Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.tutrp.tut.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.ac.jp!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news-sv.sinet!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!tky01nn01fe0.sonytelecom.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!news-gw1.ocn.ad.jp!news-gw2.ocn.ad.jp!nd-tk001.ocn.ad.jp!210.235.48.70.MISMATCH!news.accsnet.ne.jp!not-for-mail From: "Danny Wilde" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Is it just me... Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:48:49 +0900 Organization: Academic New Town Community Cable Service Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.247.accsnet.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="windows-1252"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ml.accsnet.ne.jp 1108698528 24978 202.220.247.75 (18 Feb 2005 03:48:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.accsnet.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:48:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:25323 "CL" wrote in message news:cv3mvn$sg1$1@nnrp.gol.com... > > Well, now that we've flogged that puppy for week, let's move on to the > musical question "Are Japanese advertising people just stupid or are > they _really_ different?" One of my pet peeves is how art directors > like to think that music conjures images separate from what the music is > actually about. This leads to some interesting juxtapositions,which, I > am informed, means that I do not possess enough Wa in my heart to fully > appreciate. Most Japanese people don't understand English songs.