Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps90.POSTED!3058cb5f!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Subject: Re: Japanese study... From: Sean Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Message-ID: References: <4338dd87$0$6771$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128079872.658404.103620@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1128142967.229703.100120@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1128300338.254658.256040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1128400626.932679.198800@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1128403018.626547.94520@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:35:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.183.188.128 X-Trace: edtnps90 1128407733 66.183.188.128 (Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:35:33 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:35:33 MDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:29863 On 10/3/05 10:16 PM, "declan_murphy@hotmail.com" typed: > j...@csse.monash.edu.au wrote: >> Apud declan_murphy@hotmail.com (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus: >>> I've received a couple of gaiginsama notes over the years, but also >>> when back in Iidabashi. At midnight mass in Hakodate a while back it >>> wasn't a note but in the aisle for the Eucharist. >> >> Written on the floor? Was this like the cathedral in Calcutta, which >> had special pews for untouchable Catholics? > > It was a spoken, "let the gaiginsama go ahead of you". It was probably > intended for a child behind me or something because I heard it just as > I reached the aisle. Its pretty hard to be offended by gaiginsama. > > Special pews for untouchable Catholics? Strewth. > A waitress once referred to me as 外国人様. I wish she'd put a 御 in there.