"John R. Yamamoto- Wilson" <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote in message news:baslio$1lri$1@kanna.cc.sophia.ac.jp...
> Kaz wrote:
> 
> > what does the ellipsis "BYJW" mean?
> 
> Beautiful young Japanese wife. I'd never heard it either until I started
> following postings to the fj.life.in-japan newsgroup.

So, ugly old Japanese wife would be UOJW?  Big fat Sepponian wife
would be BFSW?

> > To those readers in alt.history, sorry I forgot to trim it. From next
> > time, I will do so.
> 
> I'll bet they were just dying to know, but didn't like to ask!

No, I wrote so because you passed the buck to me in your other
posting.

> From your other posting:
> 
> > If your wife were Osakan, I guess she is
> > probably thinking you as a sort of her pet, a sort of servant, or
> > money making machine...... some like that.
> 
> Nothing like that, I'm glad to say! I've noticed she treats me quite
> differently from the way she treats our daughter's rabbits, she looks after
> me wonderfully, and she prefers to have me at home than pack me off to work!
> This is all quite natural, because I am so nice and pleasant to be with. ;-)
> My daughter, at age five, still sometimes seems to think that both I and her
> mother are her servants, though. Perhaps my wife has inherited some kind of
> recessive Osakan gene from one of her ancestors that's suddenly sprung to
> life in our child?

It's not a recessive, it's a dominant gene. I may take back what I
said in my last posting like "you are not racist" if you define the
Kinai gene as recessive. You are showing some sort of contempt against
Osakans like the one that wanking tokyojaps have. If you analyze the
gene having the inheritance of female-dominance as recessive, all you
British would be the ones having the recessive genes because you adore
the Queen. And now, I guess your daughter has inherited your British
gene.

> > But sorry, Takarazuka you're living is kinda Kobe type city that has
> > silly women-despising operetta things which mimic the Western things
> > as well as Kobe.
> 
> You are confused. I live in Saitama.

I was misthinking you as other guy.

> > > If you know your history you
> > > will know that during the 18th century the Catholic Irish were denied
> the
> > > right to an education, to own property, even to eat properly.
> >
> > What do you mean "your history"? Am I Celt?
> 
> Kaz, it's an aspect (admittedly a rather irritating aspect) of the English
> language that the word "your" doesn't always *mean* "your". My meaning here
> was something like, "If you are good at history", or "If you are
> well-informed about matters of history". I can see that could cause
> confusion!
> 
> > I really
> > don't understand why you accuse me of such imperial tokyojap's war
> > charges while you claim that you are not racist because of your family
> > line....
> 
> Oh, I'm not accusing you of anything, merely pointing out that Britain was
> not the last country to perpetrate atrocities of that kind, as you claimed.
> Nor am I saying that my family line makes me not racist, simply that I am
> not of the white supremacist stock that you imagined.

But your slip of the tongue often makes me nervous, though.

> > Anyway, It's nice to be aware that you are not one of those
> > colonialist racists by glimpsing your cultural background. I peel off
> > what I labelled you as a racist. Sorry for giving you such emotional
> > upset of being labelled as a racist.
> 
> Thanks, Kaz. I don't know that I can apologise in quite the same way - that
> was pretty objectionable language that you and Supertech got into there, and
> I can't pretend otherwise - but I hope you understand now that my comments
> really were about that use of language, not about you or Supertech as
> people. You are pretty wild with your words, and there was a time back there

But you are also sarcastically wild with your words.

> when I figured if I ever heard you were within five hundred yards of me I'd
> feel that was too close, but now I feel if you dropped in at my local
> izakaya I'd cheerfully down a beer with you.
> 
> Now, the *real* success would be if Supertech could join us!
> 
> --
> John
> http://rarebooksinjapan.com
>