Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EF07D41.5080804@attb.com> From: Cindy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.english.usage,alt.usage.english,sci.lang,sci.lang.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Looking for a word (maybe Japanese, not PC) References: <1725959d.0306180625.4527e23e@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.238.126.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1055948099 12.238.126.211 (Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:54:59 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:54:59 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:54:59 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:1209 Kernel Sandas wrote: > You are walking down the street and see a girl with a perfect body > and beautiful hair just ahead of you. You think she must be very > good looking and want to see her face. You think about hurrying on > ahead and sneaking a look back, or somehow making her turn round so > you can see her face. Anyway, somehow you manage to get a look at > her face and it turns out to be very plain or downright ugly. > > Someone once told me there was a word in Japanese for this situation. > If anyone knows the word or an english equivalent, please let me know. What is your objective for this? Do you want to insult the girl? If you are a sensible person, you say "Excuse me" which is "Shitsurei shimashita" in Japanese.