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.

> 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!

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?

> 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.

> > 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.

> 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
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