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From: "Haluk Skywalker" <halukakaNOSPAM@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ？
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:23:10 +0300
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"necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote in message 
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> "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:NMj4d.2471$wp1.689@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com...
>
>> No no we are talking about only in Japan.
>> That's why this is all about 外国人 and 英語。
>
> Ah, but we established in a different thread that 外人 and probably even 
> 外
> 国人 means "not Japanese" regardless of where you happen to be, didn't we?

Wait a minute. Now I'm in Turkey and I believe Japanese are gaijin here. Or 
am I wrong? Am I still gaijin? I moved all the way back here to be a *normal 
person* again and you're telling me I'm still gaijin?

> Anyway, I think the Japanese habit of assuming "non-Japanese" speak 
> English
> applies equally both in Japan and elsewhere, don't you think?