Re: gifts for Japanese
"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
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> necoandjeff wrote:
>
> > "Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:1gjxvec.1syfro8vgplhcN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> >
> >>Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>necoandjeff wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I wouldn't recommend sitting in any sort
> >>>>of professional job interview anywhere in the U.S. and using the words
> >>>>orient or oriental.
> >>>
> >>>This is the first I've heard of "orient" as being a word to be avoided.
> >>
> >>I assume it's an extension from the avoidance of "oriental".
> >
> >
> > For lack of having any actual point to make, he was just nitpicking the
fact
> > that I didn't capitalize Orient.
>
> Not at all. My comment stands whether you capitalize the word or not.
Then perhaps we're beginning to gain some insight into why you don't have a
job...
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