Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr29.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!9a2493fe!not-for-mail From: "necoandjeff" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <7Ig4d.2441$p01.864@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> <7Si4d.2463$Nh1.276@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> <8Uj4d.24273$do5.2723@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com> <2recacF194a02U1@uni-berlin.de> Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?B?UmU6IBskQiEpGyhC?= Lines: 30 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.173.41.120 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr29.news.prodigy.com 1095892463 ST000 64.173.41.120 (Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:34:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:34:23 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: F[OGR\_E@B^SSVDYLJJ\OPLI[B]NQHMHCIXNMRQIMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD@EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN@C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:34:23 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18699 "Haluk Skywalker" wrote in message news:2recacF194a02U1@uni-berlin.de... > "necoandjeff" wrote in message > news:8Uj4d.24273$do5.2723@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com... > > "Musashi" wrote in message > > news:NMj4d.2471$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? Sorry, but you're a lifetime member of the club regardless of where you happen to be, and you can't quit. Most Japanese, excluding perhaps those who have lived abroad for a long period of time, use the word gaijin to refer to anyone who isn't Japanese (and most likely non-Asian, but don't ask me to define the word Asian), and they do it even when they are actually the foreigner and they're referring to the locals. Jeff