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!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Kaiya's katakana Japanese Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:39:01 +0900 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3F67D755.8000402@hotmail.com> References: <6afefaef.0309111744.11efb0d6@posting.google.com> <3f67b788$1_1@news.uncensored-news.com> <1g1ffyj.x0u8f11ubgk00N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1063769895 26831142 202.215.53.66 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:5440 Louise Bremner wrote: > Rindler Sigurd wrote: >>Does it have a different meaning compared to 'gaijin'... which is the proper >>romanized term for foreigner, outsider, etc.? >>Goggle: 2500 hits for 'gaigin' / 1,600,000 hits for 'gaijin' > > Wow! That many? I never thought to goggle it, but 1,600,000 does seem surprising. -- "Having tried intelligence to win the war on terrorism and achieved mixed results - bad and worse - the defense department has decided to go the other way and give stupidity a chance." - Alan Abelson