Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: B Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Japanese study... Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:38:33 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 30 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1128407913 32165 203.216.0.91 (4 Oct 2005 06:38:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 06:38:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:29865 Sean wrote: > 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. > would that be O or GO?