Paul Blay wrote:
> "Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote ...
> 
>> I spent 68 minutes at the local UFJ branch his afternoon just to arrange
>> for my electricity bills to be automatically furikomied each month from
>> a different one of my accounts. It reminded me that I haven't updated my
>> personal shitlist for a while, ie those who should be amongst the first
>> lined up against the wall when the revolution comes.
>>
>> 2002-11-19 Native speakers of Japanese who write イギリス語.
> 
> What about 米語 ?

What about it? 米語、イギリス英語、シンガポール英語 etc I understand,
even アメリカンイングリシュ is kinda OK (although in written form?)、but
イギリス語 just makes me spill my pint and reach for the shitlist.

>> 2002-04-07 Users of the ra-nuki form, followed by those using "zenzen
>> tanoshii".
> 
> Really?  I thought that was 全然大丈夫.  Incidently I've looked into
> 'zenzen' in the past and it wasn't as clear cut as I thought it was.

全然大丈夫 is now everywhere. goddammit. 全然楽しい、全然安い、全然可愛
い (now what the fuck does that mean I wonder)、全然美味しい etc is
spreading like the plague. goddammit twice. Unfortunately I had
"zenzen+negative" drilled into my head in the eighties (by a lecturer
from  Waseda who left Japan in the seventies) and no amount of
deprogramming seems to have any effect on the hardware.

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