"Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message news:vdu7l05mp90di5mkl3mdc83dcbal13ig41@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:54:23 GMT, "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> >
> >"Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message
> >news:uf24l0h6tj6qo44cpg6o9ua0h6fc9gtp2e@4ax.com...
> >> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:25:56 GMT, "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp>
> >> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >Chill out Jeff.
> >> >My comment was the relationship between "gaikokujin" and "English".
> >> >No one can deny that in practice English is the defacto Global language.
> >> >But there are people who disagree, and feel that French, Spanish should
> >> >be the "global language".
> >> >At the expense of being redundant, 外国人 includes plenty of people
> >> >from African and South American countries, who do not speak English.
> >> >So...perhaps the gaikokujin in the definition of this NG ought to be
> >> >corrected.
> >>
> >> Chill out yourself. Paul's comment was meant to make fun of a
> >> stereotyped perception many Japanese hold regarding gaigins.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Is your name Jeff???
> 
> Don't try blindsiding me with those trick questions.
> 

You must be a Clintonite.
Define "name".

> >I don't see Paul's comment as "making fun" of anybody.
> >Does anyone else?
> 
> You mean a particular anybody or a more general sort of anybody?
> 

It has been established already that I should have said "anything" rather than "anybody".