From: "Elbow" <VIRUS LIKES MY MAIL@gol.com>
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Re: children in japan: difficulty with school system, culture, and language
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 02:50:12 +0900
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"Rodney Webster" <rgw_news001@knot.mine.nu> wrote in message
news:rgw_news001-C16AA6.14270901062004@news01.so-net.ne.jp...
> In article <2i25jbFi9cjjU1@uni-berlin.de>,
>  "mr.sumo.snr" <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > BTW using the expression 'haafu' around these parts i.e. this newsgroup,
> > probably goes down about as well as a fart in a spacesuit.
>
> Personally I don't find anything wrong with 'haafu' - after all, it's
> only a word, and certainly not meant to offend or degrade anyone.
>
> I'm been referring to myself as "half-German" since I was a kid, and
> always assumed that "half-something" was the standard way of referring
> to someone with mixed parentage in English.
>
> What exactly is your problem with the word, and what would you suggest
> as an alternative?
>
> -- 
> Rodney Webster
> http://knot.mine.nu/

I use 'double' for my kids and any others. Much more positive.
And as the above poster said half of what?