"Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message
news:bf66nd$b80$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> On 7/17/2003 7:31 PM, masayuki yoshida wrote:
> > "Scott Reynolds" <sar@gol.com> wrote in message
> > news:berj02$pf7$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp...
> >
> >>I'd just like to spread the word about this fine product:
> >>
> >>http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/news/010308.html
> >
> > The sound of 'fappy' is good.  I have once read an article where a psychologist said
> > that Japanese p-sounds 'pa-pi-pu-pe-po' and 'pya-pyi-pyu-pye-pyo' should easily
stick in
> > Japanese memory.  So mu guess is that the manufacture should have known a strong
effect
> > of the 'pyi' sound.
>
> An ad I saw in the train says its a contraction formed from "fax" and
> "happy."

I prefer 'fuppy' to 'fappy'.

Masayuki